On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:03:04 +0200, in a place far, far away, Markus
Baur made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg wrote:
No. But the subject wasn't about historical behavior. It was about
present behavior.

and present behaviour is a direct result of past/historical behaviour
as todays behaviour is learned from past behaviour

Nonsense. Or, at least, not the behavior that you think.