Word: inputs
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...have received significant support fromwithin the national networks, but am still working[on the proposal] and would welcome anysuggestions, input and assistance," Dugger said...
Relations between the University and PBHA have grown strained over the past year. PBHA members have accusedthe University of robbing the organization of itsindependence, through both the creation of a newdean for public service and a failure toadequately consider student input...
...think the students have been working very,very hard to create the dialogue in good faith,"Pan said. "I think we're working very hard tocreate a productive dialogue or conversation thatis serious, where there is a real exchange ofideas and not token gestures of input...
...specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose ebb and flow we experience as feelings and emotions. Memory, too, is involved, along with language-the way humans translate concepts into symbolic form...
Until recently, Zeki believed that without the area known as V1, the part of the brain that first receives input from the retina, conscious visual perception would be impossible. V1 is a sort of clearinghouse, a place where incoming signals are split up and sent to the sites where they can be processed. But one patient, a 38-year-old man whose V1 for one eye was wiped out in an automobile accident, is also quite clearly aware of motion seen by the "blind" eye even when the good eye is covered. "We find," says Zeki, "that he is consciously...