Re: Government monitoring Twitter
That's called a primitive reflex.Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
OK... let's choose a simple ones:
Babies suckling when their cheek is brushed.
Babies grasping when something is placed into their hand.
A baby turtle heading for the sea as soon as it's born is an instinct.
Babies start searching when their cheek is brushed btw, they start suckling when their mouth is touched.
Last edited by HoreTore; 08-28-2014 at 22:24.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Government monitoring Twitter
By the same token, there's no need to call adaptive motor-planning "decision-making", as the concept denoted is a hallmark of outdated mentalism, and it consists of some sort of ethereal discontinuity within the process that simply does not exist.
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Re: Government monitoring Twitter
But again, that is quite distinct from the concept of instinct.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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Now this has entered the world of semantics.
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No.Now this has entered the world of semantics.
I took your use of "instinctinvely" to signify something which cannot be changed, ie. "genetically programmed". The action you described is not of that category.
Primitive reflexes are distinct from instincts because they are lost after a certain period of time, btw. If adults also suckled whenever something grazed their mouths, we would have had instincts.
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Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Government monitoring Twitter
You say that as though semiology and ontogeny aren't engaged in the same inquiry.Now this has entered the world of semantics.
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So... I heard the government is monitoring Twitter?
Like, wazup wiv dat?
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Sorry, but US political correctness monitors will have to fine you for your poor communication choice. Speech characterizable as urban African-American dialect is not permissible to Austro-Swedes. You will simple have to continue to endure the unbearable being of whiteness.
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LOL!!
That was just my way of
Re: Government monitoring Twitter
Not like they would gain any information, right? Just make them go brain-dead that much faster. But no, the fear is that if the government goes totalitarian (and some are trying, now for a new uproar), they will take those who have posted what they call insurrection and put them away. Or what they call racism, or hate speech, or you name it. That is the fear, and it is not totally groundless.Still not sure why anyone would care if the government is monitoring twitter. Its a website based around the concept of attention-whoring. Come on, man.
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