Sentences with phrase «thought on consciousness»

CNS 2018 To kick off the 25th anniversary meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Michael Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara) took us back to the beginning of the field, and then on a whirlwind tour through the history of thought on consciousness.

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Solitude is also a break from self - consciousness, and worrying what others think of us can be a endless distraction from more important concerns and a hefty drain on our mental resources.

His famous statement about America being the stage on which modern thought is played out in popular consciousness always struck me as quite the exaggeration.

... Only until what we are told and instructed on how to live by others - parents - society... As if none of us have a consciousness thought on our own conclusion of life... Something to think about...

Jay responded by ruminating on this clause in the Constitution and confessing sadly that «the word slaves was avoided, probably on account of the existing toleration of slavery, and of its discordancy with the principles of the Revolution; and from a consciousness of its being repugnant to... the Declaration of Independence» (111:298) The number of such revealing glimpses into the thinking of the founders is almost without number.

Thus we have a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses which together make up a sort of super-consciousness; the earth not merely covered by myriads of grains of thought but enclosed in one single enveloping consciousness so that it forms, functionally, a single vast grain of thought on a sidereal scale of immensity, the plurality of individual acts of reflective consciousness coming together and reinforcing one another in a single unanimous act.

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.

While they are being uprooted in many quarters of modern thought the premises of scientific materialism and reductionist empiricism still have a tenacious hold on our consciousness.

In him, for the first time on earth, consciousness has coiled back upon itself to become thought.

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?

But the succeeding acts of the drama must take place on another level; they must occur in a new world into which, at this moment, we are being born: a world in which each thinking unit upon earth will only act (if he agrees to act) in the consciousness, become natural and instinctive to all, of furthering a work of total personalization.

However, the New Thought emphasis on consciousness as the determinant of lived conditions can lead to a simplistic «blame the victim» type attitude regarding lack, limitation, and even social injustice.

Divine Science represents many of the New Thought denominations in declaring, «Sickness is the result of a belief in two powers; a lack of the full realization that we are, in Truth, spiritual beings... when an individual is expressing on a high level of consciousness and knows completely that he is Spirit, he can not be ill, for he is in complete harmony with the one creative power, God.»

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.

Did he ever in self - consciousness recall his simple days as a shepherd boy near Bethlehem and wonder what his old father would think if now he could look in on the estate of his royal son?

It is surely obvious that no man on earth could alone have evolved them; no one man, thinking by himself can encompass, master or exhaust them; yet every man on earth shares, in himself in the universal heightening of consciousness promoted by the existence in our minds of these new concepts of matter and new dimensions of cosmic reality.

«On my way back I could think of nothing else but the words «get rid, get rid»; and the idea must have continued to possess me during my sleeping hours, for the first consciousness in the morning brought back the same thought, with the revelation of a discovery, which framed itself into the reasoning, «If it is possible to get rid of anger and worry, why is it necessary to have them at all?»

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.

He thinks that the inevitable mixing of these hybrid prehensions of other souls with the mediated experiences of the same souls explains why it is so difficult for consciousness to focus on clear instances of unmediated prehensions.

Some hundreds of thousands of years ago Consciousness achieved the stage of its own centration, and thus the power of thought, in a brain that had reached the limit of nervous complication: this was the first stage in the hominization of Life on earth.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

On the higher levels only does it include what we normally mean by «thought» or «consciousness.»

Can we not be persuaded to believe that specks of consciousness on this little planet can not, in all reasonableness, be thought of as accurate critics of the total purpose behind creation?

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.

My own thinking is still inchoate on this point, but my tentative conclusion is that a new consciousness is arising in groups strategically placed in the socio - economic structure.

A late chapter comparing Voegelin's work with the Catholic theology of Bernard Lonergan - whose ambitions in responding to the modern crisis matched Voegelin's and whose work, like his, takes its stand on a foundational account of consciousness - helps Morrissey to bring Voegelin's thought into what he calls a «theological community of discourse» and sharpens his final chapter's presentation of Voegelin's «reconstruction» of Christian theology.

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).

I personally think Jesus greatest teaching were based on the fact that the Jewish faith became so perverted through traditions for atonement instead of consciousness about the actions through God's eyes.

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».

Still more incisive than either the abolition of individualistic anthropocentrism or the abolition of the fixation on consciousness - centered and observer - centered theoretical beginnings, and still more offensive to a style of thinking marked by Continental philosophical traditions, is the second alteration of the conception of subjectivity in Whitehead's book.

Cézanne ponders the mountain in search of a motif, which will enable him to render the mountain visible to us That he depends on the surrounding world for his vision is evident from his attitude, reflected in these words: «The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness» (S&N 17).

After a hazy few days my first thoughts on regaining consciousness were, «Where is my baby?»

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It would be something done on their own, and it would be something done, I think, on such a high level of consciousness it would really change this situation.»

Even though it may not always seem so, our consciousness is rather kicked back and relaxed when you think about all the input with which the brain is being bombarded and all the processing that is going on.

While he argues persuasively that there are glimmerings of «meta - thinking» in Metaman's global banking systems and weather forecasting, he goes on to make more questionable assertions about artificial intelligence and «meta - consciousness».

Although Hutter thinks the movie bungled the accuracy on the Turing test, he praises it for its sophisticated treatment of consciousness and for avoiding over-the-top action scenes.

In his 1972 best - seller, The Psychology of Consciousness, Stanford University psychologist Robert Ornstein argued that Western society places too great an emphasis on rational, left - brain thinking and not enough on intuitive, right - brain thinking.

For more information about the theory of Biocentrism, Robert Lanza's compelling and thought provoking book, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe is available on Amazon today.

We focus on removing stress, tension, ego and unwanted thoughts by adapting a holistic & traditional philosophy, expanding one's own consciousness, and by using its method of practice.

On a related note, I think that as sugar dating increasingly hits the public consciousnesses, its time to proudly claim the lifestyle, and compile our own Hall of Fame.

Smart movies like Zero Dark Thirty might think they the whole movie consciousness game on lock at the moment, but no, here comes bumbling in Gangster Squad, shooting its tommy gun in the air and then pooping its pants Al Roker style.

She is described as a consciousness, able to think and feel on her own, gaining new experiences by herself and through what Theodore sees.

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?

However, consciousness for a new thinking in education is evident in different countries besides where educators have begun to take on board what academics and advocacy groups have highlighted for years.

While it is true that The Year of Engineering is another initiative, it is one that I hope will have the weight of government behind it to enable it to penetrate the consciousness of young people and change their thinking on Engineering and perhaps other STEM careers as well.

As words fall away for Winston, the hapless protagonist of the novel, as his consciousness is narrowed to the vocabulary of Newspeak, he finds himself unable to think, remember, to «fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few minutes at a time.»