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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
Grant, I take it there is a lot of bad blood between behaviorists and non-behaviorists in the cognitive sciences.
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Not particularly. Behaviourist approaches to learning about the brain are, of course, still in regular use. No-one denies that behaviour is jolly interesting stuff that can tell us lots of interesting things.
It's just the attempts of "strict behaviourists" to deny the usefulness of
other approaches that have become a little wearisome by now:
that notion was bankrupt by the middle of last century, and modern fast functional imaging makes it just plain silly to persist with it.
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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
I was just trying to understand what a single neuron can do you for you and its importance in the overall Halle Berry-related neural fireworks.
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So why did you ask what happened when a single neurone was separated from the brain by a thousand miles? How did you imagine such an experiment would advance your quest for understanding?
Grant Hutchison