In eastern and central Newham is a densely developed area of terraced houses built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as an intentional consequence of the policy of the Eastern Railway to provide low fares for workers.
In the case of the H5N1 studies, scientists and security experts have the same aim: to reduce the risk of a global, highly lethal pandemic, whether naturally occurring or the intentional consequence of bioterrorism or biowarfare.
Decisions related to each of those aspects can have a variety of both intentional and non-intentional consequences – what we call secondary effects – that are then likely to become conditions for subsequent action.
That's not an entirely original premise, but what makes the pilot especially moving is that we see these characters making huge decisions and then immediately see the consequences – intentional or otherwise.
We then explore the chain of intentional and unintentional consequences, or secondary effects, that flow from those primary effects.
It is a web of complex relationships where the intentional or unintentional consequences of an action then become the conditions for subsequent actions.
In an fMRI study that compared thinking about physical causality (physical event and its consequences) versus intentional causality (a subject's intentions and its consequences), the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex was found to subserve reasoning about intentional causality [33], a function that usually develops before false belief understanding.
In this fMRI study, we investigated the convergence of underlying neural networks in thinking about a scenario involving one's own intentional action and its consequences and setting up and holding in mind an intention to act.
Is it even fair to call it a revolution, and imply that it was something fully intentional, unshaped by unintended consequences and economic forces?
Although short-term weight loss has been shown to ameliorate obesity-related metabolic abnormalities and CVD risk factors, the long-term consequences of intentional weight loss in overweight or obese individuals with type 2 diabetes have not been adequately examined.
