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A general progression of Skinnerian habit-formation (some overlap with Buddhism, possibly?)

Biological Variation (individual-organismal-differences)
+ environmental reinforcement (friends, family, upbringing, etc)
+ contextual stimuli (the same stimuli can occur in infinitely many contexts)
+ motivational states (the particular “mood” in which stimuli are encountered)

habit formation (gati?)

But Gati appears itself to always simply be a product of “some-prior-behavior” – does that mean that all habits or even likings or dislikings are themselves arbitrary? That would explain why it’s possible for Gati to change for the better or for the worse, I think (rather than being “locked in” or “hard-coded” so to speak into the individual).

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