By Oliver Sacks To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.
The piece was György… To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need… A few weeks ago, in a rebel headquarters near Aleppo, an officer in the Free Syrian Army showed me a map of an offensive.
To provide an explanation, we need more detailed data on energy consumption.
However, there may be another explanation: We need this many receptors simply to sense the molecules of interest, not to disambiguate all possible mixtures of those molecules.
"There are other explanations, and we need to look at those," Mr. Blewitt said.
"We need an explanation and we need it promptly," he said.
It seems as much of an explanation as we need for the differences between the sun-shot, crystalline vistas of the Hudson River School painters, and the more subtle, inward sublimities of the Chinese landscape tradition.
On the one hand, we must seek to explain everything in nature in mechanical terms; on the other, some objects in nature resist mechanical explanation and we need to appeal to teleology in order to understand them (§70, 387).
(BP 2 5, BOA §4.1, p 340).) Additionally, Boyle notices that no system of laws can offer a complete explanation: we also need an account of the initial parameters.[40] But then, since they are logically distinct, why not have them chronologically distinct as well?
