urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

Jim Raylor · 03 Feb 2005, 15:59 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk (Jim Raylor)
Date: Thu Feb  3 15:59:49 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6
In-Reply-To: <20050203200430.4F37698881 at che.dreamhost.com>
Message-ID: <20050203235945.49377.qmail at web25707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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/

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