As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints, translates as an "image of the floating world, " and the scent does seem to evoke an image for me of irises floating in a secluded lake.
It is about the capacity of fundamentalists to insist the the world conform to their own image of themselves.
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And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .
Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
What has arisen for elites is social enterprise as the solution, a remaking of the world in the image that has made them successful.
When I gave a TEDGlobal talk on femto photography in June, I began with a reference to Doc Edgerton, a very popular MIT professor of electrical engineering who, in 1964, wowed the world with an image of a bullet in midair, having just passed through an apple.
If her technique is hardly more than that of a home movie, her strategy is complex: the myth of the unimpeachable innocence of wild children against an uncaring world converges with the public image that Le Besco, the actress, projects.
But another extremely challenging task facing the Bush administration is the need to improve the image of the United States around the world, a task made more difficult by allegations of prisoner abuse that have put the Bush administration on the defensive.
When he became president in 1913, he boasted that he could transform Latin America, if not the rest of the world, into constitutional democracies in America's image.
He was the first rock star to tap the inner rebel in America's (and much of the world's) teenagers, an image that still resonates with the young crowd today.
The hype of Davos does not present a desired image to the world...something is wrong.
So when presented with any image of the world, what we see is what would have been useful to see in the past.
The image of the world's most famous disabled athlete back on his unmistakable running blades was likely now to become more and more common again.
Cultural inertia often stands in the way of those politicians who aspire to remake the world in their own ideological image.
Its businesses have played a critical role in setting the tone for Spain's image abroad and the pace of its involvement around the world.
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However, the combination of Hilton's personal image with the holiest city in the Muslim world has riled some in the conservative kingdom.
Thursday's announcement promises to change the image of battlefields around the world, as debate rages on whether women can fight like men.
Chavez's image in the world is that of a highly distasteful leader.
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Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
Along with her husband, King George VI, the pair made their mark during World War Two by helping sustain national morale and helping resurrect the shattered image of the royal family after the preceding constitutional crisis.
The media coverage of the G8 is expected to boost Northern Ireland's image across the world.
While we broke the news of the ZuneHD to the world as we did the original, we have no way to verify the authenticity of this new image originating at Windows Mobile Power User and now trotting itself around the Intersphere fueled by the adrenaline of fanboy fantasies.
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America believed it could re-shape the world in its own image, that its offer of freedom would be seized on gratefully.
Thanks in large part to homegrown labels that are not only gaining a strong following in Singapore, but are also presenting a stylish image of the city to the world at large.
This debate has crystallized around the defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, whose chest-high tackle on Spain's Xabi Alonso in South Africa was the iconic image of the country's World Cup final defeat.
The initiative is aimed at harnessing the positive image given of Africa by the exploits of its footballers during the recent World Cup.
And Jules Stenson, former features editor of the News of the World, said Harry's popularity -- which endures largely because of his Jack-the-Lad image, not in spite of it -- means he is unlikely to suffer any lasting damage from the incident.
Women do not lord it over the men in some mirror image of patriarchy but men and women live as equals, albeit in a world that orbits the mother not the father.
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