Re: type writers and tooth aches II


"Curt Welch" <curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "JPL Verhey" <matterDELminds@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It was debated whether tooth aches are as physical as type writers.
>> According to Skinner they are. To my own surprise I found myself in
>> sudden and utter agreement with Skinner. What he once said, is indeed
>> entirely correct.
>>
>> What Skinner probably didn't realise when he said it though, is that
>> his
>> type writer is as much an experiential phenomenon as is his tooth
>> ache.
>> What matters, is that all experiential phenomena are of the same
>> "stuff" - the brain activity in his own skull.
>
> So you think Skinner didn't understand that the brain activity in our
> skull
> is what creates our experience? What on earth do you think he belived
> created it?

All I know is that he and his radical followers up to this date, respond
in extreme allergic fashion to words like mind, conscious experience
etc. and for decades tried to render it irrelevant to science in general
and to behavioral science in particular. They would not have done so if
they understood the importance of all brain activity, included
sentient-conscious brain activity to understand human behavior and
experience. Blame them Curt!


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