What is "configurations"

Usage examples of "configurations".

Mereological sums exist not only as configurations of physical objects in space but as sequences, or continua, of mental and physical events in time.

Nevertheless, the perceptions of those attributes are regarded as emergent properties of complex configurations of atoms that exist independently of our sensory perceptions.

Particularly with regard to the human mind, the closure principle seems to be incompatible with experience, for our conscious mental processes, which have not been demonstrated to be composed of configurations of mass and energy, certainly do appear to influence human behavior.

To extend this line of reasoning, organic, biological events are regarded as emergent properties or functions of complex configurations of inorganic chemical processes, and those, in turn, as emergent properties or functions of complex configurations of atoms and elementary particles.

Only physical phenomena have come to be regarded as real, while other phenomena that are not made up of configurations of matter and energy have come to be regarded as unreal.

Life and consciousness originally arose in this universe purely by accident, from complex configurations of matter and energy.

Only the physical universe exists, and everything consists of nothing more than configurations of the basic physical elements of nature.

Thus, a human being is merely a physical organism, and consciousness is nothing more than an emergent property of specific configurations of the physical elements of the body.

It is because of this immense number of functionally different configurations of the human brain that no two humans, even identical twins raised together, can ever be really very much alike.

They were not sound configurations, but real objects that would not cease to exist if the transmitters and generators were shut off.

They were only sound configurations like the buildings they lived in and like the beasts he had fought in the arena.