Sentences with phrase «think human consciousness»

I don't believe in little green aliens but I don't think human consciousness evolved.

Not exact matches

The evidence of cosmology and physics and biochemistry and genetics and human consciousness, I think, pointed in the direction of a creator.

We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.

So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

I think if for millions of years people worshipped a rock, the investment of powerful, human energy would endow that rock with certain qualities, even a certain consciousness.

With humans emerged human thought and consciousness.

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

The two natural modes of human thought, according to Bruner, are paradigmatic thought (logico - scientific thinking that rests on description, explanation and verification) and narrative thought that weaves together action and consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the human person.

Without the process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?

To return to the topic of the spaciness of mind, I suggest that process thought must either give an account of the magnitude, locus, and external detectability of the stream of human consciousness, revert to Cartesianism, or cease believing in consciousness altogether.

(3) Nevertheless, it may seem that in process thought there are other types of extended but externally undetectable entities; and this may save the day for the spacy but imperceptible occasions of human consciousness.

By virtue of the emergence of Thought a special and novel environment has been evolved among human individuals within which they acquire the faculty of associating together, and reacting upon one another, no longer primarily for the preservation and continuance of the species but for the creation of a common consciousness.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

The two processes are inevitably linked in their structure, the second requiring the first as the matter upon which it descends in order to super-animate mt.. This view entirely respects the progressive effective concentration of human thought in an increasingly acute consciousness of its unitary destiny.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Like their prophet Descartes, transhumanists think of the human being as a consciousness hosted in a body, and of the body as a machine that the will can manipulate by means of reason.

They are certainly recognised in Western legal systems and... worldview (s); however... (human) consciousness... can not itself actively determine what is good and what is evil (and)... these freedoms are essentially thought of as mere individual prerogatives.»

In the New Thought setting of ultimate oneness, and the conviction that «God is all there is,» evil is regarded not as a fundamental part of the universal order, but as the byproduct of a human consciousness of separation.

The macrocosm of human collective consciousness is regarded as inseparable from the microcosm of individual thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

The negative perpetuates itself as a habit of thought» it becomes the highest form of self «consciousness» and it destroys everything in the most direct way; not by physical means, but by corrosion at the seat of faith and action, the human mind.

Moreover, since, according to Hartshorne, «human consciousness is essentially linguistic,» the mediation involved in any thinking or knowing of God is also a matter of language or verbal formulation (1959, 178).

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

Because the One Spirit includes even the materialists, though they reject this science, the mental act called «prayer» lifts consciousness when believed in; directed spiritually, prayer overcomes negative thinking, doubt, fear, directs, guides, improves, empowers, meets the human need and magnifies the consciousness of the divine Presence, Love.

Well, I guess leaving out soul from an (artificial) system, the main things which would seem that are different (aside from biochemical construction) between humans and computers are feelings and emotions, and thought, or consciousness.

The other four aspects of human existence - feeling, thought, will, and consciousness - are likewise nothing more than emptiness, and emptiness nothing more than they.

But if we can no longer accept the reality of a disembodied human soul, then what does it mean to attribute consciousness, thinking powers, will and emotions to a non-physical bodiless being, however greatly exalted?

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

Nor, I think, does the acknowledgment of animal consciousness truly threaten to diminish our sense of the vast gulf — cognitive, moral, creative, imaginative — separating the human world from that of even the most intelligent of animals.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

«That wave is receding now and leaving on the beach the debris of abstract thinking, compartmentalized knowledge, warring specialisms, fragmented facts, and a general sense of alienation between human consciousness and wider reality» (Peters 1985 p. 193).

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into living and non-living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms of the implicate order, along with reality as a whole».7 Thus the randomness of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised by human consciousness.

This allows for the possibility of unlimited capacities including: creativity, critical thinking, multi-level development of intelligence, social consciousness, healthy interpersonal relationships and a well - rounded, emotionally - grounded human being.

Alpha rhythms are stronger in humans than other animals, and Carhart - Harris thinks it could be a signature of high - level human consciousness.

What robots can never have, which humans have, argues Bringsjord, is phenomenological consciousness: «the first - hand experience of conscious thought», as Justin Hart of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, puts it.

Neuroscientists think they might open a window into the ultimate mystery of human consciousness.

The discovery raises questions about the necessity of consciousness for abstract thought, and supports the idea that maths might not be an exclusively human trait.

Consciousness is one of the biggest themes in all of these films, and Hutter thinks that if consciousness is ever achieved, it's likely to be an emergent property of advanced AI rather than something that was explicitly programmed or activated: «In general I would say that if I have a system which is sufficiently complicated... if they display behavior we would interpret as emotions as humans, then there's a reasonable chance that it has emoConsciousness is one of the biggest themes in all of these films, and Hutter thinks that if consciousness is ever achieved, it's likely to be an emergent property of advanced AI rather than something that was explicitly programmed or activated: «In general I would say that if I have a system which is sufficiently complicated... if they display behavior we would interpret as emotions as humans, then there's a reasonable chance that it has emoconsciousness is ever achieved, it's likely to be an emergent property of advanced AI rather than something that was explicitly programmed or activated: «In general I would say that if I have a system which is sufficiently complicated... if they display behavior we would interpret as emotions as humans, then there's a reasonable chance that it has emotions.»

D: I am excited about the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence because I think it would be a branching - out point in human consciousness.

The striatum of the brain in humans plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.

I like thinking alot about different things in life, ranging from the nature of reality to the nature of human consciousness to the even more mind boggling question of whether or...

At first, the central question is the theoretical one put forth by Nathan, but just as the movie starts to peel back the layers of its thoughts on human consciousness, the questions becomes a far more mundane: Which of these three characters can we trust, and if we can't trust them, why can't we?

which correlates intelligence, thought, and consciousness as interdependent neurobiological base of the ecological understanding of the human spirit.

In an attempt to combine all of human consciousness, Russian scientists mistakenly combine all of humanity physically as well, resulting in the coagulated mass of flesh and thought known as «The Void» (that's the stark white stuff that surrounds you in the game world).

Its unique mix of mind - melting puzzles and thought - provoking conversations have caused me to think deeply about both the challenges I'm facing and the true nature of human consciousness.

«The Physique of Consciousness» is a sequence of 200 «cultural fitness exercises», the product of many years of study of human thought behavior and body language by the artist Xu Zhen and his firm «MadeIn Company», which was founded in 2010.