It's all mechanistic. We are mechanism.

At the same time, that definition cannot be static or mechanistic.

It's coming from the economists imposing their mechanistic thinking on the science.

But for 21st century tasks, that mechanistic, reward and punishment approach doesn't work, often doesn't work, and often does harm.

What we say and I include the most austerely mechanistic among us, which is probably me what we say is, Vile monster, prison is too good for you.

If they are not, States can again be rewarded for a failure to report by a routine or mechanistic response which fails to establish genuine accountability in any way.

This would seem to be a case in which the Secretariat should be requested to prepare an analytical paper exploring different options in a creative rather than mechanistic fashion.

Most scientists today subscribe to a mechanistic view of the mind we're the way we are because our brains are wired up as they are our hormones are the way they are.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines. In Tunisia, too, there has been a similar regression to mechanistic types of solidarity organized around tribal, regional, and religious identities.

It's a kind of mechanistic world that we'd all love to live in where, effectively, it sits very nicely on spreadsheets, everything is numerically expressible, and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.

A dramatic manifestation of the mechanistic pattern of solidarity is now emerging in Syria, as well. While Syrians have been facing death, violence, and displacement for more than two years, the international community has been busy debating the nature of the Syrian rebels.

Civil society and professional groups have been unable to respond in a way that maintains organic social cohesion, owing to a lack of resources, weak capacity, or both. Mechanistic solidarity has emerged as a more effective means to mobilize people and resources.

NEW YORK Some economists overlook the modern idea that a country s prosperity depends on innovation and entrepreneurship. They take the mechanistic view that prosperity is a matter of employment, and that employment is determined by demand government spending, household consumption, and investment demand.

As a result, mechanistic solidarity grows stronger at the expense of organic solidarity. The trend is often accelerated by the loss of jobs, which often leads people to abandon their professional and functional identities in favor of identities based on ethnicity, kinship, or religion.

Gender mainstreaming has not been visible or explicit There is no corporate strategic plan for putting the gender mainstreaming policy into effect Steps have been simplistic and mechanistic and UNDP has not acted on previous assessments identifying similar shortcomings, and has sent mixed signals about its commitment and expectations.

Second, we kept a steady hand, guided by our medium term orientation, while eschewing oversimplified diagnostics and mechanistic reactions to a few indicators. Third, we aimed at guiding markets and inspiring confidence in monetary policy, thereby helping to stabilize the economy by keeping inflation expectations anchored at levels compatible with our definition of price stability.

On the other hand, Krugman has inexplicably taken up the mantle of crude aggregate demand management, making it seem that favoring large budget deficits in recent years is also part of progressive economics. (Krugman s position is sometimes called Keynesianism, but John Maynard Keynes knew much better than Krugman that we should not depend on mechanistic demand multipliers to set the unemployment rate.)