Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to the neural correlates of belief. Dopamine, in fact, is critical in association learning and the reward system of th...
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive ...
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind ...
Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all people need to get through the day. Imagine a unit of sol...
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being open to other forms. When the parent imposes an arbitrary system of reinforcement (pun...
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans re...
We must reinforce argument with results.
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
