Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:43 AM 4/23/98 -0400, you wrote: > methods of REAL science to human behavior for the first time. So you > should read more about it, because it represents perhaps the greatest > and most profound revolution in all of human history. B. F. Skinner's > "About Behaviorism" is a good place to start (albeit dry reading). I have a social science degree. I know behaviorism, I know B.F. Skinner's thoughts, and I don't buy it. But that's irrelevant to this business of art anyway. If B.F. Skinner is right, than we are not sentient beings in any true sense, we are just automatons, reactions to stimuli. Our sense of self, our freedom, is an illusion. We have no free choice. And people would respond to social stimuli in the same way given the same circumstances in life. That is certainly hardly true. But it's an act of faith to buy it, or deny it. No social science is hard science. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.