Sentences with phrase «which alter reality»

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You need to understand the emerging platforms, he says, which means understanding the role of social media, as well as technologies altering the way we perceive entertainment, such as virtual reality and augmented reality.

Although the present anticipates and makes choices which bear on the future, the present is independent of the future in the sense that the reality of the present is not in one whit diminished or altered by the failure of the anticipated events to occur.

Thomas Merton wrote that «no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

That kind of state makes you less able to fight back if people question you, and alters your perception of reality, which can be problematic in the particular context of detention of several reasons:

It is clear that altering social pattern is particularly hard, especially in a single four - year term, yet it may be argued that if a party promises to cut taxation, it can redeem this promise depending on the realities of the period.But it is quite possible for politicians to encourage attitudes and expectations which are mutually incompatible.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of a united effort to address the reality and ramifications of climate change, nations of the world assembled in Rio de Janiero in 1992 and proposed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change («UNFCC») in an effort to stabilize concentrations of climate - altering gases in the atmosphere, which UNFCC was adopted in 1994, and has since been ratified by 197 nations, including the United States;

Neuroscience studies indicate that racial prejudices involve altered signaling in brain regions involved in empathy, which can be restored by cultural interventions such as increased racial contact or virtual reality training.

Psychosis is a term used to indicate mental health disorders that present with symptoms like hallucinations (such as hearing voices) or delusions (unshakeable beliefs based on the person's altered perception of reality, which may not correspond to the way others see the world).

It's a reality though that stress alters the brain signals, which trigger the ovaries to release eggs each month.

As the days grow darker and the nights more disturbing, Kaia is forced to confront Christine's tangled perception of reality, which may have begun to alter her own.

In the DS game Super MArio 64 DS, which easily rivals Super Mario Bros 2 in the bonkers altered - reality stakes, Luigi's lanky moves were exaggerated to some pretty awesome proportions.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

The countryside has become a foreign landscape for those living in suburban or urbanised areas, which has altered many children's perceptions of reality — changing their physical state of mind.

Complementing this system are the six Infinity Stones that you can choose from (Space, Time, Reality, Power, Mind and Soul), which alter your character's playstyles in significant ways.

At the same time, Defector brings plenty of new things into virtual reality by the power of your choices, which can alter how you will experience the game.

Superboy - Prime alters reality from the paradise dimension in which he is trapped and, six months after his death, this brings Todd back to life!

Damage is examined not in the physicality of violence but in the ways in which it continuously alters the mental, physical, emotional environmental realities of women.

Alicia Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, wrote of Wilson in an email this week: «Her luminous canvases transmuted the effects of air, light, and water into shimmering reality and our vision has been forever altered by the way in which she saw the world around us.

Applying strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individuals» longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves — as hip - hop musicians, costumed characters, or digitized alter egos — Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China's younger generation.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis - a-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted.

Inspired by an observation by Michael Faraday (in a course of six lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle) in David Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality that «there is no more open door by which you can enter into a study of natural philosophy than [by] considering the physical phenomena of a candle», Parreno's goal for the exhibition was to use its methods of display and artworks to explore the idea of light as an entity — one which alters what we see, and camouflages what we can not.

Whether obvious or understated, or even invisible, these occurrences alter the ways in which we perceive our realities.

To the extent that the results depart from reality, the modeler («experimenter») can alter parameters to see which alterations bring the two closer together.

The reality is that even those cases which do not involve life altering injuries or complex legal questions are often defended aggressively by insurance companies.

We don't alter reality, but the «lens» through which we perceive reality.

As such, many religious people have altered their interpretation of biblical scripture or have adapted their faith to fit with the reality in which we currently live.