For the party that does not control the presidency – the out-party – control of the national chairpersonship is an important element in the struggle for intraparty ascendancy.

The Gestaltists did not say that patterns of electrochemical brain activity are the same as patterns of perceptual activity. Rather, they said that perceptual fields are always caused by underlying patterns of brain activity.

However, for both the CCAO and ICAO patients, there was no difference in the rate of recanalization between patients with hypoecho and isoecho lesions.

The play ends on a predominantly pessimistic note: Alex fails to rescue Alda from the victorious biocyberneticists, for she, realizing the apparent inefficacy of Alex's beliefs, agrees to go to work for them.