Re: Creativity

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lester Zick 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:03:42 +0000, David Longley
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > OmegaZero2003 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> > > "David Longley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eray
> > > >
> > > > There are good reasons to believe that this may be all there is to
> > > > "Cognitive Science". For some folk, their commitment to it might well
> > > > change quite dramatically once they see how obviously the functionalism
> > > > of the 60s and 70s mostly caches out as behaviourism,
> > >
> > > Except for all those pesky molecules, cells, fields and other brain_soup
> > > constituents that is!
> >
> > You clearly have a very hard time *not* writing very silly things (quite
> > apart from frequently misunderstanding what others write both here and
> > elsewhere).
> >
> > Behavior Analysis is one of the physical sciences. Amongst the other
> > things you need to look into, you need to have a close look into what
> > Evidential Behaviorism amounts to.
> And you clearly have a hard time not writing very silly things.
> Behavior Analysis is one of the experimental sciences. It isn't one of
> the physical sciences unless you've started picking up rats and
> throwing them across the room.
>
>
> Regards - Lester

No, once again - you don't know what you are talking about (but you, 
like the rest of us, now know why that is don't you Lester - you don't 
do any substantial reading so you have a rather limited explicit history 
to draw upon). The next time you consider posting something, ask 
yourself whether it might look the same if you prefaced it with 
something like "From my limited reading, it appears to me that..." - 
that way, instead of posting, you might just go off and do some studying 
(which might have been the purpose of the post you so decided to comment 
on in the first place).

As to throwing rats across a room, it does, on occasions, come pretty 
close to that - except the rooms tend to be quite small.

After you've spent a little time with "Two Dogmas" you might like to try 
Skinner's "A Case History in Scientific Method", Am. J. Psychol. 1956, 
11, 221-233, and perhaps a few of Skinner's canonical papers beginning 
with "Behaviorism at Fifty" in "The Selection of Behavior: The Operant 
Behaviorism of B F Skinner: Comments and Consequences" Eds A C Catania 
and S. Harnad 1988, Cambridge Press.


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David Longley