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Kyle
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As monstrous as it seems to base theories of learning on electric shock and puffs of air in creatures eyes, the way of knowing flies in the face of modern science’s old saw, correlation is not causation. Every bit of evidence in this book is extrapolated from a theory that mostly confirms what the tester already suspected would be the result. So even happy accidents like discovering mirror neurons feel like a sham.
— Dec 27, 2019 10:32PM
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Kyle
is on page 52 of 128
It is a tall order for a Short Introduction to cover every aspect of a given topic, but I am a bit let down by the limitations of Haselgrove’s focus on learning. So much of it explains the dastardly run experiments on rats, pigeons and people. Not so bad being compared to animal peers, but the implications of higher minds designing shock treatment is wrong, especial when income and profit temper the study.
— Dec 11, 2019 04:19PM
