Re: Perceptual symbol systems

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:57:09 -0400

Sergio Navega wrote:

> "Glen M. Sizemore" <gmsizemore2@yahoo.com> escreveu na mensagem
[...]
>>SN: If it is that difficult for you to understand what one means by
>>"store",
>>perhaps you would say that a piece of paper with a telephone number
>>written on it and which is put inside a drawer *is not* an example of
>>"storage of information".
>>
>>GS: No, that is an example of storage.
>
>
> So this means that if this piece of paper contained not a phone number,
> but a numbered account of a swiss bank full of money, that would not,
> in your vision, be an example of storage of information. What a sad
> vision of reality you behaviorists have.

Sergio, that must be the most stupid rejoinder I have seen in this
thread yet.

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