But maybe we are living in part of it today through our immaterial connection to the world," says Perrin, who studied in Paris, but has been based in LA (a city built on dreams) for almost two decades.
It noted that the fact that "the Times was paid for publishing the advertisement is as immaterial in this connection as is the fact that newspapers and books are sold". In 1975, the Court inched closer to providing First Amendment protection for commercial speech in Bigelow v. Virginia, holding that Virginia could not criminalize advertisements in its newspapers for abortions in New York.
Nature's spa amenities are largely immaterial: solitude and human connections, spiritual renewal and priceless views — even adventure.
It is also immaterial where the physical connection of the wiretap takes place.
The active intellect is immaterial, but the acquired intellect has some connection to matter "because it perfects (mutammim) the material intelligibles" (Ibn Bâjja 1946, p. 19, l. 10).
It also includes the sale of the stock of an AOL subsidiary (unspecified which in the statement) "upon which AOL expects to record a capital loss for tax purposes and as a result, cash taxes in connection with the sale should be immaterial".
He famously identified the pineal gland as the point of connection, though how a gland could have access to an immaterial mind is far from clear.
Such a restriction is not immaterial for Cravath, as Mr. White has vast experience in securities law and deep connections to the S.E.C., having served as the director of the commission's corporation finance unit from 2006 to 2008".
He said the connections between Safeway, its directors, and Kohlberg Kravis were so small as to be immaterial.
We tend to think of memories as immaterial, but in animal brains some forms of memory involve the laying down of new connections in a network of neurons.
If dualism is rejected, consciousness becomes a problem for materialists, faced with the paradox of explaining how an apparently immaterial phenomenon could emerge from the all-too-material 1.5kg of nerve cells and their connections that comprise the human brain.
