"We're trying to establish the basic principle that where governments are exposed to risk in putting out financial fires like this, that taxpayers don't bear the costs of paying for those actions," he said, adding, "That is a simple, fair, basic imperative".
"Knowledge of past experience can help an organism deal with the future," says Edelman. "That's the basic imperative... Emotions are basically computational shortcuts that funnel the outcome of the monitoring that organisms do over themselves". This process is the brain's biological imperative: It not only keeps us alive, but according to Edelman, it's also what makes us happy.
We can offer a place of safety, a place of security for deeply traumatized and deeply needy people and I think that's just a basic moral imperative for us to step up to".
I suspect that this basic imperative of bodily survival in an uncertain world is the basis of the flexibility and power of human intelligence". — Ben Medlock, co-founder of predictive language software firm SwiftKey, explains why he thinks that truly intelligent machines will need a body.
"It requires substantial change and reform, but I think that you see much more support for that basic imperative than I would have expected a year ago," he said.
The most basic imperative is not to publish articles that would put actual soldiers' lives at risk.
This imperative to protect the children at the most basic, imperative level -- life -- is what's ultimately at stake in the present firestorm over gun control.
The novel, which began in extremis (Bunyan in prison; Defoe dodging creditors), but learned to entertain, and make money (Sterne cashing in as a bestseller; Dickens selling like a box set), still follows two basic imperatives: obsession or entertainment.
It can seem as if it might go away one day, when its basic imperatives are forgotten, and it's no longer a music about fear, innocence, power, naïve hope and ineptness.
Whether their values stemmed directly from the vision and character of their founders or were developed later through formal programs, these companies all followed four basic imperatives in creating and implementing their values.
For radiation safety it is imperative to have a basic understanding of the fragment distribution within the beam line.
