From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 19:54:19 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
[gts wrote:]
>> I'm not a fan of behaviorism but I can understand Diamond in those
>> terms.
>
> I don't think that behaviorism is necessarily required to
> understand what he is getting at. Animals naturally eat and
> reproduce to fill their habitat niche to capacity. If their
> food source cannot replenish fast enough, there are die offs
> and food sources are eventually made extinct. Look at goats
> and sheep that infest so many islands denuded of trees,
> bushes, and much of everything else.
That is also a behaviorist view of animal psychology. "It doesn't matter
that they might think," say the behaviorists, "It only matters what they do.
Animal nature is defined by what they do in and to their environments,
regardless of their conscious subjective intentions."
-gts
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