Selection by Consequences.¶
Skinner, B. F. (1981). Selection by Consequences. Science, 213(4507), 501-504.
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Primes¶
- Natural Selection
- There is a deep and explicitly open structural question here — whether natural_selection is the genus of reinforcement, both being instances of "selection by consequence" (Skinner's phrase) operating at different levels (population/generational for selection, individual/lifetime for reinforcement).
This sourceArgues that natural selection and operant reinforcement are instances of one causal mode — selection by consequences — operating at the population/generational and individual/lifetime levels respectively; the source of the open genus question.
- There is a deep and explicitly open structural question here — whether natural_selection is the genus of reinforcement, both being instances of "selection by consequence" (Skinner's phrase) operating at different levels (population/generational for selection, individual/lifetime for reinforcement).
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