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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It Possible to Invent Some Story Where Everything Is Moment by Moment Thought, but Do You Still Get the Same Answer?

Behaviorists have tried to explain it on the basis of associative learning and conditioning. But they've become less and less successful with that, he says. And also, their whole field now consists mostly of countering ideas instead of generating new ideas. It has helped us design better studies, but i would say it's largely unsuccessful.

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