Posted by
Nick Thompson on
May 04, 2010; 8:06pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Behaviorism-tp5003979p5005393.html
Glen,
Not clear why a behaviorist should stand up for this. Cruelty is cruelty
from the point of view of any theory.
Behaviorists didn't invent reward and punishment -- nor it's abuses. But
reading down, if these kids come to them in as bad shape as they appear to
... constant gruesome self manipulation, etc. ... I can imagine how
therapists might get drawn into some pretty dark places.
Behaviorism is (for me, anyway) a conversation about what makes sense to
talk about, if you want to understand people. And its only ethical
implication (for me) is that when people start claiming that they "Really
Feel X -- No, REALLY!" when their behavior implies a belief in "Not-X"
(Think Goldman Sachs), I move my wallet to an inside pocket.
My only thought was that Mishkin's satire of aura's and spirit and all the
other "crap" that "Storm" was shilling, really applies equally to "mind".
Well, almost equally.
Nick
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (
[hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella <
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> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> Date: 5/4/2010 9:46:55 AM
> Subject: [FRIAM] Behaviorism
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> I'd be grateful for a Behaviorist take on the following story:
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