Sentence examples for conscious agent from inspiring English sources

I believe biologists are trained to avoid such phrasing, which suggests a conscious agent deliberately manipulating DNA through the generations.

The problem? Conservatives considered Ike at best a Democrat and at worst (according to the founder of the John Birch Society) "a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy".

In a tract titled "The Politician," he attacked President Dwight D. Eisenhower as "a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy" who had been serving the plot "all of his adult life".

Before Descartes, the prevailing wisdom, largely derived from Greece, had regarded the soul both as the motive force of all human physiological functions and as the conscious agent of volition, cognition, and reason.

Robert Welch, who ran the Birchers, had charged that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in World War II, was a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy".

The Chilean novelist José Donoso (Class of 1951) once called Fuentes "the first active and conscious agent of the internationalization of the Spanish American novel". Frequently honored in Latin America and the United States, Fuentes received the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Award from King Juan Carlos of Spain in 1988.

They sought to transform individuals into life actors– self conscious agents of social change.

Lacking any real understanding of the physiological causes of death, we pointed instead to the entities we knew could make things happen: conscious (or putatively conscious) agents.

This writing links to contemporary ideas of "more than human agency"—the awareness and acceptance that there are forces and knowledges beyond the human, that the animals we share places with are active conscious agents in their lives, observing and thinking about us as we observe and think about them.

There, a much more significant role is given to humans as conscious agents shaping and directing technology development towards sustainability transitions.

Like the capacity of human society itself to act, in Dawkins's terms, as a kind of gene pool for thoughts and belief, we are today the conscious agents of our own delight and distraction in a way never previously possible.