{"id":360,"date":"2005-10-06T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2005-10-06T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T09:30:52","slug":"operant_conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/06\/operant_conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Operant Conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, did everyone see last night&#8217;s episode of <i>Lost<\/i>? I&#8217;m with Jack &#8212; the underground station that looks like a leftover set from Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home.att.net\/%7Epaxteam21\/G2\/g2.html\"><i>Genesis II<\/i><\/a> is just a big psychology experiment. The reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B._F._Skinner\">B.F. Skinner<\/a> was a dead giveaway, and even if it wasn&#8217;t, wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense for the station&#8217;s builders to automate the system that has to be reset every hour-and-a-half to avoid Total Global Destruction? Yep, no doubt in my mind: <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skinner_box\">an experiment<\/a>. And what the hell&#8217;s up with Sawyer letting that little girlie girl take his gun? Getting shot in the shoulder must&#8217;ve caused his IQ to drop a few points&#8230; as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr., said under similar circumstances, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t trust her; why did you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, did everyone see last night&#8217;s episode of Lost? I&#8217;m with Jack &#8212; the underground station that looks like a leftover set from Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s Genesis II is just a big psychology experiment. The reference to B.F. Skinner was a dead giveaway, and even if it wasn&#8217;t, wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense for the station&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}