RichardKennaway comments on The Comedy of Behaviorism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 03 August 2008 02:40:07PM 2 points [-]

poke: Your argument applies to any mental phenomena whatsoever, a position which I consider sufficiently silly to not trouble with further. The problem is intentionality, which can be explained as rainbows are explained, not as kobolds are explained away. Operant conditioning is insufficient even for the latter.