IDEAS IMMANENT IN NERVOUS ACTIVITY WARREN S. MCCULLOCH AND WALTER PITTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, COLLEGE OF MEDICINI~, ... Let us define the peripheral afyerents of ~ as the neurons of ~( with no axons synapsing upon them. Let N1, --., Np denote the ac- tions of such neurons and N~+I, N~+~, ..., N~ those of the rest. ...

Feb 05, 2014 · The Immanent Frame. The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. ... The second ground for skepticism is that religion has served to define the western idea of the secular, and remains deeply entangled with it. For critics, this is visible in three different ways. First, the secular ...

Dynamism definition, any of various theories or philosophical systems that seek to explain phenomena of nature by the action of force. See more.

Ineffable definition, incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy. See more.

Pantheists. Nammalvar, one of the twelve Alvars.; Vyasa, writer of Mahabharata.; Laozi, name traditionally given to the writer of the Tao Te Ching, and considered the founder of philosophical Taoism.; Heraclitus (c. 535 BCE–c. 475 BCE), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor.He was of distinguished parentage.

Aug 03, 2015 · For me as a professor of religion and chair of a department in the year 2015, I wonder about how best to "pitch" a religion major to undergraduate students, many of whom come into college thinking about--in too many cases more like obsessing about--pre-formed and fairly rigid professional aspirations and trajectories.

Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god or goddess. Pantheist belief does not recognize a distinct personal god, anthropomorphic or otherwise, but instead characterizes a broad range of doctrines differing in forms of relationships between reality and divinity. Pantheistic concepts date back …

Sep 17, 2011 · define a design for learning thus: Definition: A design for learning. is a constellation of artifacts (which can be called learning materials) ... or an immanent design for learning coded into the material, or both. Thus, as we have already underlined, there is a close relationship between the notions ...

SankarAcArya is the most important teacher of the advaita school of vedAnta, and his commentaries to the upanishads, the bhagavad-gItA and the brahmasUtras define the parameters of advaita thought. However, it must be remembered that all vedAnta philosophy really goes back to the upanishads, and SankarAcArya is regarded as a pre-eminent teacher ...

Sep 10, 2007 · 1. The Word ‘Metaphysics’ and the Concept of Metaphysics. The word ‘metaphysics’ is notoriously hard to define. Twentieth-century coinages like ‘meta-language’ and ‘metaphilosophy’ encourage the impression that metaphysics is a study that somehow “goes beyond” physics, a study devoted to matters that transcend the mundane concerns of Newton …