Introduction

Kinesic Humor ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190930066.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Guillemette Bolens

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Human Beings ◽

Knowing How ◽

Humor In Literature

The cognitive ability to process kinesic stimuli is nonverbal. Sensorimotor concepts are predictive and operate primarily outside of language. Human beings are able to perform a precise gesture without knowing how to account for it verbally. In literature, verbal artists work with the connections afforded in their language between sensorimotor and verbal concepts. In turn, the act of reading their texts taps into readers’ kinesic intelligence and their ability to connect a verbal concept of movement to a sensorial and motor concept. When writers play with such connections, kinesic humor in literature is liable to be experienced. In such instances, shifts in rhythm, tonicity, and kinesthetic intensity are paramount within readers’ perceptual simulations. While perceptual simulations are the prime trigger of an experience of humor, they generally remain pre-reflective. They can, however, become a focus of reflective attention. The introduction to Kinesic Humor provides a theory for this claim, and substantiates it with preliminary literary examples.

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A Different Kind of Animal

10.23943/princeton/9780691195902.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Boyd

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Cultural Adaptation ◽

Dominant Species ◽

Large Scale ◽

Human Beings ◽

Unique Combination ◽

Essential Ingredient ◽

Princeton University

Human beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than all the rest. But this book argues that culture—our ability to learn from each other—has been the essential ingredient of our remarkable success. The book shows how a unique combination of cultural adaptation and large-scale cooperation has transformed our species and assured our survival—making us the different kind of animal we are today. The book is based on the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, featuring challenging responses across the chapters.

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Al-Qur'an Views Relating to Environmental Conservation

Daun Jurnal Ilmiah Pertanian dan Kehutanan ◽

10.33084/daun.v5i1.319 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Ariyadi Ariyadi

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

Environmental Condition ◽

Human Beings ◽

Knowing How ◽

Know How ◽

Human Needs ◽

Good For ◽

The Universe

Allah SWT has created a variety of nature on this earth. The plant that God created with various benefits. Wrong is for human needs. Humans as God's creatures also need plants for them. In fact, the essence is the most perfect worshiper of God, but they will still need the plant. The universe is the greatest gift to man, for that Allah Almighty enjoined man to make good use of it and we must continue to give thanks to Him. In reality, however, there is corruption here and there from the actions of the hypocrites. Human beings as perfect beings who are mind-wielded by God should use their reason for everything good for themselves and for others. Including plant or tree maintenance for the sake of their environmental sustainability. In addition, we also should not neglect the land because the land can be used for something good. the environment taught by Rasulullah SAW based on revelation, so many we encounter scientific verses of the Qur'an that discusses the environment. The Quranic messages about the environment are very clear and perspective. This authors' journal will try to discuss extensively al-Quran and the environment, since al-Qur'an has explained the importance of safeguarding the environment by laying its foundations and principles globally. Purpose of problem First: Knowing what and how the current environmental condition. Second: Knowing how important it is to maintain and maintain the environment. Third: Know how to keep the environment as it is in al-Qur'an.

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Utilitarianism and Toleration

Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0031819100039012 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 62 (242) ◽

pp. 421-434 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jonathan Harrison

Keyword(s):

Free Action ◽

Human Beings ◽

Knowing How ◽

The Government

I shall (stipulatively) define a free action as one a man is able to do. Various things limit a man's freedom. The most unpopular is the government, or other people who have the power of preventing us from doing what we want. But our freedom is also circumscribed by lack of physical and mental strength or skill, including that of knowing how to manage other human beings. Other factors limiting our freedom are our ignorance, our passions and our habits. Some men say they value their freedom from these things, especially their freedom from passion, so much that they would prefer to be in prison or on the rack rather than be a slave to them, but one suspects they exaggerate.

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NALAR BAROKAH MADRASAH ANTARA FAKTA ATAU SUGESTI

Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura ◽

10.22373/jiif.v18i2.3451 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 282

Author(s):

Husnan Abrori

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Academic Community ◽

Human Potential ◽

Human Beings ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

Education Needs ◽

The Times ◽

Contemporary Education

Barokah is an integral part in the world of madrasah education, every second always appear the word from the academic community and customernya. The shift in the paradigm of contemporary education that places an educational output is the final process of transformation in the learning process in madrasah is sometimes broken by a public opinion that all processes are meaningless without baraka. The placement of the supernatural powers above a factual process has become a characteristic of madrasah education from the past to the present time, it is a belief that mensugesti all human beings and knock down the foundation of reasoning that education needs process and the carrying capacity in humanizing humanity or developing human potential accordingly nature that develops naturally and dynamically to suit the needs of the times. The cognitive ability that becomes the icon of life is no longer so urgent as a human driving pilot to fly higher to achieve success, let alone psychomotor no longer be a book to read in the curriculum of life, but different from affective is another face of barokah, in other words who is good ahlaknya then barokah no longer be sugesti and dreams perforated but a real dream that actualized in the success of life in the world and akherat.

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Steps to an Ecology of Knowledge: Continuity and Change in the Genealogy of Knowledge

Episteme ◽

10.3366/epi.2011.0007 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 67-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Axel Gelfert

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Adaptive Response ◽

The Other ◽

Ecological Perspective ◽

Human Beings ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Selective Pressures ◽

Human Trait ◽

The One

The present paper argues for a more complete integration between recent “genealogical” approaches to the problem of knowledge and evolutionary accounts of the development of human cognitive capacities and practices. A structural tension is pointed out between, on the one hand, the fact that the explicandum of genealogical stories is a specifically human trait and, on the other hand, the tacit acknowledgment, shared by all contributors to the debate, that human beings have evolved from non-human beings. Since humans differ from their predecessors in more ways than just the lack of a particular concept or cognitive ability, this casts doubt on the widely shared assumption (the “Constancy Assumption”) that, when constructing a genealogical narrative for a particular concept (e.g., our contemporary concept of knowledge), it is permissible to hold all other factors (e.g., individual “on-board” cognitive capacities) fixed. What is needed instead, I argue, is an ecological perspective that views knowledge as an adaptive response to an evolutionary constellation that allows for a diversity of selective pressures. Several examples of specific conceptual pressures at different stages in human evolution are discussed.

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Further Societal Implications

Invisible Mind ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262035965.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Lasana T. Harris

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Social Context ◽

Medical Care ◽

Cognitive Ability ◽

Societal Implications ◽

Human Beings ◽

Environmental Pressures ◽

Group Competition ◽

The Social ◽

The Brain

The tenth and concluding chapter revisits the classic equation introduced in the first chapter, and wonders whether the terms in the equation could be further specified. Specifically, it asks whether the social context could be further specified. It argues that the brain is continuously evolving, and modern environmental pressures will continue to shape social cognition. It explores two other contexts where flexible social cognition may be necessary: medical care and non-violent inter-group competition. Finally, it imagines how social cognition might shape human beings over the next hundred years given technological advancements that facilitate and hamper this most important cognitive ability.

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Comparison of Metaphorical Expressions of the Heart Between Chinese and English

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v14n3p25 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 25

Author(s):

Gong Cheng

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Semantic Analysis ◽

Body Part ◽

Body Language ◽

The Body ◽

Human Beings ◽

Bodily Experiences ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The Relationship ◽

Chinese And English

This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term “heart” in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The comparison between Chinese and English shows that there exist some similarities and differences, which can be accounted for both by the commonality of bodily experiences unique to human beings and by the discrepancy of cultural modes from different countries. Finally, a revised model depicting the relationship between body, language, culture, and cognitive ability has been proposed.

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