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is just as lawful as everything else.

(Jacque) The sunflower

does not turn to the sun.

The sun makes it turn

by pulling in membranes.

A sailboat cannot sail.

The wind moves it.

Plants can't grow.

They are shoved

by sunshine, soil, temperature,

all kinds of things.

All things are shoved by something else.

All people are acted upon by other things.

Remember, your mother said "cup, table, light

papa, mama" over and over again

until you did the same thing.

Even race hatred is learned.

(Announcer) ... as the ideals

of intolerance and racial superiority

are taught to succeeding generations.

You could be brought up to hate Afro-Americans.

You could be brought up to hate

Jews, Swedes, all kinds of people.

- I hate Philippinos,

I hate Mexicans,

I hate them all!

We could raise a Jewish boy

in a Nazi culture.

He becomes a good Nazi.

A PRIME EFFECTOR ?

(Narrator) Mechanical processes are

based upon many interacting systems.

- What you got there, son?

- A plane.

What makes it fly? Is it the propeller?

- The propeller is not going to turn

unless you have the motor, right?

- So, it's the motor?

- But the motor needs fuel.

- So I'm guessing it's the fuel that makes it fly.

- Almost, but if you don't have the spark plugs,

and the oxygen, the fuel's not going to burn.

- So it's spark plugs and oxygen?

- You would think so,

but actually, even with all that working,

if you don't have the wings

and control surfaces to give it lift

it will never get off the ground.

- So it's the wings

and control surfaces that make it fly?

- Actually, it's all the above, son.

It's a complicated machine.

It needs all these things working together

to make the plane fly.

That's a lot like other technologies

and even human behavior.

- So it's all those things that make it fly.

- Exactly, kiddo!

(Narrator) Just like mechanical systems,

our behavior

has no single cause.

- God gives people good blood and bad blood,

and there's an end to it.

(Narrator) Our behavior is generated

by the many interacting variables

that we encounter.

(Henry) The environment can

never be the same for any two individuals.

That really counters claims

that people make when they say

"I have three children. They were all raised

in the same environment, but they all turned out so different."

Well, by that definition, the same environment

refers to the house they lived in

or the parents they had.

(Jacque) There's no such thing as

'the same environment'.

If you have two kids, one is 4 years old

and you play with him,

and the 7 year old is standing there

with that lower lip sticking out.

You say "What's the matter?"

and the kid goes like that.

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