Sentences with phrase «mechanistic way»

«This is something that could be explained in quite a mechanistic way,» said Giorgio Vallortigara, a neuroscientist and an author of both studies.

The easiest way to do the new style performance appraisal will be to link any pay progression to the outcome of the performance appraisal process in a purely mechanistic way.

«The fact is, genes don't behave in a neat, mechanistic way.

The government wants a mechanistic way of describing how something hits the central nervous system and then affects mood and thought, but there's no way of documenting that without resorting to talk of «brain» and «mind», and even if there was, plenty of substances we don't want to target - like taurine, nutmeg or incense - would be covered by it too.

But fashion collections fail, and fashion retailers fail, and the looks that work reflect what people actually want, not because they knew they wanted that or because you could ask them in any mechanistic way or because you're tracking metrics, but because they're a proposal that turns out to capture how people feel.

The purpose of Yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms.

Not exact matches

Quantum theory overthrew the deterministic and mechanistic view of the 18th century and made people think that matter moves at random in unpredictable ways.

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

It is, as George Herbert Mead has said, a way of «taking time seriously «17 to the point that no definable space in the mechanistic sense can be designated, or fixed, except as a supposition for purposes which require one to arrest the process, which is to assume that time does not matter or that it does not exist.

For me the mechanistic / non-mechanistic argument is not in any way about supreme beings or my personal experience of wonderment.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

In fact, Russell thinks that the death of Whitehead's younger son, Eric, in air combat in 1918, significantly shifted his views: «The pain of this loss had a great deal to do with turning his thoughts, to philosophy and with causing him to seek ways of escaping from belief in a merely mechanistic universe.»

It is also more congenial to modern medicine precisely because of the way it affirms the unity of mind and body — unlike a reductionist theory of mechanistic materialism or a pure spiritualism that denies the body's value.

What is really surprising in retrospect is the way in which the Christian church lined itself almost exclusively with the mechanistic view of the universe.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

Neuroscientists usually explain color illusions in mechanistic terms: They arise because of the way cells in the retina and the brain respond to certain wavelengths of light.

NMP shares certain mechanistic similarities with other promising drug candidates for myeloma that were discovered in more traditional ways.

In his book Evolution for Everyone, he distinguishes it from theological thinking (God did it) and mechanistic thinking (its parts make it work this way).

«This study shows, that there is a mechanistic explanation for why fish may move, faced with a choice, and now we have a way of testing it,» Johansen said.

At the mechanistic level we try to understand the machinery as enzymes and little molecular machines, trying to see how we can manipulate them the best and push them a little bit one way or another.

Known as much for its complexity as its vital role in regulating cellular and organismal growth, the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway has seemingly been acting in mysterious ways.

A mechanistic explanation of the PDO, along the lines of the ENSO mechanism, has not been put forward, by the way.

In this way, mechanistic insights guide how to make systems that have the functional properties we need,» said Sharp.

In this way, in - depth immunological monitoring, genetic and proteomic analyses, and biomarker discovery from patient samples guides further laboratory investigation, where mechanistic studies can be designed and animal modeling performed.

The discovery of CDHR3 as the probable receptor for RV - C opens the way for biological and mechanistic studies.

While this way of thinking isn't particularly mechanistic, and not easily decoded, we are holistic beings, and our physical health affects our emotional state, and vice versa.

We just talked about the mechanistic view of how intestinal calcium absorption compensates for any potential loss in the urine, but there are a lot of other ways to look at it, too.

And the instant you hunker down in the welcoming driver's seat it's crystal clear that Porsche's meticulousness with mechanistic performance has leeched into not just intuitive technology, but the way it's presented.

The clearly defined, almost mechanistic forms of his youth gave way to more lyrical images in which the human figure was often hinted at through sensuous washes of colour.

Its full narrative includes: the coupling multi-century climate — cosmogenic nuclides increasingly detected, the way this coupling is not just a matter of climate - dependent nuclides transport and deposition, the way ocean lag disqualifies flagship narratives about recent shorter - term modelling purportedly ruling this out, and, the way a 20th century grand maximum would call for a mechanistic incorporation of all this in 20th century understanding / modelling — only, the mechanism (UV or GCR - clouds, probably the former) has not been well enough understood yet.

al 2016), results that may point the way toward mechanistic emergent constraints on high - cloud feedback.