Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yeah, moods are a function of the weather," Patty Thompson '79 said, as she sat in Lowell House courtyard. Thompson said the first time the weather got nice this spring, "the man who lives across the hall" spoke to her for the first time all year...
Much screen time is devoted to demonstrating that the conspiracy against this distant political figure is widespread and heavily financed. People are forever getting into and out of a variety of vehicles, but all these goings-on make for neither arresting imagery nor suspense. And they have no function whatever in explicating the psychology of the murderer, a small-time punk whom the unnamed organization has gone to enormous trouble to spring from jail...
Although she rapidly asserted herself in the policy-making decisions here, the new agreement provides clear agreement on her administrative function...
...percentage of their waking hours. Being conscious is not merely the opposite of being unconscious--as Jaynes says many people wrongly believe. Instead, he asserts that people are conscious only when they think introspectively and become aware of themselves as part of an external environment. Not only can they function successfully without being conscious, Jaynes notes, but human beings have actually lacked consciousness for most of the time they have trod upon the earth...
...brain of homo sapiens today is essentially the same as that of the primitive beings who first mastered fire around 100,000 B.C., Jaynes claims mankind did not become conscious until the second millenium B.C. If humans were not conscious until then, what were they like? How did they function...