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1 absurdity
( plural absurdities) noun absurdidad, absurdotr[əb'sɜːdɪtɪ]noun (pl absurdities)1 disparate nombre masculino1) : absurdo m2) nonsense: disparate m, despropósito mn.• absurdidad s.f.• absurdo s.m.• adefesio s.m.• despropósito s.m.• dislate s.m.• disparate s.m.• esperpento s.m.• irracionalidad s.f.• majadería s.f.• patarata s.f.• ridiculez s.f.əb'sɜːrdəti, əb'sɜːdəti[ǝb'sǝːdɪtɪ]N1) (=quality) lo absurdo2) (=act of madness) locura f, disparate mit would be an absurdity to try — sería una locura or un disparate intentarlo
* * *[əb'sɜːrdəti, əb'sɜːdəti] -
2 absurdo
adj.absurd, nonsensical, irrational, meaningless.m.1 absurdity, nonsense, folly, aberration.2 absurd act, absurdity.* * *► adjetivo1 absurd1 absurdity, nonsense————————1 absurdity, nonsense* * *(f. - absurda)adj.* * *1.ADJ absurdlo absurdo es que... — the ridiculous thing is that...
teatro del absurdo — theatre o (EEUU) theater of the absurd
2.SM absurdity, (piece of) nonsense* * *I- da adjetivo absurd, ridiculousIIlo más absurdo de todo es... — the ridiculous thing about it all is...
* * *= foolish, incongruous, ludicrous, absurd, farcical, meaningless, nonsensical.Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.Ex. The idea is incongruous in our general catalogs where a publication is to be represented by a main entry as an edition of a particular work by a particular author.Ex. Hernandez described the encounter as futile and ludicrous, and concluded that it tallied entirely with Lespran's expectation of it..Ex. Too frequently absurd errors creep past the abstractor who does not know the field.Ex. There is considerable interest in picture books from the social realism of the 70s to the growing interest in fantasy, myth, legend, science fiction and the emphasis on the farcical and absurd aspects of life in the 80s.Ex. Although the isolate numbers for the concepts are correct, these mistakes in the use of facet indicators render this class number meaningless.Ex. Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.----* algo absurdo = nonsense.* lo absurdo = ridiculousness.* * *I- da adjetivo absurd, ridiculousIIlo más absurdo de todo es... — the ridiculous thing about it all is...
* * *= foolish, incongruous, ludicrous, absurd, farcical, meaningless, nonsensical.Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
Ex: The idea is incongruous in our general catalogs where a publication is to be represented by a main entry as an edition of a particular work by a particular author.Ex: Hernandez described the encounter as futile and ludicrous, and concluded that it tallied entirely with Lespran's expectation of it..Ex: Too frequently absurd errors creep past the abstractor who does not know the field.Ex: There is considerable interest in picture books from the social realism of the 70s to the growing interest in fantasy, myth, legend, science fiction and the emphasis on the farcical and absurd aspects of life in the 80s.Ex: Although the isolate numbers for the concepts are correct, these mistakes in the use of facet indicators render this class number meaningless.Ex: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.* algo absurdo = nonsense.* lo absurdo = ridiculousness.* * *absurd, ridiculouseso es a todas luces absurdo that is absolutely preposterous o absurd o ridiculousesto es el colmo de lo absurdo this is totally absurd o the height of absurdityes absurdo que te comportes así it's ridiculous o absurd of you to behave like that1(absurdez): es un absurdo que trates de ocultarlo it's ridiculous o absurd (of you) to try to hide itun absurdo an absurdityreducción al absurdo reductio ad absurdum* * *
absurdo◊ -da adjetivo
absurd, ridiculous
absurdo,-a
I adjetivo
1 absurd: es un argumento completamente absurdo, it's an absolutely absurd line of argument
2 (cosa ridícula) ludicrous: llevaba puesto un absurdo sombrero, she was wearing a ridiculous hat
II sustantivo masculino absurdity, absurd thing
' absurdo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
absurda
- baremo
- mamarrachada
- me
- perfectamente
English:
absurd
- all
- farcical
- ludicrous
- mindless
- nonsensical
- preposterous
- senseless
- sound
- to
- wacky
- absurdity
- fantastic
- wild
* * *absurdo, -a♦ adjabsurd;lo absurdo sería que no lo hicieras it would be absurd for you not to do it♦ nmdecir/hacer un absurdo to say/do something ridiculous o idiotic;reducción al absurdo reductio ad absurdum;el teatro del absurdo the Theatre of the Absurd* * *I adj absurdII m1 absurdity;es un absurdo que it’s absurd that2:teatro del absurdo theater o Br theatre of the absurd* * *absurdo, -da adjdisparatado, ridículo: absurd, ridiculous♦ absurdamente advabsurdo nm: absurdity* * *absurdo adj absurd -
3 locura
f.1 madness.2 crazy idea.3 folly, crazy act, act of madness, piece of folly.* * *1 (perturbación) madness, insanity2 (insensatez) folly\con locura madlyhacer una locura to do something silly¡qué locura! it's mad!* * *noun f.1) folly2) madness* * *SF1) (=demencia) madness, insanity2) (=exceso)¡qué locura! — it's madness!
me gusta con locura — * I'm crazy about it
es una casa de locura — * it's a smashing house *
precios de locura — * fantastic prices
tener o sentir locura por algn — to be crazy about sb
3) (=acto)* * *a) (Med) madness, insanityb) ( insensatez) crazy thing (colloq)c) ( inclinación exagerada)* * *= frenzy, wild thought, absurdity, folly, derangement, madness, insanity, lunacy, bedlam, craziness.Ex. The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.Ex. A wild thought of leaving the DPL shot through her mind and was gone.Ex. It is true that the newspapers sensationalized some of the Community's absurdities and gave prominence to the unpopular practice of disposing of surplus food at taxpayers' expense.Ex. The attempt to train young people in this kind of discrimination seems to me to be a folly, if not a crime.Ex. George Watson Cole refers to his mental derangement and pecuniary embarrassment.Ex. The title of the article is 'Methods and madness of migration to micros'.Ex. The early psychiatric profession believed in the effectiveness of reading as a treatment for insanity.Ex. The article is entitled 'Certifiable lunacy or common sense? Combining your adult and juvenile collections'.Ex. In subsequent years, Bethlem became ' Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.Ex. As for you, try to isolate yourself from all this craziness that have been going around you.----* amar con locura = love + Nombre + to bits.* locuras = zaniness.* parecer una locura = sound + crazy.* * *a) (Med) madness, insanityb) ( insensatez) crazy thing (colloq)c) ( inclinación exagerada)* * *= frenzy, wild thought, absurdity, folly, derangement, madness, insanity, lunacy, bedlam, craziness.Ex: The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.
Ex: A wild thought of leaving the DPL shot through her mind and was gone.Ex: It is true that the newspapers sensationalized some of the Community's absurdities and gave prominence to the unpopular practice of disposing of surplus food at taxpayers' expense.Ex: The attempt to train young people in this kind of discrimination seems to me to be a folly, if not a crime.Ex: George Watson Cole refers to his mental derangement and pecuniary embarrassment.Ex: The title of the article is 'Methods and madness of migration to micros'.Ex: The early psychiatric profession believed in the effectiveness of reading as a treatment for insanity.Ex: The article is entitled 'Certifiable lunacy or common sense? Combining your adult and juvenile collections'.Ex: In subsequent years, Bethlem became ' Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.Ex: As for you, try to isolate yourself from all this craziness that have been going around you.* amar con locura = love + Nombre + to bits.* locuras = zaniness.* parecer una locura = sound + crazy.* * *1 ( Med) madness, insanityataque de locura fit of madness2 (insensatez) crazy thing ( colloq)hizo muchas locuras en su juventud she did a lot of crazy things in her youth ( colloq)lo que dices es una locura what you're saying is sheer o complete madnesscometió la locura de casarse a los quince años she committed the folly of getting married at fifteengastó una locura en ese coche he spent a ridiculous amount on that car3(inclinación exagerada): siente locura por la pequeña she's absolutely mad about o besotted with the little one ( colloq)la quiero/me gusta con locura I'm crazy o mad o wild about her ( colloq)* * *
locura sustantivo femenino
◊ lo que hizo/dijo fue una locura what he did/said was sheer madnessb) ( inclinación exagerada):
la quiero con locura I'm crazy about her (colloq)
locura sustantivo femenino madness, insanity: ¡no lo hagas!, ¡es una locura!, don't do it, it's insane!
' locura' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
enajenación
- esperar
- filo
- borde
English:
craze
- feign
- folly
- insanity
- lunacy
- madly
- madness
- streak
- verge on
- amok
- look
* * *locura nf1. [demencia] madness;la mató en un arrebato de locura he killed her in a fit of madnessdecir locuras to talk nonsense;temía que hiciera una locura I was afraid he might do something desperate;sería una locura hacerlo it would be folly o madness to do itcon locura madly;se quieren con locura they're madly in love (with one another)4.una locura [mucho] a fortune, a ridiculous amount;gastar una locura to spend a fortune* * *f madness;es una locura it’s madness;de locura fam crazy* * *locura nf1) : insanity, madness2) : crazy thing, folly* * *locura n madness -
4 Consciousness
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.... Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless. (T. Nagel, 1979, pp. 165-166)This approach to understanding sensory qualia is both theoretically and empirically motivated... [;] it suggests an effective means of expressing the allegedly inexpressible. The "ineffable" pink of one's current visual sensation may be richly and precisely expressed as a 95Hz/80Hz/80Hz "chord" in the relevant triune cortical system. The "unconveyable" taste sensation produced by the fabled Australian health tonic Vegamite might be poignantly conveyed as a 85/80/90/15 "chord" in one's four channeled gustatory system.... And the "indescribably" olfactory sensation produced by a newly opened rose might be quite accurately described as a 95/35/10/80/60/55 "chord" in some six-dimensional space within one's olfactory bulb. (P. M. Churchland, 1989, p. 106)One of philosophy's favorite facets of mentality has received scant attention from cognitive psychologists, and that is consciousness itself: fullblown, introspective, inner-world phenomenological consciousness. In fact if one looks in the obvious places... one finds not so much a lack of interest as a deliberate and adroit avoidance of the issue. I think I know why. Consciousness appears to be the last bastion of occult properties, epiphenomena, and immeasurable subjective states-in short, the one area of mind best left to the philosophers, who are welcome to it. Let them make fools of themselves trying to corral the quicksilver of "phenomenology" into a respectable theory. (Dennett, 1978b, p. 149)When I am thinking about anything, my consciousness consists of a number of ideas.... But every idea can be resolved into elements... and these elements are sensations. (Titchener, 1910, p. 33)A Darwin machine now provides a framework for thinking about thought, indeed one that may be a reasonable first approximation to the actual brain machinery underlying thought. An intracerebral Darwin Machine need not try out one sequence at a time against memory; it may be able to try out dozens, if not hundreds, simultaneously, shape up new generations in milliseconds, and thus initiate insightful actions without overt trial and error. This massively parallel selection among stochastic sequences is more analogous to the ways of darwinian biology than to the "von Neumann" serial computer. Which is why I call it a Darwin Machine instead; it shapes up thoughts in milliseconds rather than millennia, and uses innocuous remembered environments rather than noxious real-life ones. It may well create the uniquely human aspect of our consciousness. (Calvin, 1990, pp. 261-262)To suppose the mind to exist in two different states, in the same moment, is a manifest absurdity. To the whole series of states of the mind, then, whatever the individual, momentary successive states may be, I give the name of our consciousness.... There are not sensations, thoughts, passions, and also consciousness, any more than there is quadruped or animal, as a separate being to be added to the wolves, tygers, elephants, and other living creatures.... The fallacy of conceiving consciousness to be something different from the feeling, which is said to be its object, has arisen, in a great measure, from the use of the personal pronoun I. (T. Brown, 1970, p. 336)The human capacity for speech is certainly unique. But the gulf between it and the behavior of animals no longer seems unbridgeable.... What does this leave us with, then, which is characteristically human?.... t resides in the human capacity for consciousness and self-consciousness. (Rose, 1976, p. 177)[Human consciousness] depends wholly on our seeing the outside world in such categories. And the problems of consciousness arise from putting reconstitution beside internalization, from our also being able to see ourselves as if we were objects in the outside world. That is in the very nature of language; it is impossible to have a symbolic system without it.... The Cartesian dualism between mind and body arises directly from this, and so do all the famous paradoxes, both in mathematics and in linguistics.... (Bronowski, 1978, pp. 38-39)It seems to me that there are at least four different viewpoints-or extremes of viewpoint-that one may reasonably hold on the matter [of computation and conscious thinking]:A. All thinking is computation; in particular, feelings of conscious awareness are evoked merely by the carrying out of appropriate computations.B. Awareness is a feature of the brain's physical action; and whereas any physical action can be simulated computationally, computational simulation cannot by itself evoke awareness.C. Appropriate physical action of the brain evokes awareness, but this physical action cannot even be properly simulated computationally.D. Awareness cannot be explained by physical, computational, or any other scientific terms. (Penrose, 1994, p. 12)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Consciousness
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