#NedBlock - Can #Consciousness be #NonBiological?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6J7n8utnNw&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Qualia #SelfAwareness #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Dualism #Physicalism #Materialism #ExplanatoryGap #Behaviorism #Behaviourism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Coming soon via this #mastodon account.

The definitive guide to the #psychology that is causing the #ClimateCrisis

Spoiler alert! The guide will be a how to feel good by doing good environmental behaviors & activities. And how to even feel good about yourself (an intrinsic good), that other people are evidently wanting to do environmentally harmful behaviors and activities.

The psychology of #behaviorism & a wannabe #greenwashed
#business #consumerism society

#ClimateChange

P.S. #Stimming doesn’t just relieve stress, and ABAers aren’t “unwittingly” grooming kids for exploitation. #ActuallyAutistic and otherwise #Neurodivergent scholars, activists, and #ABA survivors have been saying #behaviorism violates #HumanRights and nonhuman #AnimalRights for decades. As Leonard Cohen said, “Everybody knows.”

#SayNoToABA #AllABA #BanABA #ABAisTorture

The #UnitedStates isn’t becoming #fascist; it’s been fascist.

Per Sheffer, “Asperger's diagnosis of autistic psychopathy emerged from the values and institutions of the Third Reich.”

And as Chomsky articulated, “The corporations are just as totalitarian as Bolshevism and fascism.”

#Autistic and otherwise #Neurodivergent people warned all of you about what would happen if you continued to enable #behaviorism, but you didn't heed our wisdom.

To quote @drrobertchapman, "Lenin visited Pavlov to ask him to help standardize the population."

"Standardization," in Einstein's view, "is a great peril which threatens American culture."

I understand what Freire dubbed the "fear of freedom," but this "initial stage of struggle" has lasted quite a long while.

> Chomsky and.. colleagues had to overthrow the then-dominant paradigm of #behaviorism.. by Harvard psychologist #BFSkinner, where animal behavior was reduced to a simple set of associations between an action and its subsequent reward or punishment. The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by #Chomsky's 1959 critical review of #Skinner's book #VerbalBehavior, a book in which Skinner attempted to explain linguistic ability using behaviorist principles.
#NoamChomsky

#behaviorism in the 90s was going through something

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733440

Modern #ConversionTherapy stems from #behaviorism, a manifestation of which is #ABAabuse, a system of rewards and punishments pioneered by #UCLA #psychologist O. Ivar Lovaas in the early 1960s to try to make #Autistic and otherwise #neurodivergent kids “indistinguishable from their peers.”

Many #neurominorities are also members of the #LGBTQIA+ community, as we experience and by extension express #gender, #sexuality, and #romance differently.

Thus, #ABA is not only #neuralist, it’s also #queerphobic, #racist, #classist, #sexist, and a ton of other things because there are obviously neurodivergent people in every minority group.

#FuckABA #ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #PBSfails #AbolishBehaviorism #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #PluralGang #ThursdayThoughts #ThursdayVibes

@Harishjosev

The problem with 2nd order #cybernetics, as I see it, is that the process of “observing how an observer is doing the observing” presumes that another (external, 2nd-order) observer has more to say and a better understanding of the original observing process than the (1st-order) observed observer itself that is actually doing the observation.

It seems to me like the tacit re-introduction of #behaviorism and control vs. controlled.

Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence

- School-Induced Anxiety
- We need to understand autism & change the circumstances.
- Seymour Papert Lost & B. F. Skinner Won
- The Bipartisanship of Behaviorism
- Behaviorism: Measuring the Surface, Badly
- Sensory Overwhelm & Meltdowns
- Autistic Burnout
- Autistic Adults & Autistic Community
- Education Technology & the New Behaviorism

https://stimpunks.org/access/education/

#education #behaviorism #edtech #neurodiversity

Behaviorist education is ableist education.

https://stimpunks.org/access/education/

#education #behaviorism #edtech #neurodiversity #accessibility #ableism

“You cannot understand the history of education technology in the United States during the twentieth century – and on into the twenty-first – unless you realize that Seymour Papert lost and B. F. Skinner won.”
—Audrey Watters

Behaviorism is dead.

Despite that,

Behaviorism won.

And neurodivergent and disabled students lost.

Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence

https://stimpunks.org/access/education/

#education #behaviorism #edtech #neurodiversity #accessibility

Letter to the Boston Globe on “The Mismeasure of Misha: My son broke free from the most common therapy for autism. Why is it used on so many kids like him?”

“I am writing this because I hate when neurodivergent or disabled people are silenced, over-looked and taken advantage of. That is exactly what happens with ABA therapy.”

https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/27/letter-to-the-boston-globe-on-the-mismeasure-of-misha-my-son-broke-free-from-the-most-common-therapy-for-autism-why-is-it-used-on-so-many-kids-like-him/

#autism #ABA #NAUWU #behaviorism #ActuallyAutistic

@JoelN Minority groups have been wrongfully pathologized to justify social hierarchies under #capitalism for centuries. Indeed, it wasn’t until May 17, 1990 that the World Health Organization depathologized homosexuality. The pathologization of #neurominorities, on the other hand, persists. As a consequence, #behaviorism, a pseudoscientific ideology designed to enforce compliance, lives on in dehumanizing practices like Applied Behavior Analysis and its insidious derivatives. Indeed, even grading is a behaviorist method, for it rewards obedience. Please read or listen to my latest post on Medium to learn why we must democratize #education and replace behaviorism with #neuroqueer pedagogy. #SolidarityForever

https://medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-we-really-a-democracy-a465a88f43da

#Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #queer #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #SocialJustice #MondayMotivation

A Fade to Extinction for Ethically Questionable Approaches That Disregard Neurodiversity

https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/10/a-fade-to-extinction-for-ethically-questionable-approaches-that-disregard-neurodiversity/

#autism #neurodiversity #ABA #behaviorism

@biomimic Last Wednesday, a state senator from the #Minnesota DFL Party visited the MNSU Student Government and told us on camera that he’s a capitalist. While, yes, I’ve had some success meeting with Democrats to advocate for the abolition of #behaviorism and support of worker-owned cooperatives, ultimately, there is no #NeurodivergentLiberation under #capitalism. There is, however, some variation within the DFL. Hopefully, some of the newly-elected representatives put their lived experience in marginalized communities to good use and follow through on their apparent commitment to support social movements. I’m looking forward to working with a couple politicians I’ve developed a rapport with over the last several months and pushing for policies to recognize #neurodiversity and civil rights for #neurodivergent citizens, among other things. #Solidarity

"Worker-owned cooperatives like Mondragon University in Basque Country, Spain provide a blueprint to build a more inclusive and by extension neurocosmopolitan environment, something Minnesota State Mankato and the Minnesota Legislature should pursue."

Please read or listen to my newly self-published article advocating for the democratization of #education and the abolition of #behaviorism

https://medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-we-really-a-democracy-a465a88f43da

#Neurodiversity #KineticAutistic #ActuallyAutistic #Socialism #NeurodivergentLiberation

@gisiger
Wait; history and science (including Milgram) of course confirm what I am saying.
Take the Milgram experiments: They show that you have to create fear and a climate of authoritarianism to subdue people and make them act according to your will. The same could be said about all of #behaviorism. It does not disprove what is said above at all! It just teaches us about the limits.

Why is science on the side of what I am saying? Because #democracy could not have been developed, otherwise!

@jjinsing I hesitate to give you, an expert, recommendations. 😬 But aside from all the animal cognition/emotions stuff I’m using as reference, Franz De Waal’s 2019 (popular not scientific) book _Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are_ is more or less a history of the field. In the first 2-3 chapters, he talks about the #behaviorism v. Ethologist approaches and the nature of scientific debate as it evolved from ca. 1920s-1970s. He’s decidedly on the #ethology side.

#CCCP #Behaviorism #Experimentalism #ParadigmNazis

cross-sectional correlational psychology

I hate the prejudice against research designs that considers laboratory studies with rats superior as a method to understand humans.

The design should match the research question.

@ilkyu95 the illusion of positive feedback can be overwhelming - and, no doubt, lead to reactions #Skinner would have been happy to describe as validating #behaviorism ;-)

Fortunately, "likes" aren't really important here on Mastodon (unless we make it so). Meaningful conversations are.

Maybe as a quip: in a very well known demonstrations of the #OperantConditioningChamber
the operant was a bird