Martial arts is a social science.

As a teacher, you sometimes strike your student, and hurt him, or at least provoke the fear of injury within him. You then teach that student how to block or evade your strikes. You again strike at your student, and if he defends himself, you reward or positively reinforce that behaviour; and if not, of course, you use negative reinforcements to encourage, if you will, a better performance.

This is the process we call behavioral modification, classical conditioning, or behavioursim, a case of cause and effect, a principle that governs all of reality; one which provided the nuance in results that has been produced by this field of study, bringing into question the mental faculties, mechanisms or processes of the combatant; with their being no doubt that the morality of combat, potentially the consideration of mercy lets say, can also be conditioned of a student.

Martial scientist understand that the schema one develops from their failures, their biases held while in the observance and confirmations of facts, and the subsequently developed propensity to certain behaviours and beliefs, all develop models of behaviour that make us more predictable, controllable, trainable.

These models can be considered constructs, institutions, systems, arts in motion, a form of self expression unique to the individual's physical and mental make up; which for the most part, are the result of the students reactions to stimulus provided while within said environment or the dojo.

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