Here, once again, is the infamous Sober article. I know. Half of you want to throw me off FRIAM for being so ignorant as to give my time to it, while the other half want to throw me off FRIAM for being so ignorant as to find fault with it. I confess that both of these could be true. It all revolves the consequences of "screening off" and it's possible relations to the claims of behaviorism. First I want to point out what I have now come to believe are devastating typos, typos which those of you who have already read the text for me might not have noticed because you knew what the passages SHOULD say, and so read right over what they actually said For me, with my very limited gasp of probability inference, was completely knocked flat by them and only quite recently come to believe that they are typos. For example, if a stimulus S raises the probability of inner state I, and I raises the probability of response R, then S raises the probability R, provided that I screens-off S from I. Screening-off means that Pr(R at t1 | I at t2 ) = Pr(R at t1 | I at t2 & S at t1 ). Note that the two passages contradict one another. I would simply disregard the first passage if it weren't repeated in the document's abstract: E1 and E2, each causally contribute to a behavior, B. In this case, postulating an inner state, I, that is caused by both E1 and E2, and which causes I, affects one's predictions concerning the relationship between environment and behavior. Notice also, that this exposition in the abstract contemplates a causal collision, where the burden of the article concerns causal forks. I have struggled to come up with a verbal account of "screening off" which is acceptable to either of my critiques. Here is another, Screening off means, where A==>B==>C, A has no effect on C other than its effect via B Could somebody settle the typo issue for me. I will stop for now. n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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