What is "operants"

Usage examples of "operants".

In this we were like many other natural operants who came after us, our successes and tragedies blending into the ongoing evolutionary trend of the planetary Mind studied so dis­passionately by the scientists of the Galactic Milieu.

It is indeed from that group, especially the northeastern Franco-Americans, that we expect the largest numbers of natural operants to be born during this critical pre-Intervention phase of proctorship.

They seem to think that when his developing powers reached an adequate level, numbers of isolated operants automatically responded.

Denis had made many attempts to bring Victor into his own circle of young operants, but without success.

Numbers of hitherto clandestine operants "came out of the closet" as a result of Denis's book and be­came involved in serious research projects.

There were surprisingly few commentators, in those early days, who envisioned any problem in having an elite population of operants living and work­ing among "normal" humanity.

Thus far she had sedulously avoided socializing with other operants, except for an occasional lunch with Vigdis.

We married before my faculties became operant under the tutelage of Professor MacGregor but then afterward the difference the terrible difference I did not want to believe what the wisest operants warned me about I knew my love would be strong enough but in the end Egil divorced me the price paid for becoming operant is permanent alienation from normal human attachments.

Perhaps some time in the future we operants may learn to disguise our thoughts so thoroughly that we can deceive one another readily in moral matters — but that time hasn't come yet.

He would be asked to help recruit American operants for MacGregor's noble scheme.

Now Russ operants tend antiestablishment because "elitist phenom operancy" remains suspect under Marxist dogmatism.

You understand that the operants will require congenial working conditions in order to do their work properly.

But there are so many other jobs to do that operants would find more satisfying.

You've interviewed a number of other operants for your television series, so you know that such protective coloration activity is the usual thing for youngsters who grow up with self-taught metafunctions.

A World Mind is quite plausible to operants, and of course it would include nonoperant minds as well.