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

— Wikipedia (@Wikipedia) February 6, 2018

- 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/ …

Pencils and Pixels: Drawing and Digital Media in Archaeological Field Recording https://t.co/DjWIzc2yqu pic.twitter.com/xxndi1g0ds

— Colleen Morgan (@clmorgan) February 6, 2018

https://twitter.com/clmorgan/status/960828142180061184

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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:

Great description of the hippy vision: Utopianism and BF Skinner - "B. F. Skinner - A World of Difference: Skinner and the Good Life (1979)" https://t.co/JlIoH5LLeX Begins around 10:10 mins re "getting away from the world, and designing " & Twin Oaks' community in rural Virginia

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 12, 2017

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

and

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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baboon

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Fire! - Rainbow, National Forest Service, Law Enforcement and Counterculture

Fire!

Toward the end of the Vision Council in the middle of a beautiful meadow in lovely weather on the last day of the Gathering, after the speaking feather had passed around the circle of 75 or so people, and most people had said something, a woman came running toward the group shouting: "Fire, fire - fire at Handicamp!"

Many people immediately ran toward the plume of smoke in the distance, grabbing shovels and water.

I headed toward the smoke after 10 minutes or so, and after trying to find out more information.

I walked with many others for 30-45 minutes, probably 1.5 miles to 2.5 miles, in the direction of the smoke through a Lodgepole pine forest, over lots of fallen wood, but still open forest. After crossing a wire fence possibly 1.5 miles away from the main meadow, which may have indicated leaving National Forest land, and entering Bureau of Land Management land, many Rainbow people were spread out making their way through the forest to try to help put out the fire. By the time I and another woman got close enough to the fire to see dark smoke, the mosquitoes were thick, and a helicopter was flying over head dropping flame retardant. There was a wind, and I was trying to get upwind of the fire, and was also concerned about fire's fickleness, and the woman I was with was scared, so we turned back. The distance we had covered, and the fence we had crossed made it clear that this fire hadn't started in a Rainbow Gathering camp, contrary to what the woman at the Vision Circle said. Some young men from the Rainbow Gathering who were nearby said they had to come to put out the fire, one saying he would risk his life to do so.

When we got back to the meadow, much of the Rainbow Gathering was heading home. The fire was put out. I didn't hear from anyone who had gotten close to the fire. And it was a curious fire with curious timing. To have a fire around 2 miles from the Gathering was not safe. As we were driving out of the Bridger-Teton National Forest and leaving the Gathering, I saw about 15 fire fighting vehicles, including the helicopter, parked in a meadow. How did they get up there so fast? Was this fire near the Rainbow Gathering a National Forest Service planned, controlled burn?


Law Enforcement in the Rainbow Kids' Village

On July 1, 2008 at dusk, the first day of the Gathering, during the first circle in main Meadow, law enforcement officials came into Kiddiecamp - the kids' village at Rainbow Gathering, - with guns. Here are some videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S1SL58BHBSc&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cV9s7rT1-iY&feature=related

There are more videos on youtube.

I stayed in the circle 150 yards away, and from a distance saw a kind of Rainbow mob reaction to this intrusion, where about 1/4 of possibly 200-400 people broke away from the main circle to go to this challenge.


The State and Rainbow Councils

The "state," in the form of law enforcement, seemed to do something very dangerous and senseless here by going into the kids' camp with guns. And did they have any kind of role in starting the fire 2 miles away? These events echo a social pattern from the 60s and 70s that helped produce and enlarge counterculture.

Rainbow Gathering councils, drawing on native American decision-making processes, as a viable form of group decision-making process that are now 37 years old, are a refreshing and fascinating alternative to 'mainstream' decision-making processes such as those used by state bureaucracies in our rational-technical-legal order.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fire

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