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And then finally, the fifth item on my checklist is the political, economic, social and cultural factors in the society that make it more or less likely that the society will perceive and solve its environmental problems.
How could societies not perceive their impacts on the environments and stop in time?
And within the last couple of years, it's been obvious that the elite in the business world correctly perceive that they can advance their short-term interest by doing things that are good for them but bad for society as a whole, such as draining a few billion dollars out of Enron and other businesses.
When everyday objects or celestial bodies release energy to their environment, we perceive that as heat, and can use their energy emission to measure their temperature.
I have a little bit of news for you that maybe you'll perceive as bad, but I think it's actually very good, which is that you are very much like these guys.
We treated two pages, both spreads, as a one page, because that's how readers perceive it.
And what I was trying to do there was direct your eye in the space, so that you would perceive the geometry in a different way, and that the casework wouldn't break up the space.
Media, for example, more and more often use trigger warnings at the top of articles which some people may perceive as offensive or troubling.
When we have to make fast decisions, autopilot brain kicks in, and we rely on our learned behaviors, our reflexes, our cognitive biases, to help us perceive and respond quickly.
But in fact, emotions are an all-systems alert that change what we remember, what kind of decisions we make, and how we perceive things.
So to perceive this voice, it first has to travel to your ears.
So, when you walk up to a door and you open it, what you compulsively have to do to perceive is to make decisions, thousands of decisions about the size of the room, the walls, the height, the objects in this room.
But what creationist and empiricists both ignore is that, in that sense, no one's ever seen a Bible either, that the eye only detects light, which we don't perceive.
And they don't perceive even those as what they really are, namely electrical crackles.
So we perceive nothing as what it really is.
And you could basically reformulate what I said earlier, about how compassion is deployed and the golden rule is deployed, by just saying, well, compassion most naturally flows along non-zero-sum channels where people perceive themselves as being in a potentially win-win situation with some of their friends or allies.
Implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.
We're going to perceive it as a good thing to go after.
It's just that being a human, the way we train to perceive the reality creates this meaning.
The smallest sound you can perceive moves your eardrum just four atomic diameters.
If we had, our brains probably would perceive rocks as full of empty space.
And science also shows that when we see or perceive fairness, our brain releases a substance that gives us pleasure, proper joy.
But when we perceive unfairness, we feel pain ... even greater pain than the same type of pain as if I really hurt myself.
Still, his film shows us the power that can be generated by people coming together to fight something they perceive as evil.
As has been said by other commentators it is ironic that it took an English director to perceive this fact, and then develop this simple theme into a western like no other you're ever likely to see again.
Also, despite other reviews, I think this movie and the music was faithful to Anne Rice's portrayal and ethos, at least as I perceive it.
I have seen the show live twice in Chicago and my only problem with the production was the fact that I was able to perceive only fragments of what was going on.
The film is about what we perceive as real and what is real, and how the two can be so difficult to distinguish from one another.
Nevertheless an intriguing film whose overall impression of mystery and dread lurking just below the surface of what we perceive as 'reality' will stay with you.
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