Re: Religion center in the brain

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Instead of seeking common ground you and Wolf argue semantics.

And as to any sort of common ground, the fact is that behavior analysis is
so far superior to cognitive "science" that any collaboration would have to
be largely unidirectional. Much of what is being suggested today about
memory and perception within cognitive psychology was discussed decades ago
by behaviorists. The Roediger and Mcdermott memory illusion, for example,
was predicted by Skinner in Verbal Behavior in his discussion of what he
called "intraverbals." The sensorimotor view of perception pushed by O'regan
and Noe? C'mon. There's a quote from O&N concerning visual representations
in the brain that could have been lifted from Skinner's "Behaviorism at
Fifty," though I am sure it was not. There is plenty of common ground, only
behaviorists were talking about it a half century ago and cognitivists lack
sufficient scholarship and integrity (speaking colloquially) to see that,
and there methods and conceptualization are simply inferior.





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