Even punishment is at least reinforcement and tends, despite temporary deterrence, to strengthen the trait or behavior being punished. All complex systems, living or otherwise, not just animals and humans, in a changing world have to be susceptible to the Law of Effect in order to survive. By definition, this law of behavior has thus become also a law of physics. By the Law of Effect, you in so doing reinforce not only those particular perceptions but also the behavior of being perceptive. Mainly to cause someone to examine his or her own awarenesses and to attempt to respond from what is discovered in those awarenesses.
New forms center on that examination of and reporting from awarenesses.
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