[FRIAM] Movement vs. Behavior, and what's in the Black Box

uǝlƃ ☣ gepropella at gmail.com
Sun May 10 19:46:21 EDT 2020


Hm. Well, I've been talking about hidden states the whole time. So, I suppose you're simply not talking to me, despite having mentioned things I've said and using my name in some posts. I'll bow out.

On 5/10/20 1:44 PM, Eric Charles wrote:
> I offered the dead-duck vs the live-duck and Weekend at Bernie's as examples of movement that is not behavior. We can also talk about avalanches, the babbling brook, the explosion of the tree struck by lightening, the clouds blowing through the sky. The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of movement that occurs in the universe in not behavior. 
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> Also, I am exactly not talking about hidden states. We could talk about that at some point, for sure, but I wasn't talking about it before. I'm not sure what I might have said that lead you to think anything "hidden" was at issue. Certainly there are physically-internal states when we discuss organisms, but my exact point is that the phenomenon in question do not exist at that level of analysis. Back to Holt: 

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