You have to admire the optimism at some pharmaceutical companies, where people seem to believe that all human problems, or at least some really big ones, can be solved with the right prescription.
So far, the best stem cells seem to come from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process of removing stem cells.
No questionnaires are involved, and dolphins seem to worry about human observers about as much as humans would worry about an observant pet.
But these human to human connections seem to be losing some of their currency in an era where so much of our social networking has moved online.
They want relationships, especially amid our technologically immersed lives, where human interactions seem to be decreasing and digital interactions are increasing.
So, it would seem to follow that no single human being could also reign supreme, at least not for very long, whether as a dictator, a top athlete, or a businessman.
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Their world views are so radically opposed that at times the two men seem unable to acknowledge each other as human.
No matter if you are in China or in the United States, we all live in a global interconnected economy and we all seem to get caught up in the human and emotional side of investing.
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The best they seem to be able to do is provide human translators with a crude first draft.
Western Europe has turned Abraham Maslow on his head: rather than leading us up his Hierarchy of Human Needs, they seem to value little more than the animal security of the bottom rung.
Where the studies you rely on and the ones I trust seem to differ is in a basic assuption regarding human economic behavior.
Research shows that even partial ostracism is quickly detected, and that lacking information that others in your group seem to have undermines not one but four fundamental human needs: the need for belonging and connection to others, self-esteem, the need for a sense of control and effectiveness, and the need for meaningful work.
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But they seem decidedly less cool next to gadgets that can read human movements and understand our spoken language.
It is not a human resources initiative, as many seem to assume.
Human resource experts and career advisers seem to agree that while minorities especially tend to form bonds with people in an organization who share commonalities, not knowing how to branch out can be a major hindrance.
So, in conclusion, we live in a world without logic, the news stories of which seem custom-designed to try the patience of any sane human being.
Moreover, the human costs of war, terrorism and slavery seem to defy any financial calculation.
"These sorts of differences seem to be the sorts of things that if they occurred in human beings we would call them traditions, " he said.
Although American officials these days do not seem to press the Saudis very hard to become democratic or to uphold human rights, America's media and its rights lobbies are relentlessly critical.
Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.
The researchers also discussed the possibility that thinking machines might be a threat to human jobs, but honestly, having my job threatened was starting to seem like a relatively minor problem by then.
Mr Blair's vision of an enlarged union and a reformed parliament may come to seem relatively distant, compared with the pressing questions raised by the adoption of the human-rights charter later this year.
Most clients don't seem to mind the fees, either, viewing the inspection of a company's human capital as something just as vital as maintenance of plant and equipment.
And using the human eye to control a display that you're already staring at anyway does seem to have some merits.
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Partly in the same way that we justify other human endeavors, such as art or philosophy, that don't seem to serve any immediate purpose.
They will work with one or more of the other five forces to create a new kind of relationship between people and their devices, one that may seem uncannily human at times.
As they move, they seem to float slightly, as if, like ballet dancers, their momentum carried them past ordinary human ability.
What is for certain is that his injury will serve as a reminder to professional athletes everywhere that as invincible as they sometimes may seem, they are in the end only fragile human beings.
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