I often try to explain to him the reasons for the actions and
thoughts of human beings.
It is my experience that
thinking of human beings in this way heightens the wonder.
Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to
think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.
Second, if you take all of God's characteristics and
think of a human being with them, your boss for example, you get a horrifically bad person.
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.
According to Murdoch, the thoughtful modern person can no longer conceive of men and women as rational creatures who are slowly expunging evil from their midst; instead, it is necessary to
think of human beings as «benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.»
Since the time of Descartes it has been popular to
think of the human being as a complex machine.
Of course, as economists know, homo economicus is an abstraction, but we can not
think of human beings in general without abstraction.
It really saddens my heart that Ghanaians think about political parties but do not
think of human beings»
There's a whole new world to explore in Planet 51, and the best principal gag the movie can come up with in the whole realm of possibilities available to a strange, undiscovered planet is that the native beings of the planet
think of a human being as an alien.
When people think of animal bites, they usually
think of a human being bit by a dog.
Not exact matches
Rationality and creativity, intuition and analysis, intrinsic and extrinsic drive, expert and beginner's mindsets, these
are all essential aspects
of human thinking.
In those kinds
of use cases, I
think we
're unlocking the power
of what it means to
be human.
Cognitive bias
are misleading quirks
of thought — mental tendencies that
are part
of human nature.
«If you
think about it, the automotive
human - machine interface
is kind
of predestined for voice,» says Gartner research director Werner Goertz.
NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't
think hookups
are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it
's known for a long time that its vast map
of human connections could help people find long - term partners.
It
's just one
of dozens
of quirks
of the
human psyche, implanted through evolution, that make us favor safe
thinking.
Originally written in 1951, Alan W. Watts»
thoughts about how to resolve, once and for all, the twin
human epidemic
of insecurity and anxiety
are particularly relevant as technology forces humanity to move faster and faster.
As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there
are cases in which we should
think not in terms
of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms
of the appropriate limits to
be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving
human objectives.
In a realm
of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which
is, perhaps, another way
of thinking about the
human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person
is one we shouldn't pass up.
If we
think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means
of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights»)
of different kinds
of corporate persons depend not on what kind
of entity they
are, but on the the demonstrable goals
of the
human beings involved.
Instead, the command will need to «not appear as
being part
of the task at hand — which means the robot must
think it
's deciding to turn itself off instead
of obeying the orders
of a pesky
human.
Kurzweil has appeared in Inc. magazine numerous times (he let us scan his brain and told us how to predict the future) and
is the leading advocate
of a school
of thought called the singularity, which says, essentially, that
humans will eventually turn into robots and live forever.
«Their basic
thought is robotics and A.I.
are going to weave their way into more and more skills that used to
be human skills,» says Lee Rainie, Pew's director
of internet, science, and technology research.
«That
being said, we
are all
human, and I
think you'll see that most
of the time I spend on weekends
is focused on spending time with people.
The only thing that I can
think of is if
humans being there
is inherently part
of the economy — and the only way that happens
is tourism.
CEOs may
think they
're opting out
of being creative, but all decisions have a
human element to them.
We have a methodology called «design
thinking» that results in innovation from a
human point
of view, and the companies that
were willing to take risks gave us a chance.
The results
of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable between
humans like the flu, a scary
thought considering the
human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds
was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.
In the past,
human resource managers
were cast in a support role in which their
thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects
of the business
were rarely solicited.
«We build world - class tech that puts people back in control
of their finances, we speak to our customers like
humans and we
're never afraid to challenge old
thinking in order to innovate.»
Sleep
is a function that
humans tend to
think of as
being «on» or «off».
Glenn Llopis
is the Chairman
of the Glenn Llopis Group — a nationally recognized
thought - leadership,
human capital, and business strategy consulting firm.
«I
think it
's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO
of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and
human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would
be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to
be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.
The idea, which
was primarily based on the research
of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we
think about emotions and
human behavior.
While you shouldn't try and trick your audience into
thinking they
're talking with a
human, your chatbot can add a level
of personality to your brand, resulting in a higher level
of engagement from your audience.
You might agree with the Times about how a wizard
of Dumbledore's moral superiority should
be immune to the weaknesses
of human sexuality or you may side with some
of Rowling's fans who
think a strong gay character
is leap for gay rights.
As
human beings, we frame new phenomenon using our existing mental models, which means we need to
think differently in order to succeed in this new era
of digital change.
If there
's something insane about a CEO who
thinks his company
's mission
is more important than any accomplishment in all
of human history — indeed, in all
of fish history — there
's also something irresistible.
Debbie Cook, the former mayor
of Huntington Beach, California,
was one
of the first investors: «I
thought, How can I invest in something that will actually
be an asset for as long as
humans exist and grow their own food?»
«I
think there
are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area
of «understanding and explaining
human behavior,»» says Mocan.
«Trailblazers in the private sector have inspired us to
think of what
is bigger than Earth... We
are only a generation away from a permanent
human residency on Mars.»
I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the kind
of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever
's new diet weren't worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything worth selling — but at least we
thought they
were living, breathing
human beings.I said:
In a survey
of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November
of last year, 47 percent
of respondents said they didn't
think their company leaders cared about or
were actively trying to create a «
human» workplace.
Think about the implications for the
human race, if technology
is destined to
be the essence
of who we
are as a species, if it
's developed largely under the leadership and guidance
of a single gender.»
And while it
's tempting to
think of markets as amorphous virtual entities, remember that, even in the B2B world, every product
is purchased by a
human being in the real world.
Think of it: innovations
are necessary for
humans to harness nature for their own interest.
Wise admitted that «people
are concerned» the rise
of robots could mean less jobs for
humans, but she
thinks that belief
is a «misnomer.»
Not only does this suggest modern
humans might have
been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave
of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals
were more diverse than we
thought.
One
of the most intriguing things about
human behavior
is that most
of us
think that we can hide our
thoughts from others — but nothing could
be further from the truth.