5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)

Andy Robertson · 03 Feb 2005, 16:53 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Thu Feb  3 16:53:51 2005
Subject: (urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)
Message-ID: <E1CwrjI-000O93-JO at oceanus.uk.clara.net>

 

> Doesn't behaivour, and epiphenomenon arising from mechanisms
> responsible for behaivour *have* to be enviromentally driven? 
> Anything else would have elements of randomness in it (with respect to
> enivromental concerns; other behaivour driven by things other than
> epiphenomenon or alternative, not enviromentally driven motives might
> make perfect sense in its own scheme, but still at least somewhat
> random from the enviromental point of view.) and so would selected
> against evolutionarily, and by now, non-existent.
 

This really doesn't mean any thing I can understand. 

 


How is it we are talking about Wolfe and Skinner without mentioning "The 
Death od Doctor Island", his most obviously anti-Skinnerian story?

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