Even before the typewriter was invented, Wershler-Henry claims, its "logic" enforced a disciplinary regime, modifying "our behavior, our social structures and our very sense of ourselves".
It has an amazing ability to reorganize itself by forming new connections between brain cells, allowing us to continually learn new things and modify our behavior.
We're used to someone having to raise and aim their camera or phone at us before they're able to record us, which gives us time to modify our behavior or turn away.
While sophisticated science may yield a more precise segmentation of disease states, and a few magic bullets, we'll likely still be left with many more diseases than drugs, and our health will likely continue to depend upon our ability to modify our behavior, whether that means passing on dessert or taking our medicines regularly.
This is us choosing to modify our behavior.
With enhanced knowledge of what makes us tick comes enhanced capacity to modify our behavior by whittling away at our resolve.
"Through Complessità I wanted to represent how big the impact of 'the whole' on each one of us is in modifying our behavior," Beccalli recalls to The Creators Project.
These words were often delivered in the moment, and used as a direct way for the older generation to guide us, swiftly, into modifying our behavior while learning a "societal" virtue on how we are expected to behave.
With time, new social and cultural factors will appear which will modify our behavior in these situations.
And we can, in principle, choose to modify our behavior to preserve the awe-inspiring diversity of plant and animal life we have inherited.
