# urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Feb 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *03 Feb 2005, 15:59* Skinner and his cohorts were well aware of the biological and evolutionary framework which underpinned their work. They chose to emphasise that this did not predetermine our fate. The belief in free-will only has significance to the behavioursists if it can be shown to influence our actions. It is not ruled out by a consideration of environmental factors. It is ironic that Turings early experiments, though innocent, shoould directly link to Von Neuman's notion of a self-replicating device. Like Le Maitre. > 2. Re: 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests? > (Chris) > At the risk of terrible boredom, this is a > reasonable reference: > > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/ ===== http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ I am not a number I am a free person! ---