Behavior Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It”

— Stephen R. Covey

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

— Stephen Covey

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

— Clay Buchholz

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of…

— Gregory Bateson

Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the…

— Gerald Edelman

Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952).…

— Gerald Edelman

I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain.

— Apollo Robbins

“Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.”

— Richard Powers

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike…

— Gerald Edelman

“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections…

— David Eagleman

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

— Chris Kilham