A Zen master held up a flower for his disciples to see and asked them
to say one word of relevance--just one word--about it. The disciples vied with
each other to outdo each other to come up with something profound as a
demonstration of their insight and the extent of his learning.
Clever Hans is bckk - this time in the form of a dog apparently. Oh boy...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9731570/Chinese-dog-is-maths-genius-according-to-owner.html
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
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Sometimes no response is just no response. Especially if one isn't
really paying attention but making believe that one is. What assumptions
does a master make about the disciples behavior in the story below
and how does anyone truly know what is in another's heart?
If all we have is behavior,
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:06:29 -0800, Michael Britt wrote:
Clever Hans is bckk - this time in the form of a dog apparently.
Oh boy...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9731570/Chinese-dog-is-maths-genius-according-to-owner.html
One wonders what Potato the Wonder Dog
Something about not knowing one's history, and being condemned to repeat it. :-)
Chris
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On 2012-12-11, at 9:06 AM, Michael Britt
Ah, Mike, but the silent disciple did respond--to several things.
Make it a good day
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Yes, I agree it is behavior under stimulus control...we shouldn't ignore the
existential grounding. The let's just care, etc. response is itself an
approach, and an ideologically loaded assumptive framework that would be
rejected by the Master. But then the master asked for words of
Never mind. That didn't work. Sorry.
cdg
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Christopher D. Green
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York University
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Canada
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On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:06:29 -0800, Michael Britt wrote:
Clever Hans is
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:28:19 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
Arf, arf, a. :-)
I think you mean:
Arf! Arf! Arf! Arzlkmnpqpwwqmlqmzopwipqaigjipasokqmpqlmqqm...
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012
New Zealand researchers teach dog to drive.The dog has been trained to turn
right or left.The dog is shaped by successive approximations.The project is
intended to assist specific individuals who may suffer a heart attack while
driving.
michael
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