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Now to put some neurobiological meat on this abstract model, we constructed a simple one-dimensional world for our favorite subject, fruit flies.
So Mendel had this idea of a gene as an abstract thing, and Darwin built a whole theory that depended on them existing, and then Watson and Crick actually looked and found one.
We get it in the abstract.
So this one was tagged "Abstract."
And then this is, again, the abstract version, which ends up getting a little bit crazy.
It's an objective truth about the form of two, the abstract form.
It's not like its relation to some abstract form.
But it was a fairly abstract discussion, and at some point when there was a pause, Octavio said, "Paul, maybe we could watch the TEDTalk."
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.
Let's remind ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept.
ELA: You can get at some pretty abstract concepts with this sort of thing.
And I do not mean that in some abstract, generic sense.
Big ideas, from that abstract, nonlinear place in our consciousness that is the culmination of all of our experiences.
And the idea was to sort of contrast something very cold and distant and abstract like the universe into the familiar form of a teddy bear, which is very comforting and intimate.
And that tweet had a link to the "New York Times" blog, where a guest blogger translated the study findings from a "Live Science" article, which got its original information from the Harvard School of Public Health news site, which cited the actual study abstract, which summarized the actual study published in an academic journal.
That process is entirely abstract and very, very unusual.
I mentioned earlier the fact that music is a different capacity because it's abstract.
These communities of cells, again, began to abstract information.
Now it's really hard to think about anything abstract like this without a good concrete metaphor.
And I think that's because we think about these pieces of data in this stranded, abstract way.
In my past projects I've often worked in serial form, documenting things that have the appearance of being comprehensive through a determined title and a determined presentation, but in fact, are fairly abstract.
It wasn't abstract stuff in a brochure or in a movie.
For many of us here HIV is not an abstract threat.
We can abstract them and to create something that is new.
If we abstract this process, and simplify it as much as possible, then we could start with a single sheet of paper, one surface, and we could make a fold and divide the surface into two surfaces.
I took the Copenhagen subway map and I renamed all the stations to abstract musical provocations, and the players, who are synchronized with stopwatches, follow the timetables, which are listed in minutes past the hour.
The workers I got to know had a curiously abstract relationship with the product of their labor.
No one's going to call this well-lit, good lighting, and in fact, as nice as these pictures are, and the reason we take them is I knew I was going to have to testify in court, and a picture is worth more than a thousand words when you're trying to communicate numbers, abstract concepts like lux, the international measurement of illumination, the Ishihara color perception test values.
These neurons are also involved in the way you can assign value to literally abstract ideas, and I put some symbols up here that we assign value to for various reasons.
What's more, we abstract repeat patterns and recognize them.
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