The Behaviorist Theory of Mind

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Why not call it "behavioral dispositionism"
Comment from : Looney Crow

It seems more like a rhetorical tool than something anyone would actually believe
Comment from : Apple Islander

anyone knows which article of Armstrong he is referring to ?
Comment from : Lucas Ferrer

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Comment from : Roberto Chacon

Don't you hate it when it's 3am, and you suddenly realize that you're being jealous, spying on others in your car
Comment from : Manuel Lafond

Well, how crazy is behaviorism?
Comment from : Psychol-Snooper

expression of behaviour could mean no expression of it is expression of it
Comment from : mohamed milad

7:21brThis argument does not destroy behaviorism, as one can watch brain activity through sensitive medical instruments to note changes in the physical brain which will be displayed on a view screen as one's mood changes
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loud ass intro
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Imagine if someone told you a very private, very important, secret One that you would never tell no matter what anyone could do to you (say, for example, the location of nuclear launch codes) If you were a strong willed person, and set out to keep private the secret, you would have no disposition to exhibit the exact behavior of someone who really knew the answer (namely, to tell someone the secret) yet that would not change the fact that you know it, in your mental state
Comment from : Allan K

Isn't it the case that mind is part of the physical world because its functions are basically the firing of patterns of neurons? These are physical events
Comment from : Colin Hankin

I had no idea that these were for a proper college course, just watching for fun
Comment from : Jordan Cridland

Behaviorist:"Being angry is doing angry things" Regular Person: "But I was angry and didn't do anything" Behaviorist: "Maybe not, but you were disposed to do things!" This is a shockingly bad argument You can't just call internal mental states "dispositions" and act like that fixes the problems in a theory which claims that mental states aren't internal
Comment from : Plate Oshrimp

“Behaviorism specifies some of the events or things in the physical world and says ‘Those—that’s what mental activity is, those physical events, specifically, of course, behavioral events—and by “behavior” we mean outwardly observable movements’ ”brI’m not sure where David Armstrong got his behaviorist theory from but that seems to be a description of imethodological behaviorism/i that is roughly a century out of date, roughly John B Watson’s behaviorism of the 1910s and 1920s It strikes me as a classic mischaracterization of what behaviorism has been for at least half a centurybrbrBF Skinner, who was, perhaps, the leading of exponent of behaviorism, said nothing of the sort and, in fact, said the opposite He absolutely acknowledged “private events” and said it was simply more behavior to account for (That was what made his iradical behaviorism/i “radical”) Thought is inot/i “speaking and writing” 5:53—it is, , at least, to the extent it is verbal, “covert verbal behavior”—and very much “an inner process,” or, as Skinner would say, “within the skin” Anger is not ijust/i “the aggressive behavior itself”—it is whatever the internal bodily state associated with anger is Behavior is not just “outwardly visible” 15:33—it iis/i something private that the agent knows more directly than other people
Comment from : Jeff W

So who actually holds or held behaviorism? Because it seems pretty implausible
Comment from : calorion

Behavioralism seems unimaginably guilty of missing the simplest point ever, which is that dispositions are still privately experienced I can't wrap my head around how a person could ever suggest that external behaviors are a complete account of the stuff of minds without being a literal zombie
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Comment from : Divinia Aspiras

Why isn't physicalism obviously true to anyone who could split open a brain? Simply seeing that there is an organ inside - and the high likelihood that the organ you're looking at is responsible for the thoughts you have - therefore everything must be made out off stuff, including your mind?
Comment from : Alex Bos

There's a joke about Behaviorism I red a view weeks ago but I just now get it It goes something like this:brWhat does the Behaviorist say to his wife after he made love to her?br"It was cleary good for you how was it for me?"
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The difference between a methodological and radical behaviorism comes down to one question br brWhat is a reinforcer? brFor a methodological behaviorist, a reinforcer is any event virtual or real that changes any attribute of behavior, from rate to intensity to form brFor a radical or biological behaviorist, a reinforcer is a positive change in a specific neurologic state that is embodied by an affective tone or feeling br brThe latter definition was proposed by the radical behaviorists John Donahoe and David Palmer in 1994, and was independently confirmed by the affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge in the same and following decades Donahoe and Palmer proposed a neurologically grounded definition of reinforcement Reinforcement reflected a discrepancy principle, when behavior is continually mediated by the activity of dopamine neurons elicited by continuous correction error between predictions and outcomes Dopamine scales with the importance of the reinforcer, and is responsible for a feeling of energy and arousal, but not pleasure The reinforcement principle from methodological behaviorism is still the guiding principle of present-day behaviorists or behavior analysts, but discrepancy principles are now core to incentive motivation theories in radical behaviorism as reflected by modern affective neuroscience br brThe difference between these two principles is stark in both principle and practice Whereas a methodological behaviorist is concerned about the effectiveness of reinforcers, a radical behaviorist Is concerned about how reinforcement induces affect To a teacher, parent, society, or politic, the effectiveness of reinforcement is paramount However, for an individual, affect in reinforcement is of first importance The latter is reflected in the recent work of Berridge, who emphasized that behavior change must be oriented to eliciting continuous positive affect, which is epitomized by an active and meaningful life With this perspective where individual feelings are critical for motivation and positive affect or ‘happiness’, the metric for success for behaviorists is not behavioral control, but individual freedom, and a behaviorally engineered society that focuses on constructing the avenues that enrich the meaning or value of life, or an individual’s fully realized self-control in a free society br br brJohn Donahoe: Behavior Analysis and Neuroscience br wwwscribdcom/document/426400833/Behavior-Analysis-and-Neuroscience-1 br brThe Joyful Mind: Kringelbach and Berridge br siteslsaumichedu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Ampdf br br‘A Mouse’s Tale’ Learning theory for a lay audience from the perspective of modern affective neuroscience br wwwscribdcom/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature
Comment from : AJ MARR

The counterexample does not work The claim is that we can know that a person is angry without any manifestation of this state of anger, but how are we supposed to know that this person was angry? If you can answer this question you have revealed behavioural or physical attributes that are indicative of a state of anger If you cannot answer the question the claim that the person is angry is unsubstantiated brbrThe basis of behaviourism is a rejection of the dualist belief that physical events can result from non-physical causes A refutation of behaviourism would have to provide an account of how immaterial causes can have material effects No such account plausibly exists
Comment from : Martin Bennett

Thank you you’ve done very well, with talking about the ideas behind behaviouralism……Next?
Comment from : Darren Cheasley

It's ironic that neurodiverse folks are chided for lacking theory of mind by Behaviorist (as behaviorism teaches that people have no internal motivation but merely respond to external stimuli) bBehaviorism leads to addiction in neurodiverse people because they are taught not to think but merely to respond to outer stimuli and they get baited into developing habits by a reward scheme/b
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Comment from : Kayla Gaspar

It would be great a vídeo about physicalism and the consecuences of deny it, like in the vídeo about Thomas nagel you say Great class
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