Sentences with phrase «viewed as organisms»

Coral can no longer be viewed as organisms that only adapt slowly over evolutionary millennia via genetic mutation and natural selection.

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According to this account, the human being is a single total organism with many specialized functions, amongst which are thinking and feeling (generally regarded as operations of the soul in the traditional view).

Whitehead's view leads to attention to the environment as intrinsically important to the organism.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

The philosophy of organism culminates in a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal world.

In the dominant mechanistic view, the information stored in a DNA molecule was seen as totally determinative of the future development of the organism.

According to their view, an organism's life may be described as the emergence, maintenance and disappearance of order.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

Our educational task, if we accept Whitehead's view of metaphysics, is to assist the student to look on the world or the universe as a process or organism in which God is at work; to understand how God can be in our midst and yet stand behind the process as eternal and changeless.

He himself always characterizes it as cosmology and does so from the point of view that the latter deals with a single genus of elementary entities which form the building - blocks of the world: «The presumption that there is only one genus of actual entities constitutes an ideal of cosmological theory to which the philosophy of organism endeavors to conform» (PR 168).

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

First, virus may or may not be as ancient as bacteria, There is serious speculation that they may actually be better viewed as «rogue dna» that actually budded off from complex host organisms.

Her own sympathies, at least with respect to causation, focus upon Whitehead's early philosophy of nature: «I now find myself distanced from his later writings, but increasingly sympathetic to the middle ones [e.g. SMW], especially as he was working towards a generalized notion of «organism,» and when his «passage of nature» could be seen not as one datum after another, but as a pattern - forming and pattern - sustaining process which could support a dynamic view of a causation underlying more restricted kinds» (CE vii).

While he admits that Solzhenitsyn has a romantic «conservative view of nations, holding that their allure lies in their «mystical nature,» Mahoney cites considerable evidence indicating that Solzhenitsyn views nations as spiritual and cultural entities rather than racial organisms, as Fascist ideology does.

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

Alternative protein sources may include the use of by - products currently viewed as waste or the development of new protein sources from plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.

Volume VII, Number 2 On Forgetting to Wear Boots — Stephen Talbott Organizations as Living Organisms: Developing a Seven-fold View — Magda Lissau Educating the Will?Part II: Developing Feeling Will in Contrast to Sense / Nerve Will — Michael Howard Recapitulation and the Waldorf Curriculum — Alduino Mazzone

Hutton's work became the basis of modern geology, inspired Charles Darwin and prefigured plate tectonics, volcanology, geobiology and the Gaia Hypothesis, a late - 20th - century view of the planet as a single self - regulating organism.

I expected to be viewed as — at best — a little backward for my lack of knowledge about both my chosen field and experimental organism.

A Natural History of Shells is a fascinating biological view of shells as the products of living organisms, not just a treatise on shell growth.

«We've had this view that organisms became more «selfish» as they evolved, learning how to take advantage of the system by becoming pathogens,» she said.

Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of excision repair, which is now widely viewed as the major mechanism of DNA repair — including repair of UV damage — in living organisms.

Viruses, being dependent on these organisms to host them, are viewed as evolutionary latecomers: genomic scraps that fell out onto the floor back when life was assembling itself into more complex arrangements.

MADE OF MICROBES The microbes dwelling in and on multicellular organisms, such as insects and humans, should be viewed as evolutionarily inseparable from their hosts, some biologists argue.

One way of understanding such divergent transformations is to view each organism as a machine, adapted to a different habitat and function.

This apparently happens often enough that the population can be viewed as «quasi-sexual» in comparison to organisms like humans, where the process of sexual reproduction, specifically fertilization, combines genes from two parents.

It takes a microscope to view such tiny objects, such as bacteria or other one - celled organisms.

It takes a microscope to view objects this small, such as bacteria or other one - celled organisms.

Even more, perhaps, a naturalist is inexhaustibly fascinated by biological diversity and does not view organisms merely as models or vehicles for theory but rather as the raison d'etre for biological investigation.»

We view the body as a whole organism, rather than simply a collection of organs.

Compressing macro views of aerial photography into the same picture plane as images of microscopic organisms and silhouettes of disposable plastics, Hockaday explores the gradation in which nature becomes built environments.

It can also be viewed as a life - giving metaphor for the link between humankind and the earth and a hymn to procreation in all living organisms, which, in this respect, are related or analogous.

However, like scientists who use microscopes as a tool to view organisms imperceptible to the naked eye, these artists used automaticism to reveal the latent organic forms lying beneath the surface of the subconscious.

The string utilized in this process can be viewed as the basic cellular unit of fabrication, and by implementing media and practices inherited from my relatives, both living and deceased, I aim to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism's skeletal remains.

This is not uncommon in viewing a painting, even at its most brazen, but as your eyes scan Hylden's exhibition, bearing witness to the slight procedural differences between each work, noticing what is depicted as much as how they are painted, it becomes clear they are a singular organism.

Lichens, which are a symbiotic association of a fungal and photosynthetic organism, are generally not considered plants in the purest sense of taxonomy, although earlier classification schemes viewed them as plants.

As Moberg put it, his greatest asset was an «ecologic view» centered on the idea that any organism — from microbe to man — «could be understood only in the context of the relationships it forms with everything else.»

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ICON itself can be viewed as both a living organism and an ecosystem.

Rothbart views the very young infant as a highly reactive organism whose behaviour becomes, with development, increasingly controlled by regulatory processes.

Therapy is based on the assumption that each family has unique characteristics that emerge when family members interact and that this family «system» influences all members of the family; thus the family is viewed as a whole organism.

For example, today we view businesses not as structures, but as organisms.