More misinformation, and this time the "doctrine of radical behaviourism" is invoked. I'll quote it again: "A stimulus-response formula has no answer, but operant behavior is the very field of purpose and intention." -BF Skinner https://aeon.co/essays/the-biological-research-putting-purpose-back-into-life
Also, behavior is not "just learned (‘conditioned’) actions, trained into initially blank-slate minds." Radical behaviorism rejects the blank-slate premise: "A behavioristic analysis rests on the following assumptions: A person is first of all an organism...
"...a member of a species and a subspecies, possessing a genetic endowment of anatomical and physiological characteristics, which are the product of the contingencies of survival to which the species has been exposed in the process of evolution."
"The organism becomes a person as it acquires a repertoire of behavior under the contingencies of reinforcement to which it is exposed during its lifetime. The behavior it exhibits at any moment is under the control of a current setting."
"It is able to acquire such a repertoire under such control because of processes of conditioning which are also part of its genetic endowment." -BF Skinner
Radical behaviorism is mistaken for a form of logical positivism "when distinctions formulated in textbooks act to shape the discriminative capacities of the ensuing verbal community" -Willard Day https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-26561-001
Radical behaviorism does not reject the state of the organism; its thoughts, feelings, or intentions. These organismic states play a role in the control of behavior, but are not the causes of behavior themselves. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741891/pdf/behavan00063-0041.pdf
"Any aspects of human functioning that raise the philosophical problem of intentionality are likely to be regarded by behaviorists as operant behavior... Intentionality arises from the inherently functional nature of behavior...
"Behavior is followed by consequences. Some of these consequences (reinforcers) act biologically to change the organism, causing it to be more likely to emit similar behavior under similar controlling circumstances...
"Whenever behavior points forward, it always points forward to consequences that have been reinforcing in the past." -Willard Day https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-26561-001
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