A recent Health and Human Services Department memo cited research suggesting that in adolescents the brain is still evolving "in its ability to organize, regulate impulses, and weigh risks and rewards".
Let's suppose, for a minute, that the Trump transition has some organizing principle beyond the chaotic, conflicting impulses of a megalomaniac.
What links mug-shot blogging to its police origins is exactly this impulse to organize faces into categories.
Watson believes that humanity's impulse to organize its surroundings, no matter how benign-seeming or elevating, is inherently destructive.
There's something about the stories being told now on TV that grips me (and apparently everyone else) so forcibly that I have to fight off the impulse to organize my entire life around them.
Increasingly, he suggests, under colonialism Indians came to view the Western concept of reality -- based on rationality and exemplified in a linear impulse to organize, categorize, collect and record -- as morally problematic and intellectually delusional.
"All men need the gods," as Homer has it, and nothing since then — not Galileo, not Darwin, not the Enlightenment, nothing — has changed the intrinsic impulse to organize stories and create belief systems that give shape to life and offer a vision of what may lie beyond the grave.
To solve such problems, filtering is usually organized employing the finite impulse response (FIR) structures.
Nervous system function relies on the capacity of neurons to organize specialized domains for impulse reception or transmission.
Only starting in the '30s were organized labor and organized liberalism able to restrain the bad impulses of the business system.
