But where so much of Wallace, most notably in his extended profile of John McCain and in his tennis appreciations, turns on a distinction between instinctive action and self-conscious paralysis, Sullivan doesn't find this conflict worth worrying about.
"It was an instinctive reaction action born out of frustration more than anything else," he said.
"Kirsty's last instinctive action was to protect her children, to push them out of the path of that boat," she said.
For example, many supposedly instinctive action sequences turned out to be terminated by the situation, whether it was finding a hiding place, sitting on eggs, or adjusting body temperature, rather than by the expenditure of energy in the performance of a stereotyped fixed action pattern.
Nigrostriatal mechanisms for sequencing instinctive action may have been co-opted in subsequent mammalian and human evolution into use in sequencing learned and cognitive psychological elements [ 67- 69].
Smiling, after all, like many instinctive actions, is a learned behaviour, one involving an alleged 57 different muscles (which sounds an awful lot, more, probably, than you need to play Rocket Man on the piano).
For example, transforming industrial space into retail space and merging ten locations into two are not instinctive actions to either managers or real estate specialists.
He said studies had showed that at night the left side of the brain is more involved in instinctive actions and reactions but that this is impeded after heavy sleep, when blood circulation drops.
People call me an instinctive actor.
According to reports, Hepburn was not an instinctive actor.
