Sang sung:

(Bruce J. Richman) wrote of Mmucklevy:

He's on autopilot. Or more precisely, auto-operant conditioning in an RAO
Skinner bos (metaphorically speaking, of course).

"Skinner bos"????

What's that?


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S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t








Sorry. My typographical error. The silly AOL Usenet reader does not have a
spell checker or I would use it.

I meant to say a "Skinner box".

A Skinner box is the type of cage used by the famous American psychologist,
B.F. Skinner to train rats and other animals. Skinner was famous for
developing theories of what has come to be known as operant conditioning. In
operant conditioning, a response that has as its consequence a postive
reinforcement, for example food, will be repeated as long as the reward is
forthcoming. In a typical Skinner box set up, a rat would press a lever or bar
attached to a device that would dispence meat pellets. Whenever the rat pressd
the bar, he would get "reinforced" with a meat pellet (Under a schedule known
as fixed ratio reinforcement where each response would produce a reward. Other
types of schedules were also possible). For McKelvy, his idiotic, libelous,
psychotic fabrications whenever he sees my name resemble very closely the
conditioned responses of a rat in a cage.

Here is a reasonable theory to explain his 7 year history of libel, robotic
paranoid & delusional fabrications at the sight of my name. Whenever this
hatemonger sees my name, his paranoid delusional system takes over and the
voices in his head tell him to spew forth some additional smears, insults and
other predictable fabvrications. Metaphorically speaking, for a highly
conditioned subhuman animal like McKelvy, my name represents the "bar or lever"
in the Skinner box (which is RAO or McKelvy's cage), and his delusional belief
that he is giving a people a "message" that they agree with is his positive
reinforcement.



Bruce J. Richman