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Weighing Reward and Punishment—Response

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Baron argues that infrequent punishments are more cost efficient than infrequent rewards. But our experiment does not represent a situation of intermittent rewarding. Instead, we have shown that contributions to the public good can be maintained by linking the public goods game to cooperative, wealth-producing pairwise interactions. Low contributors are denied cooperation in pairwise interactions, while high contributors are rewarded. Due to the ubiquity of such opportunities for targeted interaction, there is no need for costly peer punishment to enforce cooperation. Full cooperation in both the public and pairwise interactions leads to the best possible payoff. Thus, adding punishment cannot result in better outcomes.Read more at www.sciencemag.org
 

Weighing Reward and Punishment

The brain centers for reward and punishment and their influence on behavior are explored through a series of studies and debates.

See:
http://kmcolo.amplify.com/2009/12/20/podcast-science-4-september-2009/
Response to this letter:
http://kmcolo.amplify.com/2009/12/20/weighing-reward-and-punishment%E2%80%94response/

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n their Report “Positive interactions promote public cooperation” (4 September, p. 1272), D. G. Rand et al. find that targeted reward is at least as effective as targeted punishment in maintaining cooperation. In their experiment, infrequent reward may be sufficient because the group is small and interacts repeatedly. However, in real-world situations, punishment may be the more effective and cost-efficient option.

In real-world situations, when people are not interacting in a small group and when they are motivated by money, the threat of punishment is effective. Laws are based largely on this insight.

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Holonomic brain theory

Interesting little bit on holonomic brain theory.  I had no idea that Bohm got involved with brain science.  The theory seems to go against some of the current paradigm of functional mapping of the brain but I would say that consciousness and, arm movements let’s say, are two very different things.

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The holonomic brain theory, originated by psychologist Karl Pribram and initially developed in collaboration with physicist David Bohm, is a model for human cognition that is drastically different from conventionally accepted ideas: Pribram and Bohm posit a model of cognitive function as being guided by a matrix of neurological wave interference patterns situated temporally between holographic Gestalt perception and discrete, affective, quantum vectors derived from reward anticipation potentials.

In particular, the fact that information about an image point is distributed throughout the hologram, such that each piece of the hologram contains some information about the entire image, seemed suggestive to Pribram about how the brain could encode memories. (Pribram, 1987).Read more at en.wikipedia.org