SKINNER - ABA
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pure genius.
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@Neilgs This guy never read a line about Skinner. So wrong.
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No, I am in university but middle school was a lot of fun and people in middle school should be envied not look down upon. But look, if you want to continue to believe in magical thinking that's your choice. There are a lot of palm readers and paranormal activity enthusiasts who share a lot in common with you.
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@DiamondSou "Sometimes the truth is hard to handle." Yes, Indeed, particularly when you can't read/digest or are in denial. Your response shows ZERO ability for you to reflect and intelligently respond to what I had written. Your phrase here is a worn, vapid (empty) inane cliche that shows your complete inability to either A) Understand what I had written or B) React in a Pavlovian automaton-like manner (either you are in middle School or you are the perfect replica of non-reflection?
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Sometimes the truth is hard to handle.
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@FACES4kids And become a simplistic. unempathic and non-reflective robot in the process!
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@DiamondSoul Yes, how extraordinarily terrible, you know this illusory thing called free will and the human being as magical. Skinner was a minimalist who ushered in automaton-hood as gospel. With all due respect to his personhood, his philosophical pragmatism and behavioral reductio ad absurdum mechanics reduced man and humanity (some would misguidingly and perversely say "liberate") to a bete (animal) machine!
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This is Skinner's last talk at APA in 1990.
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Applied behavioral analysis is so neat because people can see the changes they are making in their own life, using a few simple tools.



Chomsky placed too much emphasis on free will and the human as being magical. Skinner was a brilliant scientist who shed a lot of light on existence.
DiamondSoul 9 months ago 4
Free will is a folk psychological term and also religious dogma. The brain doesn't function in the simplistic ways described by pop psychology. And trying to tell the believer free will doesn't exist is like telling the believer angels, spirits, demons or other supernatural beings don't exist. Skinner couldn't have written a layman's book on the subject anyone could read, because the book would contradict the sense of reality of the believer and the folk psychologist alike (watch?v=KZS0YTsacd0)
unseenstrings 1 year ago 4