Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Baboon: "This is a Pigeon," BF Skinner was such an original, and empirical, thinker ... and Harvard professor, Re your mentioning a TV-watching media reward for yourself ... and re ... Behaviorism - schedules of reinforcement - and re learning in pigeons, it would be a fascinating process to code for this in a realistic virtual earth ... esp. if coders could create the APPLICATION/PROGRAM which converts all of Skinner's pigeon/lab animal experiments in video into interactive 3D Virtual Reality for subsequent experimentation, as well as replicability of Skinner's experiments, Could see myself taking off in a sense from Skinner's thinking in Cambridge, but in very different directions, if I begin to teach at MIT this autumn, 1) So coding for behaviorism and learning in a realistic virtual earth with species would be a first focus for me in facilitating creating a realistic virtual earth - think Google Street View with time slider with Earth and group build-able, 2) A second focus would be facilitating drawing for archaeology - in such a realistic virtual Google Earth, for example ... and also at Harbin, Harbin Hot Springs in a realistic virtual Harbin / earth could also become a site paralleling both Twin Oaks ... as well as Skinner boxes for behaviorist experiments in completely new way



Tues, Feb 6, 2018

 Hi M,

 BF Skinner was such an original, and empirical, thinker ... and Harvard professor.
Re your mentioning a TV-watching media reward for yourself ... and re ... 

Behaviorism - schedules of reinforcement - and re learning in pigeons, it would be a fascinating process to code for this in a realistic virtual earth ... esp. if coders could create the APPLICATION/PROGRAM which converts all of Skinner's pigeon/lab animal experiments in video into interactive 3D Virtual Reality for subsequent experimentation, as well as replicability of Skinner's experiments.

 ... and especially for Verbal Behavior (and re modeling species' brains at the cellular and street view levels).

 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_Behavior

 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_cognition
I could also see myself taking off in a sense from Skinner's thinking in Cambridge, but in very different directions, if I begin to teach at MIT this autumn ...
L, Scott


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This is a pigeon. pic.twitter.com/LINXru1LBV


- https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/960897881388601344



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So, coding for behaviorism, and learning, in a realistic virtual earth with species would be a first focus for me in facilitating creating a realistic virtual earth - think Google Street View with time slider with Earth and group build-able.

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A second focus would be facilitating drawing for archaeology - in such a realistic virtual Google Earth, for example ... and also at Harbin, since Harbin didn't allow camera use on property before the devastating fire of September 12 / 13, 2015


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... and re this recently published blog post and article ...


Pencils and Pixels: Drawing and Digital Media in Archaeological Field Recording https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/pencils-and-pixels-drawing-and-digital-media-in-archaeological-field-recording/ …





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And Harbin Hot Springs in a realistic virtual Harbin / earth could also become a site paralleling both Twin Oaks in Virginia ... as well as Skinner boxes for virtual world behaviorist experiments in completely new ways.

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See, too, especially:



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/929787465006686208
(and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/pongo-utopian-communities-hippy.html)

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Moraine lake: Loving bliss neurochemistry generation and behaviorist theory/operant conditioning re schedules of reinforcement?, Even communitas generation re communication, Jeffrey Walsh MD has teaching experience at Khan Academy about operant conditioning and behaviorism, "Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)", "Neurophysiology", "Virtual_Worlds", "Psychiatry", "Psychology", "Caring_and_Loving" wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning planned in all countries' official languages

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/moraine-lake-loving-bliss.html

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Pinus merkusii: BF Skinner and Self? Re Behaviorism, Searched on this in Google and found "B. F. Skinner - Self Management of Behavior (1976)", Also had Yoga in mind - where might there be overlaps with Iyengar Yoga for example with Behaviorism?, Re temper tantrums as behavioral problem, "What have you done to try to control some of these behaviors?" "Punishment, a lot of whippings", Skinner (wearing a kind of hippy shirt, even): ... the child has not re-inforced himself, but he makes a clear record of his behavior, which makes him ready for reinforcement or worthy and deserving of reinforcement, So with Yoga (I'm thinking here of ... 1) practicing Asana re Iyengar, but then independently of the authoritarian teacher, such as Iyengar, ~ and with regards to Yoga teachers and hippies' Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten ~ and 2) re Dona Holleman's self-published books A) Yoga Syllabus for Teacher and Student and B) Asana in Photo, which I used for some years to develop my own Yoga asana practice ... and where I used a timer in practicing the yoga poses/asanas ... ) ... So 1) daily writing and 2) daily yogic sitting seem to have emerged in my life as (behaviorist behavioral) self-generated reinforcers, "Guidelines for practicing a music instrument", Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument, * There's much about LEARNING love in this blog post

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/pinus-merkusii-bf-skinner-and-self-re.html




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