Sentences with phrase «think of the human brain»

But their mistake may have been to think of the human brain as a computer rather than a biological entity that must solve the problem of how to compare apples, pears and plums.

Consider this analogy — think of the human brain like the earth and water like trauma.

Not exact matches

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.

«Two adjacent brain regions allow humans to build new thoughts using a sort of conceptual algebra, mimicking the operations of silicon computers that represent variables and their changing values.»

Yes, Musk's choice of words was poor, but his brain is too busy thinking about Hyperloops and colonizing Mars to worry about how our puny human brains might misinterpret him, okay?

«Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,» said Musk according to a CNBC report, adding that «some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem.»

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

There is still no explanation for the spontaneous origin of the universe, as well as the advanced cognition of the brain (chemicals and genetics reveal general trends, but no one knows how complete thoughts are actually formed, nor emotions or personalities); creation and the human conscious, the two fundamental focuses of religion.

A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.

Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»

I understand that the human brain, or mind, is capable of far more than you think.

Lucretius thought that the soul nestled in the human breast; Descartes located it in the pineal gland; and process theologian John Cobb, following Alfred North Whitehead, hopes to find mind wandering as a thread through the «interstices of the brain,» But if we are truly dealing with metaphysics, then the mind and the soul, like the risen Christ, will not be anywhere, but holistically related to the body.

Be proud to be a human, use that amazingly complex brain of yours to figure out all of the mysteries of the universe and stop thinking without being honest and critical of your ideas.

Did you ever think when you are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses, are all part of the lense (of the human body) that you are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its essence?

Deities and afterlives are, to me, an absolutely natural side effect of the human brain's ability for abstract thought.

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

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?

No, I think he is actually arguing that the Holy Spirit is just an articulation of some organic process within the human brain.

Under the guise of the scientific notion, I defy science to reproduce the human brain, create DNA that matches with another person, create a universe that has order, make humans with all the complexities all the same with identical DNA factors, and every human with the same finger prints as another, and when an atheistic scientist can do that, I will rethink my level of thoughts in regards to God.

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?

He called his view «materialistic,» in so far as «it does not allow the possibility of any human thought without a brain and a movement in this brain.»

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

Finite human freedom can be realized only in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.

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.

The moment within the progress of the evolution of the human body that this happens would indeed, we think, be related to brain size.

For us these are the components of reality that explain the nature of the world, the phenomenon of life within it, and even how we human organisms think through our brains.

And finally, at the extreme end of the known spectrum, comes the thinking incandescence of the human brain.

The extremely rich (experiential) data provided by the human brain, accordingly, can be thought to allow the emergence of a higher - level actuality, which we call the mind.

At the same time, claiming to know what God is like and how he would react to topical issues like gay marriage is ludicrous as well... by definition, if he is God, he doesn't think along the lines of a human brain, so we will never be able to understand him.

So termination of a pregnancy before brain development is not evil, and can not be compared to slaughtering of millions of thinking, conscious, human beings.

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

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.

If you think it can't you have no knowledge of how the human brain works.

It is our ability to think and reason that makes us human and distinguishes us from all other animals, a piece of tissue, and a baby from an embryo with no measurable brain waves.

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.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

AS funny as it is to think of, a soul, yes, it requires an amount of faith — which by the way is found in brain... the place where thoughts are found, well maybe not for you but the rest of the human race.

They'd come up with some stomach - churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully - functioning human brain could conceive, then shout «The Devil Made Me Do It» and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything.

There is something wrong with a scientific approach that thinks it has to be proven with randomized experiments that a paltry human - made substance doesn't match up with the elixir of human breast milk (thousands of ingredients in the right proportions for that particular baby to build the brain, body, immune system).

They are thought to be part of the reason why the human brain has developed advanced cognitive abilities beyond that of most other mammals.

The fact that they could do so suggests that the ability to think in an abstract way may be more common in nature than we might expect, and not just restricted to humans and a handful of animals with big brains.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

The FOXP2 gene is thought to have played a role in the evolution of the human brain and the development of language.

«It seems the serotonin helps respond to the rhythmic movement of the worm in different ways, similar to how serotonin is thought to drive arousal in the human brain,» said Collins.

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

And similarly neuroscience, revolutionised by the capacity of PET scanning techniques to observe for the first time the brain «in action», promised to clarify the physical basis of the human mind, thinking, memorising, perceiving and interpreting the world «out there».

In his latest book, Adam Piore explores how bioengineers are harnessing the latest technologies to unlock untapped abilities in the human body and mind, like translating neural brain patterns of thoughts into written words

The laws of physics may well prevent the human brain from evolving into an ever more powerful thinking machine