[TxMt] [OT] Re: TextMate and Transmit

Bruno Bronosky BrunosJunk at Bronosky.com
Mon Mar 7 22:36:32 UTC 2005


Get him Allan!

Thank you,

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On Mar 6, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2005, at 22:13, Sune Foldager wrote:
>
>> Gee... quit with the psycology already ;-) [...]
>
> You do know I actually studied psychology, that humans evolved from 
> animals with which we share a lot of our brain and that conditioning 
> is well documented and has been for at least half a century?
>
>> We're not dogs [...]
>
> I mentioned Pavlov's dogs because it's a classic experiment and about 
> a hundred years old. A similar classic, that has often been used with 
> humans is:
>
>    A human subject or an animal is subjected to an air puff
>    directed to the eye, which elicits a blink reflex. If the air
>    puff is repeatedly preceded by another stimulus, say a tone, the
>    tone will eventually itself elicit a blink just before the air
>    puff.
>
>       http://www.mphy.lu.se/avd/nf/hesslow/neuroscience/classcond.html
>
> But it's nice of you to inform us that you are beyond the restraints 
> of basic human physiology and think that software should therefor not 
> take such things into consideration -- I OTOH do!
>
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