Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/24

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Subject: Re[3]: [Leica] Re:an objective evaluation [OFF-TOPIC]
From: Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:33:16 -0400
 
     
     Eric Welch wrote:
     
I have a social science degree. I know behaviorism, I know B.F. Skinner's 
thoughts, and I don't buy it...If B.F. Skinner is right, than we are not 
sentient beings...just automatons, reacti[ng] 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.
     
     You're right, of course, Eric: those things are NOT true.  But neither 
     are they what Behaviorism is about nor what Skinner said (which I'd be 
     more than happy to discuss further with anyone privately---just not in 
     this forum, where it's all pretty far off-topic, even for me).
     
     Art Peterson