Blame the human ability to imagine what might have been.
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Hope: Our ability to imagine a new future, to conceptualize and explore new truths.
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I think the ability to imagine alternatives is always constrained by this endpoint that we have.
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These characters, for all their expansive education, do seem to lack some ability to imagine others.
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Vonnegut had a startling ability to imagine the future, and the novel's fictions appear to have become reality.
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American culture, in particular, lacks a tragic imagination — an ability to imagine that things can go horribly wrong.
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One of them is perspective-taking, or the ability to imagine and then feel what someone else is feeling.
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The human ability to imagine, consider and discuss future solutions and problems is nowhere more evident than in space.
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Anyuru's ability to imagine a thread connecting present-day exclusion to future atrocities makes this more than a genre entertainment.
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I think young people have the ability to imagine a better world—to have a vision for the longer term.
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Kidd's imagination — her ability to imagine a world more magical, darker, richer than our own — is a thing of wonder.
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Part of the agenda with my installations is to give people the ability to imagine a different future with these machines.
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One of the symptoms reported most frequently by people with severe depressive illness is lack of ability to imagine the future.
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But after 40 years many nations have become desensitized to Iran's violence and have lost the ability to imagine a peaceful Iran.
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There are people who claim to have no internal eye, no ability to imagine physical objects that aren't in front of them.
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The most important such skill is what psychologists "mental rotation," or the ability to imagine objects in other than their actual position.
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"It's beyond any ability to imagine that Mike would be anything other than a loyal, patriotic American," Kelly told Fox News of Flynn.
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"It's beyond any ability to imagine that Mike would be anything other than a loyal patriotic American," Kelly told Fox News of Flynn.
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Based on fMRI imaging, they think it's involved in our ability to imagine the mental states of someone else and in our own self-reflection.
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Technology rewards the ability to imagine wildly different futures, Roy Bahat, the head of Bloomberg Beta, a San Francisco-based venture-capital firm, told me.
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It's that they lacked the ability to imagine them as a genuine threat to the civic order in the same way they did armed black activists.
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What seems in short supply among elites, including Ivy league-educated elites, is empathy, the ability to imagine the lives of those impacted by the law.
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We must also recognize, however, that humans differ from all other living creatures in a fundamental way: Humans have the ability to imagine, innovate and create.
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There are lots of ways that human minds differ from those of other animals, but one of the most impressive is our ability to imagine things.
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Counterfactual thinking is the human ability to imagine a world that doesn't exist in reality, but not in a Lord of the Rings kind of way.
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And then Apple, of course a certain brilliance of Steve Jobs, image, ability to imagine what it should look like and how it would work. Right.
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Losing the ability to imagine something different — imagining that leaders of a different party, gender, race, or ideology might change things — is a much more frightening prospect.
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Being able to connect memories with one another may be at the root of our ability to imagine and plan — two essential qualities that AI still lacks.
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Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say 'there but for the grace of God go I,' is part of what makes us human.
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Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say "there but for the grace of God go I," is part of what makes us human.
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The ability to imagine beings that don't exist is a cognitive milestone that forms the basis of religion and spirituality, Maxime Aubert, a co-author of the study, told Science.
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Today, the United States and the world it did so much to create are once again courting tragedy — precisely because Americans have lost their ability to imagine what tragedy really is.
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And in Northwest Junior High School, where we taught daily social justice classes, we found a 40 percent increase in students' ability to imagine how things look from someone else's perspective.
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In the lore surrounding Facebook's genesis, Zuckerberg's genius lay not in his technical prowess—though he certainly had more than a little of that—but in his ability to imagine what Facebook could be.
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Technical skills without empathy have resulted in products that have bombed in the market, because a vital step to building a product is the ability to imagine how someone else might think and feel.
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The vitality of the U.S. economy has long stemmed from our country's unique ability to imagine and then commercialize "the next big thing" — from electricity to air travel, from the personal computer to the iPhone.
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Fisher – who passed away last month – is best known for his hugely influential book Capitalist Realism, which is about how capitalism, and especially neoliberalism, tries to exhaust the ability to imagine coherent alternatives to it.
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Additionally, humans, unlike computers, have a unique capacity to not only learn from the past, but to also invent a new future, giving us the ability to imagine a future that does not yet exist.
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Dear Lydia, I am porn-positive, especially because I watch a lot of it, but lately, I've been beginning to lose the ability to imagine anything but stills from xHamster and Pornhub when I masturbate.
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It's involved in metacognitive processes like self-reflection, theory of mind, the ability to imagine mental states and others, time travel, the ability to think about the future or the past, and what is called the autobiographical memory.
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Given the fact that humans do have this inherent capacity and ability to imagine and create, future changes in markets or geopolitical conditions (that are mostly due to human actions) cannot be predicted based simply on past events.
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And it may drive his statements and actions in ways less leavened by cognitive capacity and attention span, or by empathy and the ability to imagine the impact of one's actions on others, or by intelligence or prudence.
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This ties back into the cannabis study findings because, "if there are certain drugs that impair our ability to imagine the future, then they might get in the way of helping people to become more future oriented," he says.
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And it is that thing that sets us apart, that ability to imagine and hypothesize, and then test and figure stuff out, and tinker and make things and make them better, and then break them down and rework them.
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But if you are a class-privileged person and grow up with a mother who is a doctor and a father who is a lawyer, you have been given and blessed with the ability to imagine going that far.
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"If someone sees their own picture digitally aged, they're more likely to allocate funds to retirement" My graduate student Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon just did three studies, and what she looked at is our ability to imagine the future self.
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The point seems to be that a civilizational blank slate contains liberatory potential (the press release ends with, "Water washes everything away"), but apocalyptic climate fatalism can also limit our ability to imagine and prepare for the future by pretending, resigned, that there won't be one.
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I suppose I yearn for a societal structure that can acknowledge the fundamental role artists play in our ability to imagine and build our world — one that could support them in these wild endeavors, rather than resign them to selling artifacts in galleries to support their working obsessions.
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"I sound corny but I think it's still defining, the ability to imagine a place for yourself and your family that's beyond the ZIP code of your birth and reach for that," said Mr. Patrick, who did not own a book of his own until he was 20183.
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Steel sharpens steel, or whatever the Crossfit crowd says, and Kim's attention to analytic detail and my version of Harry's skill at Visual Calculus, a CSI-style ability to imagine what happened in a particular location, allowed us to solve several side missions and get a decent picture at what happened with the hanged man.
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" The novelist urged the graduates to use their status and influence to raise their voices "on behalf of those who have no voice," to "identify with not only with the powerful, but with the powerless," and to "retain the ability to imagine [themselves] into the lives of those who do not have [their] advantages.
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The ability to imagine strange worlds is frozen by the impulse to make sure that games fit specific rules and bounds: Strong genre boundaries, specific visual art guidelines, and the constant attempt to induce a "flow state" in the player are all overriding concerns that make sure that the connections aren't are being made between the player and abstract systems rather than between people.
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Martha has been told that cherry red is exactly midway between burgundy red and fire red (she has experienced these two shades of red, but not cherry). With this, Martha has the ability to imagine cherry red if she so chooses, but as long as she does not exercise this ability, to imagine cherry red, she does not know what it is like to see cherry red. One might accept Conee's arguments that imaginative ability is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowing what it is like to see a color, but preserve a version of the ability hypothesis that employs an ability other than imagination. For example, Gertler discusses the option that what Mary gains is not an ability to imagine colors, but an ability to recognize colors by their phenomenal quality.
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4 The ability to imagine and walk oneself through various scenarios is a mental exercise in itself. Self- reflection in this way taps into many different cognitive capabilities, including questioning rigid viewpoints, elaborating on experience, and knowing oneself through their relational context.
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The dialogical self is a psychological concept which describes the mind's ability to imagine the different positions of participants in an internal dialogue, in close connection with external dialogue. The "dialogical self" is the central concept in the dialogical self theory (DST), as created and developed by the Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans since the 1990s.
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New York: Free Press;, 1992. 19. Print. In contrast, basic emotions such as happiness and sadness only require the awareness of one's own physical state. Therefore, the development of social emotions is tightly linked with the development of social cognition, the ability to imagine other people's mental states, which generally develops in adolescence.Inhelder, B., & Piaget, J. (1958).
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Stumbling on Happiness has 6 Sections labeled Prospection, Subjectivity, Realism, Presentism, Rationalization, and Corrigibility. A summary of each follows. In the Prospection Section Gilbert contends that humans are most special because of their ability to imagine. Our large frontal lobes biologically distinguish us from other animals and the function of the frontal lobe is to help us imagine.
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Other critics, such as The Telegraph's Hettie Judah, suggested that they touched on the ethics of breeding and the human ability to imagine itself separate from the natural world, or "the dwindling lifeways of small, family-owned farms" and human-animal bonds.Abatemarco, Michael. "'Zenith': Center's 2017 International Award Winners," Santa Fe New American, "Pasatiempo," December 8, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
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18 In this context, phantasmagoria refers to signs and other circulated propaganda, including billboards, illustrated newspapers and panoramas themselves.Miles 2005, pp. 14–15 Wordsworth's biggest problem with panoramas was their pretense: the panorama lulled spectators into stupors, inhibiting their ability to imagine things for themselves. Wordsworth wanted people to see the representation depicted in the panorama and appreciate it for what it was – art.
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The ability to imagine oneself as another person is a sophisticated imaginative process. However, the basic capacity to recognize emotions is probably innateHappiness Genes: Unlock the Positive Potential Hidden in Your DNA, New Page Books (April, 2010) and may be achieved unconsciously. Yet it can be trained and achieved with various degrees of intensity or accuracy. Empathy necessarily has a "more or less" quality.
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The ability to imagine future scenarios and adjust decisions accordingly may be important for making intertemporal choices in a flexible manner that accords with delayed consequences. Accumulating evidence suggests that cuing people to imagine the future in vivid detail can encourage preferences for delayed outcomes over immediate ones. This has been extended into real-world decisions such as in reducing the consumption of high-calorie food and increasing pro-environmental behaviours.
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However, his friends enabling him to regain his ability to imagine, Right is able to return to Subarugahama with the help from his mother. As , normally colored red, Right uses the , a sword themed after a railroad track, as his weapon. With the Hyper Ressha, ToQ 1gou can transform into . While possessing Emperor Z's darkness, Right can transform into a dark-colored version of his ToQger form called at the cost of his Imagination.
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The panorama lulled spectators into stupors, inhibiting their ability to imagine things for themselves. Wordsworth wanted people to see the representation and appreciate it for what it was – art. Conversely, J. Jennifer Jones argues Wordsworth was not opposed to the panorama, but rather hesitant about it. In her essay, "Absorbing Hesitation: Wordsworth and the Theory of the Panorama", Jones argues that other episodes of The Prelude have just as much sensory depth as panoramas are supposed to have had.
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Stanislavski's "Magic If" describes an ability to imagine oneself in a set of fictional circumstances and to envision the consequences of finding oneself facing that situation in terms of action.Counsell (1996, 28). These circumstances are "given" to the actor principally by the playwright or screenwriter, though they also include choices made by the director, designers, and other actors. The ensemble of these circumstances that the actor is required to incorporate into a performance are called the "given circumstances".
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You have to be > able to diagnose a disease that you have never seen, or perhaps even read > about, and you have to combine your memory with it. That's why my trainees > are called unicorns, because I used to tell them that there's this imaginary > animal that nobody had ever seen but if you saw one in the ward, you’d > recognize it. Without the ability to imagine, I’m not sure you would quite > know what was going on.
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Mental folding in tasks usually require a series of mental rotations to sequentially fold the object into a new one. Classic mental folding tests are the Paper folding task which is similar to Origami. Origami also requires mental folding by assessing folding a 2D paper enough times to create a 3D figure. Visual penetrative ability is least common spatial visualization task which involves ability to imagine what is inside an object based on the features outside.
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Self-awareness or self-conscious is the innate capacity of human beings to be more sensitive of their environment with what they encounter and experience. Individuals' have the natural ability to act reasonably towards certain situations as they know what the situation is and its consequences. Imagination is of individual minds where thoughts beyond real life occurrences and situations take place. Individuals make sense of their environment and world through their natural ability to imagine beyond reality.
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Earl Conee objects that having an ability to imagine seeing a color is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowing what it is like to see that color, meaning the ability hypothesis does not capture the nature of the new knowledge Mary acquires upon leaving the room. To show that ability is not necessary, Conee cites the example of someone who is able to see colors when she is looking at them, but who lacks the capacity to imagine colors when she is not. He argues that while staring at something that looks red to her, she would have knowledge of what it is like to see red, even though she lacks the ability to imagine what it is like. In order to show precisely that imaginative abilities are not sufficient for knowing what it is like, Conee introduces the following example: Martha, "who is highly skilled at visualizing an intermediate shade that she has not experienced between pairs of shades that she has experienced...happens not to have any familiarity with the shade known as cherry red".
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For one thing, the bishoujo characters with whom the player interacts are less realistic representations than they are iconic signs. Furthermore, character movement is limited to the occasional eye blink, changing facial expression or gesture. These qualities indicate that the realism of bishoujo characters rely heavily on the player's ability to imagine them. Exaggerated postures and expressions speed recognition of character feelings and dispositions while the action described at the bottom of the page shapes the player's fluid conception of the character icon.
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Using investigative research into design, Cibic Workshop observes the built environment from a different perspective and on a different scale. The individual becomes the central focus, along with his/her complex system of relationships, his/her ability to imagine and invent, to discover new opportunities and to take advantage of change. From 2010, Cibicworkshop, began to focus more heavily on alternative sustainable project types aimed at enhancing whole local areas and defining new cultural, emotional and environmental awareness of public space.
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In such a world, the protagonist lives by only timidly striving for basic desires, food, sleep, and sex. Kim Um-Ji narrates such characters’ lives that are meaningless, repetitive, and without any achievements, through a concise style of writing, and the repetition of discontinuous scenes. By portraying the view of the inner side of the protagonist who has lost the ability to imagine for the future, the author evokes the instability of young people in their 20s and 30s.Minumsa. Retrieved 2017-5-10.
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He has remarkably keen vision and hearing. He is skilled in mimicry, copying the voice of Hook and the ticking of the clock in the crocodile. Peter has the ability to imagine things into existence and he is able to feel danger when it is near. In Peter and Wendy, Barrie states that the Peter Pan legend Mrs Darling heard as a child was that when children died, he accompanied them part of the way to their destination so they would not be frightened.
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Thief marked the feature film debut of Michael Mann as director, screenwriter and executive producer, after five years in television drama. Mann made his directorial debut with the TV movie The Jericho Mile. This was partly shot in Folsom Prison. Mann says that influenced the writing of Thief: > It probably informed my ability to imagine what Frank's life was like, where > he was from, and what those 12 or 13 years in prison were like for him.. The > idea of creating his character, was to have somebody who has been outside of > society.
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Reflective Parenting is a theory of parenting developed from the work of psychoanalyst Peter Fonagy and his colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Fonagy introduced the concept of “reflective functioning”, which is defined as the ability to imagine mental states in self and others. Through this capacity for reflection, we develop the ability to understand our own behavioral responses and the responses of others as a meaningful attempt to communicate those inner mental states. As Fonagy describes it, “reflective function is the… uniquely human capacity to make sense of each other”.
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Holmes then explains the details of the case step-by-step to the satisfaction of the Colonel, Watson, and Inspector Gregory. Gregory is one of the more competent police detectives Holmes works with in the course of his career. He conducts a thorough investigation of the crime before Holmes's arrival, and gathers all the evidence Holmes needs to solve the case. Holmes notes that Gregory is "an extremely good officer", and observes that the only quality he lacks is imagination—the ability to imagine what might have happened on a given occasion, and act on this intuition.
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These are: allow for diversity, allow for historicity and a knowledge culture, as well as appropriate systems for storage and dissemination. A short paper entitled "It's difficult to innovate: The death of the tenured professor and the birth of the knowledge entrepreneur" (Bouchikhi & Kimberly, 2001) has been published in the Human Relations journal. The paper describes a near future where knowledge entrepreneurs are "working under a diversity of employment contracts and attachments" (Bouchikhi & Kimberly, 2001, p. 82). Therefore, "knowledge entrepreneurs will be hired and compensated based on their ability to imagine, execute, and use of the results of research to develop original educational products".
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As a member of the psychological division, his research focused on developing psychological recruiting tests for would-be aviators. The tests he designed tested for reaction times, ability to imagine completions of curves presented visually, and the ability to sense a gradual tilting of one's own body. Edward L. Thorndike pooled Stratton's results with other studies to statistically analyze and correlate weak performance to a poor flying record. Part of this research was carried out in the spring of 1918 with Captain Henmon at Kelly Field, and the army thought enough of the results to allow the tests for checking recruits in four new units.
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He believes that as long as there are different wealth classes these unfortunate aspects of society are always going to remain. Chapter 5 - Framing Individual Mobility and Attainment Chapter 5 addresses the recurring thoughts about how low-income African-American men make sense of mobility and attainment in American society. Its main focus is to help determining what we can do to enhance these men's thoughts on advancement in society. Through the information acquired during the interviews, it seems as though the men's ability to imagine aspects of life that are present further out in society such as mobility barriers and discrimination are often limited by what they have experienced in Near West Side.
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Thus, historians must quickly depart from available evidence and comment based on how things ought to have worked, or based on evidence from previous and later periods, on inductive reasoning. As in any field where available evidence is sparse, the historian's ability to imagine the 4th and 5th centuries will play as important a part in shaping our understanding as the available evidence, and thus be open for endless interpretation. The end of the Western Roman Empire traditionally has been seen by historians to mark the end of the Ancient Era and beginning of the Middle Ages. More recent schools of history, such as Late Antiquity, offer a more nuanced view from the traditional historical narrative.
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In her research Maguire seeks to place episodic memory in the context of wider cognition so as to understand how common brain areas, and possibly common processes, support such disparate functions. In this way she hopes to gain novel and fundamental insights into the mechanisms that are involved. Her team uses standard whole brain and high resolution structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in conjunction with behavioural testing and neuropsychological examination of amnesic patients to pursue their aims. They mainly employ ecologically valid or 'real life' experimental paradigms to examine brain-behaviour relationships; examples include using virtual reality to examine navigation, investigating autobiographical memories of people's personal past experiences, and their ability to imagine fictitious and future scenes and events.
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While unable to recall this incident, Johnson comes close to yielding, until he watches a security video of Halpern entering the sphere herself. Rejecting the notion, Halpern decides that Johnson is an imminent threat and defends herself by planting potent explosives around the spacecraft and habitat, and then attempts to suffocate Johnson by manipulating the habitat's life-support system. Escaping from the habitat, Johnson goes to the spacecraft and enters the presence of the sphere, then the sphere itself. Inside the sphere, he finds a large sea of translucent "foam," and has a conversation in his thoughts with some sort of entity that speaks in cryptic riddles, who eventually tells Johnson that the greatest power humans possess is the ability to imagine things.
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In the verses, the lyrics complain about how humans are constrained by unjust social conventions which not only limit individuals, but also the society that imposes the constraints. Blaney finds the verses full of despair, replacing Ono's earlier ability to imagine a better world with a view that human existence is meaningless. But the refrain provides some hope: :Wood becomes a flute when it's loved :Reach for yourself and your battered mates :Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken :Look in the mirror and see your shattered face To Kahana, this suggests that institutions can be transformed just as objects can, although when making these transformations it is critical to "use both love and violence creatively." On Some Time in New York City, Ono provides the lead vocals with Lennon providing harmony during the refrain.
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She also has a very spiky nose (pointed out by Maud in A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch). Various commentaries have noted that Ethel's primary weakness as a student is that, which she is able to easily follow the rules and perform new spells after the demonstration, she lacks the ability to imagine and improvise when given free rein. This was demonstrated most clearly in The Worst Witch to the Rescue, when she was the student who performed worst in the art class and had no ideas whatsoever for a summer project to research a spell of the student's choice as she lacked a framework for her to start studying in, in contrast to Mildred who not only performed best in art but had even created a completely new spell for the project.
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Thor #364–366 (Feb. – Apr. 1986) He then involved the X-Men and Alpha Flight in a plot to gain favor with "Those Who Sit Above in Shadow" by trying to prove that he could do a truly good deed by offering to grant the wishes of the two teams—such as giving Puck a normal body while granting Rogue the ability to touch again—but failed the test after trying to force the gifts on the heroes after they rejected them, the two teams learning that these enhanced powers—and the further powers that Loki would grant to the world—would deprive those who received the gifts of the ability to imagine and create new things, essentially destroying what it meant to be human.X-Men & Alpha Flight #1–2 (Dec.
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Chalmers considers responses along the lines of the "ability hypothesis" objection (described above) to be the most promising objections, but unsuccessful: even if Mary does gain a new ability to imagine or recognize colors, she would also necessarily gain factual knowledge about the colors she now sees, such as the fact of how the experience of seeing red relates to the physical brain states underlying it. He also considers arguments that knowledge of what it is like to see red and of the underlying physical mechanisms are actually knowledge of the same fact, just under a different "mode of presentation", meaning Mary did not truly gain new factual knowledge. Chalmers rejects these, arguing that Mary still necessarily gains new factual knowledge about how the experience and the physical processes relate to one another, i.e. a fact about exactly what kind of experience is caused by those processes.
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