A very thought provoking perspective - acknowledging that interesting phenomena, worth attending to, may "grow" in the experimental garden, while not jumping to the greedy conclusion that one has "dug out" a universal (the metaphor of garden and dig is memorable) Thanks!
Although the words stimulus, response and conditioning have fallen into disfavor, they have explanatory and predictive power. I hope that humans are not the deterministic automata of Skinner and Sapolsky. This essay gives shape to the new paradigm.
You’re pointing to the shift from treating behavior as something to be uncovered to treating it as something that grows under specific conditions. A digsite assumes a fixed truth waiting to be found, but a garden assumes a pattern that emerges through interaction. Narrative works the same way at two levels: internally, as the story that keeps a self coherent, and externally, as the shared structure that lets a collective coordinate. Both forms of narrative shape what remains possible for a system long before we notice the pattern forming.
A very thought provoking perspective - acknowledging that interesting phenomena, worth attending to, may "grow" in the experimental garden, while not jumping to the greedy conclusion that one has "dug out" a universal (the metaphor of garden and dig is memorable) Thanks!
Although the words stimulus, response and conditioning have fallen into disfavor, they have explanatory and predictive power. I hope that humans are not the deterministic automata of Skinner and Sapolsky. This essay gives shape to the new paradigm.
You’re pointing to the shift from treating behavior as something to be uncovered to treating it as something that grows under specific conditions. A digsite assumes a fixed truth waiting to be found, but a garden assumes a pattern that emerges through interaction. Narrative works the same way at two levels: internally, as the story that keeps a self coherent, and externally, as the shared structure that lets a collective coordinate. Both forms of narrative shape what remains possible for a system long before we notice the pattern forming.