Pavlov talks about making a dog insane. I'd like to shake the paw of a dog the techniques contained in his book would make insane. These learned experiments by which we reduce a circle to a square and reduce a square to a circle while ringing gongs and dah-dah bells and feeding the dog and beating the dog–oh, bah. I had a malamute once, he was a tough dog. The only way he could accept an acknowledgment was if you took a stick of firewood and hit him between the ears. My mother, who is a … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (3) (1956)
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Lecture: Symbols and Group Processing Demo (1) (1954)
I used to write western stories many, many years ago and my name was W. R. Colt. You will still find me in the library. And the funny part of it was, was all the time I was writing western stories, I was really interested in yachting. I never had anything much to do with the west and, and as a matter of fact, tried not to close terminals with it because of my early boyhood misadventures with mustangs, which I do not consider very romantic. They are very bad transportation but they work if you … [Read more...] about Lecture: Symbols and Group Processing Demo (1) (1954)