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According to Walther (1999), although von Uexküll’s ideas strongly influenced Lorenz, he rarely credited von Uexküll’s work. This neglect was probably due to von Uexküll’s open and profoundly anti-Darwinian standpoint, which was contrary to the opinion of Lorenz, who was personally a great admirer of Darwin’s evolutionary theory (Walther, 1999). Probably also as a result of his anti-Darwinian stance, von Uexküll’s work became less known during his lifetime, though he was not against evolutionary explanations as such 4 .
Everything we have been in the habit of calling an ‘instinct’ today is largely the result of training … [Think] of each unlearned act as becoming conditioned shortly after birth. – even our respiration and circulation (Watson, 1930, quoted in Gould & Gould, 1999, p. 48). Hence, behaviorists claimed, contrary to the views of Darwin and James, that instincts actually do not exist. , 1997). , 1997). In addition, the proponents of behaviorism reinterpreted Darwin’s work, but they over-stressed his idea of the mental continuum of species, which resulted in some misleading conclusions.
As a consequence, he believed that phenomena that could not be formalized explicitly, for example, bodily skills and feelings, could not count as knowledge. He therefore made a distinction between the rational mind and the body with its emotions and skills. He admitted that there is some kind of connection between the two of them, but he never explained how it worked. This was the starting point of the Western philosophical tradition, assuming that reckoning is the ‘language of the mind’ (Dreyfus, 1972/1979).
