In Descartes's view, mental phenomena, despite their immateriality, can be both causes and effects of physical phenomena ("dualistic interactionism").
Most patently, it applies to any philosophy accepting the notion of an infinite, personal God, the immortality of the soul, or the immateriality of the intellect and will.
"In Ascension, for example, what interests me is the idea of immateriality becoming an object, which is exactly what happens in Ascension: the smoke becomes a column.
A lot of the riddling screenplay created an aura of mystery around the familiar idea of the immateriality of our existence, a notion that has been at large in one form or another since Plato's Myth of the Cave (the perceived world as nothing more than shadows on the wall).
Just think of Heaven, he implies, and its soaring immateriality will suffuse the here and now, making a miracle of physical existence.
Of course, the cake itself is of Hostess Twinkie immateriality — the "Gossip Girl" books are the lightest of light reading.
Its immateriality plays beautifully against the shifting roughness, densities and tonalities of the reds and yellows, making their every drip of paint count, suspending their fiery hues in a different kind of heat.
Video's light-filled immateriality and the ease of scene-changing seem especially suited to the way Wagner's narrative roams through time and space — to spheres both natural and imagined — with little regard for logistics.
5. Or, as long as the museum is exploring immateriality, maybe it could simply declare that it had decided to acquire the ideal, Platonic forms of all the physical objects in its collection, instantly doubling its holdings at no cost, a museum coup.
"There are a few artists who are making live action that is based in sculpture, but what sets him apart is his purist insistence on the immateriality — or ephemeral materiality — of the work, so it crystallizes and disperses again, so there is no trace left at all".
Mortals should not have access to such clusters of immateriality, it was thought.
