Conditioned reflexes
by I. P. Pavlov · first published 1960
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This is quite far from being the case. Dr. Pavlov's seminal book is generally translated as Conditioned Reflexes. Saliva in response to a bell is a reflex, and it's an acquired one. Not falling flat on our face when we step forward is also reflexive, as is catching something thrown to us. Both are acquired through…
on “Never trust a system that seems to be working” ↗…typical common reader. Do I get much pleasure from this work? No. Do I feel I am getting something new and illuminating as I do when I read Anrep’s dreadful translation of Pavlov’s badly written book on Conditioned Reflexes? No. So I ask: Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering?"
on “Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)” ↗…typical common reader. Do I get much pleasure from this work? No. Do I feel I am getting something new and illuminating as I do when I read Anrep’s dreadful translation of Pavlov’s badly written book on Conditioned Reflexes? No. So I ask: Who the hell is this [einstein] who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering?"…
on “Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)” ↗…of the "reflex arc", a hardwired pathway between receptors and effector muscles. Pavlov later did a strange thing and widened the definition, which is the source of some confusion. Nowadays, Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes are mostly called Conditioned Responses, to avoid this exact confusion. NB: there are people arguing that conditioned is a mistranslation, and that it should mean conditional, which makes more sense in…
on “Never trust a system that seems to be working” ↗