Sentence examples for mechanistic reflex from inspiring English sources
Even at the back-street anatomy school where Huxley took the botany prize in 1842 Sydenham College, off Gower Street in London there was no escaping sectarian politics and science; Sydenham's owner, Marshall Hall, was studying mechanistic reflex arcs while haranguing the Royal College of Physicians for excluding Dissenters from its fellowship.
Two millennia after Aristotle, Descartes' mechanistic philosophy introduced the idea of a reflex to explain the behavior of nonhuman animals.
Further mechanistic understanding of the neurophysiology and molecular biology that underlies neural reflex control of the immune system may enable development of conceptually novel modalities for treatment of inflammatory disease.
A molecular model on how a sea slug learns a conditioned reflex (pp. 295 301) shows how far we are from a mechanistic understanding of how we learn concepts.
Although his conception of animals treated them as reflex-driven machines, with no intellectual capacities, it is important to recognize that he took mechanistic explanation to be perfectly adequate for explaining sensation and perception — aspects of animal behavior that are nowadays often associated with consciousness.
Yellen disputed this mechanistic view.
Everything had become so mechanistic and functional.
Conditioned reflex, I guess.
