(May 13, 2021 at 8:54 am)Ranjr Wrote: Classical and operant conditioning make testable predictions. Too many here are focused on early theorists while ignoring Skinner and the like.
For those who wax philosophical over every little thing (eyeroll included), let me ask: do we really want a science that links neurology to thoughts? Because that's sounds dystopian AF.
Well, we are already producing implants that can read minds and allow paralyzed people to use their minds to write on a computer. I suspect that it won't be long before prosthetics will be mind-controled and thereby much more useful.
And, if thoughts and neurology *are* linked, then the science will eventually be produced. Like most science and technology, it will have both good and bad effects. But to pretend they are not linked when, in fact, they are, seems just like denial.
