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“Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.”

Given Behavior Replaced Learned Behavior

Author:Margaret Mead

“To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it.”

Facts Reality Order Turns Given Consciousness Degrees Behavior Preservation Responding Contributing Prevailing

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

Way Firsts Doe Problem Used Speak Given Term Behavior Concerned Connections Function Relation Structure Series Tendencies Defined Regions Probability Systematic Circuits Neurons Manifold

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information”

Ifs Persons Given Interest Information Behavior Rational

Author:Robert Aumann

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

Way Has Beens Self Play Use Might Night Asks Games Given Process Powerful Behavior Negative Could Have Been Neurotic Old Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing child, of his physical and mental equipment at any given stage, and, therefore, his readiness at any given stage to adapt, to learn, to regulate his behavior according to parental expectations.”

Should Children Given Understanding Stage Fashion Behavior Expectations Method Developing Equipment Readiness Whim Parental Child Rearing

Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood