Caledonian2 comments on The Comedy of Behaviorism - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2008 08:42PM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 03 August 2008 10:37:47PM 0 points [-]

that the mind mystically survives the death of the body.

That's not helpful here, in a discussion about how different meanings of the word mind were expressed in doctrinal positions of the distant past.

(Watson, Skinner GOOD, Freud BAD)

That has more to do with your preconceptions than anything I've said. My actual positions did not contribute to my posts; if they had, and were they to be stated the crude way you used, they would be (Watson, Skinner BAD, Freud MONSTROUS).