If the thing-in-itself is unthinking and acts according to purely mechanical laws, which is the view of materialism, then it must also produce out of itself, by purely mechanical necessity, the human individual along with everything about him. On that view the consciousness of freedom can be...
They are most likely to imitate those acts over which they feel some uncertainty regarding their ability to perform. If they are too uncertain, they will cry; if they are absolutely certain they can perform an act, they are less likely to imitate it. Children also imitate actions that win ...
Examples included: “Besides the obvious (sexual penis to vagina intercourse), we spend a lot of time kissing (“making out”), I give her massages, perform oral sex on her, I groom her (cleaning her skin, fixing and combing her hair).” “Cuddling and lying in bed together is a ...
In a human sundial, the person standing upright in the middle acts as the gnomon, casting a shadow upon the ground. What is a human sundial? A human sundial, also known as an analemmatic sundial, uses a person as a vertical shadow-casting object to tell time by noting where the ...
This paper builds on a presentation at the 2018 Expressive conference [4] in which I used examples from two centuries of art to present the challenge: how could a computer algorithmically mimic the kinds of abstraction of human figures that a human artist is able to achieve? In that presentat...
Human wellbeing and development has been historically maintained in large part by the interaction with, including manipulation of, natural sub-systems to serve human needs and desires. Examples includehuntingand foraging, and later agriculture, to serve nutritional requirements, exploitation of forests fo...
Furthermore, we can use two copies of samples (e.g. pictures) of for example a giraffe and okapi to explain an obvious phenotypic difference, and explain that they split from a common ancestor about 11.5 million years ago. The latter examples are part of the practice of giving definitions ...
Two leading examples of monopolies were the Dutch East India and the British East India companies, each of which received from its own government (but not from the native peoples) the exclusive right to govern as well as to trade with vast colonial territories. Mercantilism, then, attempted to...
With regard togatekeeping power, Rahman explains that the exercise of this power does not require a firm to control the entire infrastructure of transmission, only to “control the gateway to an otherwise decentralized and diffuse landscape.” Examples of this kind of power, he says, are Faceboo...
Though cancellous bone only makes up about 20 percent of the body's bone mass, it plays important roles in body function. It provides structural stability and acts as a kind of shock absorber inside the bone, but without adding too much to the overall weight of the body. ...