The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that consciousness cannot be measured or observed through scientific experiments alone.
John B. Watson suggests that consciousness, a complex and subjective aspect of human experience, cannot be reduced to or studied solely through empirical scientific methods such as those used in behaviorism. This highlights the limitations of a purely scientific approach in understanding the intricacies of the mind.
In practice
In a psychology class while discussing the limitations of behaviorism.
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
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