tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post116178927775030406..comments2024-03-28T19:14:33.619-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: AttensityEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-1161973226215849502006-10-27T11:20:00.000-07:002006-10-27T11:20:00.000-07:00Thanks for clarifying that. I was getting worried...Thanks for clarifying that. I was getting worried about my understanding of Koehler! Nice quote, by the way, at the end of your remark.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-1161972818508066742006-10-27T11:13:00.000-07:002006-10-27T11:13:00.000-07:00Oh, you are perfectly right.He is not behaviorist,...Oh, you are perfectly right.<BR/>He is not behaviorist, he just gives those two commandments in his book as part of his critique of behaviorism.<BR/>One of the main ideas of the critique is that while behaviorism wants to mimic successful sciences, it fails to do that, becoming dogmatically conservative.<BR/>He says about the second commandment - "Even now, as an adult science, physics permits itself at least one new idea about the nucleus of the atom per year. In spite of youth of psychology , it seldom seems to occur to Behaviorists that new functional idea could be needed in our science. Apparently, when Behaviorism was born, somebody put final truth about the functional possibilities of the organism into the cradle"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-1161968770131700092006-10-27T10:06:00.000-07:002006-10-27T10:06:00.000-07:00The Two Commandments?I'm surprised to hear Koehler...The Two Commandments?<BR/><BR/>I'm surprised to hear Koehler sounding so behaviorist, especially given his famous work on "insight"! (Is insight a conditioned reflex? I thought the whole idea was that it's not... but maybe I should go review my Koehler!)Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-1161957837832497252006-10-27T07:03:00.000-07:002006-10-27T07:03:00.000-07:00"Thou", and not "though" of course . Anyway, I pic..."Thou", and not "though" of course . Anyway, I picked that up from Gestalt Psychology by Wolfgang Kohler that I'm reading , and he writes there about those similar issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-1161957326130494572006-10-27T06:55:00.000-07:002006-10-27T06:55:00.000-07:00-Though shalt not acknowledge direct experience in...-Though shalt not acknowledge direct experience in psychology.<BR/>-Though shalt not conceive of other functions but reflexes and conditioned reflexes<BR/><BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com