subfunctions

Such subfunctions call or make use of each other if certain conditions are met, so that the various subparts of a program are in constant interaction—constant conversation—with each other, just as they are in a jet engine.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

These call on other subfunctions or subroutines to support their workings.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Our understanding of consciousness, and even of sentience, is the heavily subjective result of a somewhat-efficient gestalt of hundred of interconnected subfunctions, each function somewhat adaptive.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Law and Robotics Panel at Stanford Law School 2009

A program that sets up a graphic window on a computer display calls on subfunctions to create the window, set its size, set its position, display its title, fetch its content, bring it to the front of other windows, and delete it when it is done with.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Take away any one of the six subfunctions, and the design function will not produce a designed phenomenon.

Creationism, defined 2006

The design function involves an irreducibly complex interaction of at least six seperate subfunctions: imagination, desire, will, understanding, intelligence, and implementation.

Creationism, defined 2006

It is clearly more difficult for nature to spontaneously produce the irreducibly complex combination of subfunctions that combine to form the design function, than it is for nature to spontaneously produce a flagellum.

Creationism, defined 2006

Take away any of the subfunctions, and the design function will not occur.

Creationism, defined 2006

By considering the components of design function, we can see that there is an irreducibly complex group of subfunctions required before the designer will successfully exercise the design function.

Creationism, defined 2006

On this view, individual emotions would owe their specific identity both to the subfunctions they are designed to serve and to their characteristic physiological implementation.

Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007