He's arguing against reductionism – the idea that mind and experience can be understood with a straight-up, scientific analysis of various parts.
The load balancing arguments in Chapters 2, 3,4,5,6 and 10 only use combinatorial arguments and can be understood with a high-school knowledge of mathematics.
Despite this, the mechanisms of change for such interventions are only beginning to be understood, with a number of recent studies assessing changes in brain activity.
There are those who can imagine their own extinction - a region once called the Czech lands where 100 years ago people spoke and wrote a language which can now only be understood with a dictionary.
This is not the kind of autism familiar from Rain Man and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, where the central characters' obsessions, sensory idiosyncracies and social difficulties can be understood with a little sympathy and imagination.
As we have noted, 'exist' here should not mean "actually exist" but should be understood with a larger domain of discourse in mind.
This behaviour cannot be understood with a criticality model, as in this case all aftershocks would occur immediately after the main shock and not days, months, or years later.
Yet, it upholds something like a philosophy that springs forth through a reflective restatement of the practice, though this "upholding" must be understood with a proviso that it maintains, as mentioned in the foregoing, a "positionless position".
The approach we intend can be understood with a simple analogy: the powerful reductionist approaches of traditional biochemistry and molecular biology are analogous to a watchmaker deconstructing a watch, listing the component parts but perhaps stopping at drawing a picture of how it goes back together.
With 6 bands, the speech can be understood with a small amount of training.
The bystander effect can be understood with an example: Imagine Jane, a member of an engineering team at a company.
