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Basically, Pavlov's majestic scientific breakthrough was:
He taught dogs to drool.
Schoolchildren were told Pavlov rang a bell just before every meal and
then fed the dogs. Eventually, the dogs drooled in anticipation of meat
even when Pavlov didn't feed them but merely rang the bell. Stimulus
(the bell) produced response (the drool).
The educated class of the Western world breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, here was an explanation for ALL of life, for how life actually
operated: automatically. Specific stimuli caused the human brain to
trigger specific responses. No more philosophic
speculation was needed.
When philosophers and even some scientists objected to the Pavlovian
world view, a curious "innovation" ensued in philosophic circles: "Don't
take Pavlov---or any other scientific theory---literally. These are
just MODELS we use to aid analysis and make predictions."
That specious notion was introduced to shut the door on debate. For
example, you could no longer say:
"What? All human actions are merely automatic responses to stimuli?
That means freedom doesn't exist. What about, for instance, the
American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution, in order to
guarantee individual freedoms? That was meaningless?
There really is no such thing as freedom? All human actions are simply
reflexes? That's absurd..."
You couldn't make such an argument and gain a reasonable hearing in
academic and scientific circles anymore. You were told: "Don't be so
literal. The Pavlovian theory is an abstract model of behavior, and we
use it wherever we can. We don't invest belief
in the reality of it. It's just a 'formulation' that has some
relevance..."
Meanwhile, as philosophers were chewing on THAT ridiculous assertion,
scientists were getting very busy in labs studying the brain---based on
the premise that, yes, this wondrous organ was providing billions of
responses to external stimuli in the environment.
These researchers were taking Pavlov VERY seriously. They were aiming
at a future in which the entire operation of the brain could be
controlled by "societal planners" (technocrats).
The "it's-just-an-abstract-model" crowd was left to argue and produce an
academic background of confusion that would cover up the progress
researchers were making in their efforts to own the human brain.
Pavlov is alive and well. The deterministic no-freedom scientists sit
at the top of the research pyramid. They're convinced the brain---and
thus, all humans---are just biological/chemical machines. Freedom? A
delusion. Spirit? A fiction.
I keep writing about this subject, because this is the future elite
planners are preparing for the masses. The planners think it's a proper
and good future. Freedom is an illusion that causes too much trouble;
it needs to drop away into the ashcan of history.
Technocrats don't want to deal with The Individual, so they pretend he
doesn't exist. Give them large groups---that's their meat. That's what
makes them drool. They can take abstract generalizations, which they
love, and apply them over widespread populations,
to create a new civilization of stimulus-response, starting with the
brain.
Like many huge covert ops, this one is right out in the open, for anyone to see.
If they look.
Here is a brief fragment from a short story I wrote years ago. If you
can't accept the notion that this event might be happening in a
classroom today, imagine it happening next year, or five years or ten
years from now. A teacher is talking to his college
students:
"All right, class, make sure your headphones are fixed properly. For
the next five minutes, you'll be receiving inputs from a standard
program. You won't hear the inputs. You'll only hear soft music. No
information will be broadcast to you. This is just
preparation for today's lesson, which I will deliver in a few minutes.
The prep program broadcast through your headphones will focus your
brain so it can then receive maximum effect from my lesson. It will
place you in a receptive space. No effort on your
part is required. This is very smooth. There are no negative
consequences. The program you're about to experience is a stimulus.
Your brain will respond with adaptations of a biological and chemical
nature. This is a very sophisticated version of Pavlov's
original experiments."
Why not? It's so easy. Why bother objecting? If you do, you'll have
to see a special counselor and sign a number of documents and undergo a
transfer to a special unit for all your classes...
Here is the rest of the short-story fragment: "...After class, the
teacher and several students sit in the cafeteria. The teacher says:
'Imagine a primitive form of biofeedback. You're connected to a
machine. You think random thoughts. All of a sudden,
a tone sounds. That means you just stumbled across a vital FREQUENCY
of "brain-thought." You try to find it again. After a minute, you do,
and the tone rings again to let you know you're on the mark, and you're
thinking at an optimum level. You're thinking
at a high level of HARMONY, which of course is the goal of the
exercise. All thought should resolve in harmony. You're at One with
the universe. Now, some people might object, claiming that optimum
thought is different and unique and various and changing
for each person. But as science has shown, this is simply not true.
We all function in the same manner. What we seek is a single optimum
state of mind that applies to everyone, that produces the same
harmonious vibration. We keep searching and filtering
our thoughts until the tone rings. Then we know the thought that rang
the bell, that stimulus, produced the correct response, the ring tone.
The circle is complete. We have arrived. Do you see? It's all a
version of Pavlovian science. All humans connect
with each other when they are operating on the same peak frequency of
brain activity. Maintaining this harmonious relationship is what we are
striving for'."
Really? If you buy that analysis, I have condos for sale on the dark side of the moon.
Note: the many imagination exercises I developed and offer in my collection,
EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, give a person the opportunity to
invent his own thoughts over an unlimited range, without reference to
"frequency" or "vibration" or other irrelevant qualities. The
individual is, in fact, a prime and free artist of thought
and reality.
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