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Research in this field provides insights into a number of areas, including:
Understanding and anticipating the range of specific conscious and
unconscious responses to specific sensory inputs, as images, colors, textures, sounds, etc.
Utilizing the communicative nature of movement and primal physiological
gestures to affect and study specific mind-body states.
Examining the capacity for the mind and senses to directly affect
physiological response and biological change.
Understanding and anticipating the range of specific conscious and
unconscious responses to specific sensory inputs, as images, colors, textures, sounds, etc.
Utilizing the communicative nature of movement and primal physiological
gestures to affect and study specific mind-body states.
Examining the capacity for the mind and senses to directly affect
physiological response and biological change.
1. arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
2. Biology. oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
3. Surgery. the replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
4. Architecture. the adaptation to the purposes of a building of its various parts.
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Contemporary accounts describe Smith as an eccentric but benevolent
intellectual, comically absent minded, with peculiar habits of speech and
gait and a smile of "inexpressible benignity". He was known to talk to
himself, and had occasional spells of imaginary illness.
Smith is often described as a prototypical absent-minded professor. He is
reported to have had books and papers stacked up in his study, with a
habit he developed during childhood of speaking to himself and smiling in
rapt conversation with invisible companions.
Various anecdotes have discussed his absentminded nature. In one story,
Smith reportedly took Charles Townshend on a tour of a tanning factory
and while discussing free trade, Smith walked into a huge tanning pit from
which he had to be removed. Another episode records that he put
bread and butter into a teapot, drank the concoction, and declared it to be
the worst cup of tea he ever had. In another example, Smith went out
walking and daydreaming in his nightgown and ended up 15 miles (24
km) outside town before nearby church bells brought him back to reality.
... Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy.
intellectual, comically absent minded, with peculiar habits of speech and
gait and a smile of "inexpressible benignity". He was known to talk to
himself, and had occasional spells of imaginary illness.
Smith is often described as a prototypical absent-minded professor. He is
reported to have had books and papers stacked up in his study, with a
habit he developed during childhood of speaking to himself and smiling in
rapt conversation with invisible companions.
Various anecdotes have discussed his absentminded nature. In one story,
Smith reportedly took Charles Townshend on a tour of a tanning factory
and while discussing free trade, Smith walked into a huge tanning pit from
which he had to be removed. Another episode records that he put
bread and butter into a teapot, drank the concoction, and declared it to be
the worst cup of tea he ever had. In another example, Smith went out
walking and daydreaming in his nightgown and ended up 15 miles (24
km) outside town before nearby church bells brought him back to reality.
... Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy.
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"Some years ago, I was working on a fantasy series called Death Gate
with Margaret Weis. We needed two competing systems of magic that
made sense. I remembered a saying of my old friend, Jeff Grubb. He
defined quantum physics as "figures, figures, figures, figures, figures ...
and then God does something ... figures, figures, figures, figures,
figures." So, in order to create a believable pair of magic systems, I
researched what amounted to Newtonian versus Quantum mechanics and,
later, competing visions of quantum theory. I read popular science books
regarding Relativity, quantum mechanics, Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle, parallel universes and chaos theory. The results were a
wonderful and sensible pair of magic systems that made sense because
they were modeled on quantum and chaos theories."
— Tracy Hickman, Hickman Newsletter #115
semantic aspect of language (the meaning of what is being said)
and the pragmatics of language (using language appropriately in social situations).
self-study incusive of human studyThis definition has been expanded and refined by therapists who use it to
refer to communication disorders that involve difficulty in understanding
the meaning of words, grammar, syntax, prosody, eye gaze, body
language, gestures, or social context.
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In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as
correspondence bias or overattribution effect) reflects our erroneous
cognitive tendency to predominantly over-value dispositional, or
personality-based, explanations (i.e., attributions or interpretations) for
the observed behaviors of others, thus under-valuing or unacknowledging
the potentiality of situational attributions or situational explanations for the
behavioral motives of others. In other words, people predominantly
presume that the actions of others are indicative of the "kind" of person
they are, rather than the kind of situations that compels their behaviour.
However, the overattribution effect generally does not account for our
own ability to self-justify our behaviours; we tend to prefer interpreting
our own actions in terms of the situational variables accessible to our
awareness. This discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias and stands
in direct opposition of the Fundamental Attribution Error.
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