Suatu saat, Nabi Khidhir menguji Nabi Musa dalam sebuah soal-jawab. Khidlir
bertanya kepada Musa tentang amal-tindakan yang pahalanya akan
dihadiahkan langsung oleh Tuhan. Jawaban Musa yang diberikan dalam ulasan
panjang lebar dengan penuh percaya diri, ternyata tidak satu pun yang
dibenarkan Khidlir. Ketika Musa tampak kehabisan jawaban, Khidlir lalu
menjelaskan bahwa amal-tindakan yang pahalanya dihadiadkan langsung oleh
Tuhan itu ialah memberi ...
How can we understand a system as complex as the brain? Does the brain use the same operational principles to control physical and mental activities? How can we incorporate in a model what we know and what we do not know about the brain?The connectionist model presented in this book provides tools for addressing such questions. Its nodes represent well-established biological facts combined with observations of the overall behaviors of the system. The model is based on comparing and contrasting brains, computers, and neural networks. It defines a framework for understanding the relationships between the brain and the mind. It can serve both as a starting point for developing Artificial Intelligence applications for all levels of mental activities and as a guide in the search for biological correlates of observed behaviors.
However, the actual withdrawal is based on additional information. If the hand
approached the hot object from above, it will be withdrawn upward. If it
approached the object from below, the withdrawal will be downwards. Other than
the cue, the system has also considered the history of the event. This information
may have been encoded as certain motor neurons being active. The reflex
caused the activation of neurons that control antagonistic movements. In all these
cases, the action ...
Di satu sisi, ia amat menekankan perlunya pengetahuan objektif tentang
kenyataan hidup agama-agama. Namun demikian metodologi yang dipakainya
dalam menatap fakta agama-agama lain, tidak sama persis dengan yang
dilakukan oleh para tokoh aliran Fenomenologi Agama-agama seperti Rudolf
Otto. Kraemer lebih melihat agama-agama lain dari kacamata kekristenan,
sehingga pada akhirnya ia dimampukan untuk lebih melihat diskontinuitas
antara agama-agama lain ...
Certain facts relevant to this aspect of the matter are noted hereunder: Collection'
of State Documents by 'Amr ibn Hazm. § 55. 'Amr ibn Hazm was a celebrated
governor of Yemen appointed by the Holy Prophet. We owe much to his
intellectual acumen. His taste was maintained in his family for many generations,
(As we shall see later, one of his descendants was the governor of Medinah in
the time of the caliph 'Umr ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, and was charged by this caliph to
undertake the ...