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<p>Bob, Yes, this is a great paper. It was a critique of Skinner's "operant" reflex. Kornorski quite correctly pointed out that probably don't call it a reflex. Skinner had realized as compared to classical conditioning that operants were more of an equivalence
class (generalization issues--and a backdoor to symbolic structures) . ie the referenced paper in <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">BF
Sknner, The generic nature of the concepts of stimulus and response.<span> </span></span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">J.
Gen. Psychol.,<span> </span></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">1935,
12, 40-65.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Kornorski
had also shown interactions between CC and OC. probably undermining Skinner's original claim he discovered OC. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Skinner
responded to Kornorski and Miller.. a very civilized debate.</span></p>
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Well, the Charlie Gross paper on Lettvin and the Grandmother cell expends many more lines (pages) on Konorski than on Lettvin. Konorski was an outstanding scientist. The 1934 Konorski & Miller paper on the associations underlying classical conditioning is probably
the coolest paper I’ve ever read - it vies with Hecht, Schlaer, and Pirenne (1941?) as my favourite.</div>
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<b>From: </b>Gabriele Scheler <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gscheler@gmail.com">
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 26 August 2026 at 20:18<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Connectionists<br>
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What happened to my post to connectionists? Awaiting moderation? And what is the joke about Marvin Minsky influencing scientology and calling himself the devil?</div>
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Compared to that my post went straight to the topic:</div>
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My published work addressing concept cells and distributed representations via high information nodes ("index cells"), my concern at suppressing researchers as exemplified by James Bowers' report, my suggestion at a more inclusive rather than narrow parochial
view on neural network history and a valuable reference to Konorski as the originator of Hebbian learning - who was ostracized during Stalin's time, an experience that one should not want to repeat.</div>
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