>> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational,
>> brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his
>> own interests are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in
>> the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of
>> him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of
>> the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." - stan
>
> From one extreme to the other, with no middle ground, like an
> adaptable creature, ready to be accented for war, peace or all points
> inbetween.
>
> Conditioning - An Experiment: You may be getting annoyed at how
> Skinner could deny something that is so obvious to you—that you are
> free and in control of your actions. But before you make up your mind,
> try this experiment in conditioning. Your teacher is your subject.
>
> According to Skinner's theory, our behavior is determined by what is
> in our environment and whether that makes us feel pleasure. Our
> behavior is further shaped by the consequences that follow our
> actions. If we perform an action and then something we like happens
> (positive reinforcement), we will repeat what we've done. If we
> perform an action and then something we do not like happens (negative
> reinforcement), we won't repeat what we've done.
>
> To see how this works, you might try to condition one of your
> instructors to act in a certain way, without him or her knowing it.
> Here's what you do. First, explain what you're doing to as many people
> in the class as you can. Second, pick the behavior that you want to
> reinforce—walking back and forth, standing in a particular spot,
> gesturing to the class with a piece of chalk, or whatever. The object
> of the game is to administer positive reinforcement every time your
> instructor performs the behavior you have chosen. Look interested, nod
> your head, ask questions, take notes. When he or she stops the
> behavior, go to negative reinforcement. Look bored, act confused,
> shuffle your feet, look at your watch, stare out the window. When your
> teacher goes back to the chosen behavior, respond positively again.
> After a while, you should find your teacher doing the behavior you
> selected most of the time. (One class took "being near the radiator"
> as the behavior they wanted to reinforce. By the end of the semester,
> their instructor was so well conditioned that he simply sat on the
> radiator throughout each class.)
>
> If you do this right, and have not been too obvious about it, you will
> see that you have controlled someone's behavior without that person's
> knowledge. You will have conditioned your instructor to act in a
> certain way because she or he wants the positive feeling that comes
> with the interest you show.
>
> Discovering philosophy / Thomas I. White. --Brief
ed.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0135080037/
>
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>
> In the 1890s, Pavlov was investigating the gastric function of dogs by
> externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure and
> analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different
> conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food
> coated with chili powder was actually delivered to their mouths, and
> set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it. He
> decided that this was more interesting than the chemistry of saliva,
> and changed the focus of his research, carrying out a long series of
> experiments in which he manipulated the stimuli occurring before the
> presentation of food. He thereby established the basic laws for the
> establishment and extinction of what he called "conditional reflexes"
> — i.e., reflex responses, like salivation, that only occurred
> conditionally upon specific previous experiences of the animal.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlovhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_c...
>
> ...Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud
> Kicking the stall all night
> Sometimes I'm so shy, got to be worked on
> Don't have no [bark or bite]
>
> Yeah when you call my name
> I [salivate] like a [Pavlov dog]
> Yeah when you lay me out
> My heart starts beating like a big bass drum
>
>
http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=140
> Rolling Stone -
Bitchhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=euOrnZZkzKg
>
>> HTH.
>
> Did you know?
>
> 'Clockwork Orange' is the name of the secret British security services
> project which was alleged to have involved a right-wing smear campaign
> against British politicians in the 1970s.
>
> The project was undertaken by members of the British intelligence
> services and the British Army press office in Northern Ireland, whose
> job also included routine public relations work and placing
> disinformation stories in the press, as part of a psychological
> warfare operation against paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork_Orange_%%28plot%%29
>
> The text you copied left out one of the best parts;
>
> Anthony Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an alleged old
> Cockney expression "as queer as a clockwork orange". Due to his time
> serving in the British Colonial Office in Malaysia, Burgess thought
> that the phrase could be used punningly to refer to a mechanically
> responsive (clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "man").
>
> Burgess wrote in his later (Nov. 1986) introduction, titled A
> Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good
> or evil is "a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of
> an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a
> clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty
> state."
>
> In his essay "Clockwork Oranges"², Burgess asserts that "this title
> would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian,
> or mechanical, laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of
> colour and sweetness". This title alludes to the protagonist's
> positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the
> exercise of his free will.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orangehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=mUaAjE...
