Sentences with phrase «supporting nonsocial»

Moreover, the entire article is gainsaid by a massive meta - analysis study by Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and his colleagues published in the September issue of the peer - reviewed journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, showing that «there is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial causes of sexual orientation than social causes.»

That means that what is going on in some parts of the supporting nonsocial nexus is not known to the regnant occasion and this is what I mean by saying that the activities of those unprehended parts of the nonsocial nexus answer to the notion of the unconscious, or the depth dimension of the «psyche.»

I am helped in avoiding this attribution by his subsequent indication that the personally ordered regnant society he is tracing «answers to the notion of the conscious ego while the supporting nonsocial nexus answers to the dimly conscious regions of the «depth» dimension of the psyche» (1:406).

Therein he proposed that the dominant occasion constituting the soul at any given moment must prehend and coordinate within its own concrescence the data available to all the members of its supporting nonsocial nexus.

The members of the living nonsocial nexus which is at the base of personality must inherit some of their data from bodily structures.6 We must either discover a new body to support this nonsocial nexus, or we must dispense with it as the basis of person.

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Would not this «body» have a nonsocial nexus of its own, that is intense living occasions which might support «a thread of personal order along some historical route of its members» (PR 163)?

For Whitehead, the answers to both questions, which I shall consider in turn, are framed in terms of the Psychological Physiology, the main «elements» of which consist of a nonsocial nexus of occasions in the brain (which functions as the body's principal source of creative novelty), the regnant society it supports, and their interactions with other bodily societies and nexuses (WPP 404 - 06).

Since the presiding occasion of the regnant society «wanders from part to part of the brain, dissociated from the physical material atoms» (PR 167), the other enduring objects which constitute it as an «inter-section» must be historic routes of occasions within the «nonsocial» nexus which supports the regnant society.

The fact that these findings are based on different types of real - life relationships (e.g., personal and work relationships, and even nonsocial commitments) supports the ecological validity of the link between relationship returns and relationship maintenance.