It has often been remarked that an educated man has probably forgotten most of the facts he acquired in school and university. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner (New Scientist (31 May 1964, p. 484))
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Education #Facts
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
Philosophy of mind – Psychoanalysis, behaviourism and the science of the mind
#philosophyofmind #psychoanalysis #behaviourism #sigmundfreud #gilbertryle #bfskinner #dualism #ReneDescartes #mind #philosophy #psychology #historyofphilosophy
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/psychoanalysis-behaviourism-and-the-science-of-the-mind/
DON't go crazy with the Internet!
"Do people really allow their devices to interrupt them on a random reinforcement schedule? I mean, no wonder the internet makes people go crazy. I'm not a big believer in #BFSkinner, but I think it's well established that any stimulus that occurs at random intervals is impossible to get used to, and shocks you anew every time it recurs."
Check out @pluralistic 's #blogging and #socialmedia habits 4 a sane #internetExperience.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gimme-five/
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-- B. F. Skinner
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Crime #HumanBehavior #Punishment
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
-- B. F. Skinner
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Education #Reading
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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Analysing #ElonMusk in terms of a #SkinnerBox.
A psychologist #BFSkinner put a row of closed boxes up. Each with a pidgeon inside. A little food was dropped in at random intervals.
After some days or weeks the boxes were opened.
And each pidgeon was performing a stereotyped movement, (ascribing agency here) trying to get more food.
Seems that whatever action the pidgeon happened to be doing when first random food arrived was biased to happen more frequently.
TROM II: Humans are like water - videos.trom.tf/w/btwnwUznSeq6X…
#humanbehavior #humans #behavior #bfskinner #society #culture
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-- B. F. Skinner
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Crime #HumanBehavior #Punishment
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
Long ago I setup a "mail-room" by using my secure back entrance as a place for packages to be left. 90% of the delivery people for Fedex, UPS, and Amazon use it properly and follow the provided instructions.
I've decided that those that do should be rewarded for their good behaviors! #operantconditioning #behaviorism #bfskinner
#BFSkinner
#RadicalBehaviorism
#SelectionByConsequences
Do you really want to know why so many people are horrible and our cultures mostly suck?
It's about the #ContingenciesOfReinforcement people!
It's ALWAYS about the contingencies of reinforcement.
Download the book free:
https://www.bfskinner.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CoR.pdf
"if it’s demeaning to run around in a rat maze, it’s far more undignified to be the person managing the maze”
#TedGioia #Scrolling #Swiping #TikTok #BFSkinner #Optimism
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/were-living-in-a-scroll-and-swipe
I did not direct my life.
I didn’t design it.
I never made decisions.
Things always came up
and made them FOR me.
That’s what life is.
#Reinforcement
#operant #conditioning
#radical #behaviorism
#behavior #analysis
#verbal behavior
#BFSkinner 🥳
#fredricwertham 🥳
#fredrogers 🥳
#Ovid 🥳
#Ibsen 🥳
#BalthasarBekker 🥳
#TorbernBergman 🥳
I'm in pieces
Bits & Pieces
Since you left me
& you said 🖐🏻
All I do is 🪑 & 😭
You went away
& left me 😪
That's the way it'll always be
You said you 🥰 me
& you'd always be mine
We'd be 👫
till the end of ⏳
Now you say
it was just a game
But all you're doin'
is leavin' me 😖
#TheDaveClarkFive
20 Mar 1964🇺🇸
14 Feb 1964🇬🇧
Beatles v DC5 begins
#BFSkinner🎂 was right
#Chomsky was wrong
#popmusic #1960s #BritishInvasion
> Chomsky and.. colleagues had to overthrow the then-dominant paradigm of #behaviorism.. by Harvard psychologist #BFSkinner, where animal behavior was reduced to a simple set of associations between an action and its subsequent reward or punishment. The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by #Chomsky's 1959 critical review of #Skinner's book #VerbalBehavior, a book in which Skinner attempted to explain linguistic ability using behaviorist principles.
#NoamChomsky
#BFSkinner probably got his ideas about #behaviormodification from #Dewey s reflex Arc writings as well a #Pavlov #psychology #pragmatism #philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/#AssoIntrPhysPsyc
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do
#BFSkinner
