"Our philosophy as a site is that there are a lot of things added when humans participate," said Michael Sha, who started the company with Mr. Conrad in 2006.
To maximize the strengths of both humans and computers, human computation, a computer science technique that is involved in the design or analysis of information processing systems in which humans participate as computational elements [1], has been widely studied.
Although, the work presented in this paper merely scratches the surface on open call based software engineering fora, the study, nonetheless, presents a different version of humans participating in these online platforms.
The main issue is what the causal connection is between humans' willing and acting and their salvation or damnation, and predestination or reprobation: do humans participate in or contribute to their own salvation and damnation, or is God's will the sole cause?
When he gave a lecture later that summer at the Library of Congress, Lomax took the radical step of playing the recordings, so that scholars who studied folk songs as historical artifacts could hear the voices of humans participating in a living culture.
These results are reminiscent of choice patterns seen in humans participating in decision-making tasks, where the relative attractiveness of two options often depends on the presence or absence of a third option [3], [4].
Figure 2 shows a age-based longitudinal comparison between cholesterol levels in normal humans participating in the Framingham Heart Study (Abbott et al. 1983) and captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes Primate Center (Herndon and Tigges 2001).
DNA methylation, an important type of epigenetic modification in humans, participates in crucial cellular processes, such as embryonic development, X-inactivation, genomic imprinting and chromosome stability.
There are a lot of culturally and historically "normal" activities that we as humans have participated in, but that doesn't mean that we should continue them.
And if they eventually resorted to philosophical language -- the book is rich in reflections about the limits of language in speaking of God -- it was because their opponents had used philosophical language to deny what the Nicene theologians were convinced the church had experienced: "the paradox and mystery of God becoming human so that humans might participate in the divine".
