Sentences with phrase «reductionist behavior»

My pastoral experience has taught me that such reductionist behavior cheats God, one another and ourselves.

Moreover, this reductionist behavior keeps us from showing the world what can happen when Christians see one another as brothers and sisters instead of only according to racial, ethnic, or social stereotypes.

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But to talk about the life of men apart from the societies that shape and constitute them is similarly an abstraction which borders on the reductionist fallacy, which sees social wholes as merely summaries of individual behavior.

However, the two views are not incompatible: in order for the reductionist conception to make sense at all, the «laws governing parts» must include implicit reference to the behavior of these parts with respect to any complex into which the parts may enter.

«The widespread media attention to these reports,» writes lead author Hal Wortzel «appears to have primed the public to accept highly reductionist formulations regarding the neuropathological bases of neuropsychiatric illness and complete human behaviors among persons with remote histories of [brain trauma].»

Harry Grundfest also felt very strongly that the way to study the brain is one cell at a time, and he got me interested in to [a] reductionist approach to behavior, which is really the approach that I've taken since then.

That is, knowledge about the more than two - millennia - old Eastern tradition of investigating the mind from the inside, from an interior, subjective point of view, and the much more recent insights provided by empirical Western ways to probe the brain and its behavior using a third - person, reductionist framework.

Do you look at behavior and try to understand that, or do you really follow science's historically honored reductionist approach and pick it apart from the bottom and then rebuild it from there?

There are some folks who are so rigid, however, such little tin soldiers, that they can only see behavior from a reductionist viewpoint and entirely miss the intuitive Gestalt of animal learning which reveal the higher order systems in action.