But gradually his charm, my new easy life, and my own disposition led me to accept it".
The robot's tough talk on gun control and its choirboy disposition lead the voters to ascribe sentient motives to the artificially intelligent humanoid.
Natural selection acting on genetic variation can establish dispositions to learn from non-kin in spite of the fact that under some circumstances these dispositions lead to the proliferation of maladaptive traits.
Given the value of such relationships, agents will, in the long run, produce more overall good if they dispose themselves to benefit loved ones, even if such dispositions lead them, on occasion, to perform an action with less than optimal consequences.
As an example, Mr. Cullen referred to evidence that suggests some career criminals may have a genetic disposition that leads to low self-control, and that I.Q.'s among inmates are on average 8 to 10 points lower than the general population.
This is natural given the Social Principle, as Crummell calls it: that "disposition which leads men to associate and join together for specific purposes; the principle which makes families and societies, and which binds men in unity and brotherhood, in races and churches and nations" (31).
Its advantages in falconry include not only its athleticism and eagerness to hunt, but an equitable disposition that leads to it being one of the easier falcons to train.
Despite applauding Soderbergh for "hopscotching" tidily "between the intimate and international", The Atlantic Christopher Orr was disappointed with the film's detached and "clinical" disposition, which led him to conclude that Contagion should have gone with a more inflexible rationale, or a lesson "beyond 'wash your hands often and hope you're lucky'".
In an effort to define the toxicology and disposition of lead compounds that presently exist in paint (i.e., organic driers), a controlled dose feeding study was initiated early this year with the use of 28 infant baboons as experimental animals.
