Sentences with phrase «vast assembly»

As an example, he quotes Francis Crick as saying that our ``... sense of personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of quarks and electrons.»

On a day earlier this week, Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy stood on the podium in the vast Assembly chamber.

These and other cases expose consciousness for what it really is: a vast assembly of disparate systems that interact to form our experiences.

Many neuroscientists have argued that our sense of free will is nothing more than a by - product of the workings of a vast assembly of nerve cells.

The world - threatening stakes have been laid out, and even if they were the only ones to volunteer out of a vast assembly of scientists, they seem more resigned than panic - stricken or frantic to solve this puzzle and find a way to defeat this threat before total «Annihilation.»

Some 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints by Jasper Johns will constitute a vast assembly that begins in the 1950s.

That may shock anyone familiar with the Schnabel of popular repute, whose name became synonymous with 1980s excess through his vast assemblies of broken crockery and public declarations such as: «I'm as close to Picasso as you're going to get in this fucking life.»