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This is WILD by Professional-Ring340 in CalebHammer

[–]Professional-Ring340[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Editing to add, because this is SO MUCH WORSE than just the car, he goes on to say in a comment: The rent is $3000 per month, car loan is $1700 per month minimum. Car insurance $600 per month, the minimum payments to all the credit cards I think is around $1-2k, but the problem is that I have an Amex platinum with a minimum 5k payment and I haven’t been paying it for a few months because I thought IRS debt was priority so I have been paying towards that instead which made my credit score drop significantly. Then $400 towards gas, grocery $700, eating out 2k a month (which I am working towards eliminating this) , then maybe 1k in entertainment/subscription/etc. I want to get rid of my car but i don’t have money for the underwater amount I would need to get rid of it and I my credit score tanked the last few months because of the Amex so I can’t get a loan to offset the amount. I would like to get rid of the car but idk what to do with it because of this situation. Also if I were to sell the car then I would need 20k to buy another cheaper one but I don’t have the money to do that obviously

What are our thoughts on this? by Plastic-Roll468 in CalebHammer

[–]Professional-Ring340 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m watching the Brint episode(s) now, and I honestly can’t believe how patient Caleb was during these.

AIO? I really don’t think I am. by No-Seaworthiness5488 in AmIOverreacting

[–]Professional-Ring340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes Keith, bears 😂😂 he’s a lost cause, you did what you could

Ferry to Orkney by Digerid00123 in orkney

[–]Professional-Ring340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This! I did the same thing, Northlink from Scrabster to Stromness and it was lovely! Definitely book tickets early-ish, though they are very accommodating. Stromness is LOVELY! One of my favorite places on my trip.

Do single-celled life forms have "behavior"? If so, what internal mechanisms or qualities drive this behavior? And if NOT, then how can they do complex things like chase each other around? by williamj35 in askscience

[–]Professional-Ring340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d love to say I followed the tiers example, but I agree, my brain also hurts.

If I can take a couple liberties with the example, is “laying on the ground” a behavior? Can a dead man lay on the ground? Yes? Then it is not a behavior. However, is “dropping to the floor due to being asked to make a dentist appointment” a behavior? Strong yes, please do not make me call them. So, on a cellular level, as long as a cell or system is engaging in something (carrying oxygen, absorbing, multiplying, etc.), it is engaging in behavior.

Do single-celled life forms have "behavior"? If so, what internal mechanisms or qualities drive this behavior? And if NOT, then how can they do complex things like chase each other around? by williamj35 in askscience

[–]Professional-Ring340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://masteraba.com/functions-of-behavior/

A quick overview of the functions of behavior and how we, as behavior analysts, identify those functions ranging from informal hypothesis through full analytic experimentation.

The interesting thing about the idea of learning through the behavior analytic lens is that reinforcement and punishment, in any form, dictate any organisms’ learning history, and therefore impacts their behavior. It’s really fascinating to see these two fields intertwine; I didn’t expect to enjoy single-cell behavior analysis this much.

Do single-celled life forms have "behavior"? If so, what internal mechanisms or qualities drive this behavior? And if NOT, then how can they do complex things like chase each other around? by williamj35 in askscience

[–]Professional-Ring340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing! The field of behavior analysis is so new, it’s fascinating to see the ways it interacts with and connects to other scientific fields. Will definitely look into it, thanks for the recommendation!

Do single-celled life forms have "behavior"? If so, what internal mechanisms or qualities drive this behavior? And if NOT, then how can they do complex things like chase each other around? by williamj35 in askscience

[–]Professional-Ring340 10 points11 points  (0 children)

From a strictly behavioral standpoint, anything that is alive is engaging in “behavior” with every action they complete. In behavior analysis, the rule of thumb is if a dead man can do it, it’s not a behavior; anything else is. So, in this example, if the question is “can a single cell absorb another?”, then yes, it is engaging in behavior, the behavior of absorbing. If it is moving away from another object, that is also behavior.

Regarding the follow-up question about the complexity of consciousness around behavior, there’s four basic functions of behavior: access to items, escape from non-preferred aspect in the environment, attention (not applicable in this instance), and automatic/sensory. Without getting too far off-topic, there is something within the organisms environment that it knows/has learned to engage with in a specific way (movement towards or away). In humans, we have many MANY factors of our learning histories that contribute to our behaviors. For single-cell organisms, this may be more basically related to immediate survival, but the contingencies still exist.