A firsthand familiarity with the code of life is bound to confront us with the emotional, moral and political baggage associated with the idea of our essential nature.
Curiously, the recipe intro made no mention of the almond paste, so I had no idea of how essential it actually was.
Sophie outlined her idea of the essential ingredients: a large well-laden picnic hamper, good weather, "maybe a rug on the grassy bank of an idyllic river?" It was then that the idea sprang into my mind.
Moreover, new actualists reconceive the idea of an "essential" property of a concrete object.
The same is true of Kant's views on consciousness of self; cognitive science has paid no attention to non-ascriptive identification of self and the idea of the essential indexical.
This supports the idea of an essential competition and conflict between the 'centrifugal logic' of state-centric formalised bureaucracies and a 'centripetal logic [which] proceeds in terms of relations, movements and flows of people, animals, resources and tradeable commodities' (Korf et al. 2015, p. 885).
The QSAR model thus developed helps in quantification of the extent of contribution of the various molecular fragments towards the activity of the molecules, while the 3D pharmacophore model provides a brief idea of the essential molecular features that help the molecules to interact with the neighbouring free radicals.
However, in the light of empirical results from developmental psychology, developmental biology and neuroscience, the idea of an essential inconstant, material nucleus an integrated representational system distributed over changing patterns of synaptic connections seems reasonable.
Here is one very particular idea of the essentials of dance and choreography, one with a fine New York lineage.
The problem was that we had a very different idea of what was essential".
