All you need to run the world is...a bell!

Debate taking place at...

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?s=&postid=407188#post407188

//Where Capitalism has been most successful--and where Communim failed
by causing millions of deaths by collectivization or simply
inproductivity--is at keeping the worker salivating over material
stuff, just like the Pavlov's experiment with the dogs when they
responded to the bell--advertising. It's like America sells you a
"dream," never a reality, which may turn out to be a nightmare. The
other day I went by one of those shelters for the homeless--which are
run by "charities"--and it was a scene fitting of Dante's, with the
homeless overflowing the facilities. However the sign outside ran:
'"Hope" for all'...//

This is what I said before, and here's what going on with mind
conditioning.

It may turn out that all you need to run the world is...a bell!

'Does your mouth water when you hear the sound of the ice cream man
coming down your street? If so, then you have been conditioned to
salivate at the sound. In the early 1900s, Ivan Pavlov studied this
conditioned response when he trained dogs to salivate at the sound of
a bell. Pavlov knew that dogs naturally salivated when meat was fed to
them. To condition this salivation, Pavlov rang a bell each time he
presented the food to the dogs. After the ringing bell was paired many
times with the presentation of the meat, the dogs salivated when they
heard the bell, but BEFORE they saw the food. In other words, the dogs
had become conditioned because they expected that the meat reward
would follow the sound of the bell.

Humans can become conditioned in much the same way as Pavlov's dogs.
In a recent two-part experiment, scientists, using brain imaging
methods, have learned which parts of the brain are active when people
associate visual images with food smells. *This research also suggests
that if Pavlov's dogs had been allowed to eat all the meat they
wanted, then the conditioned response would have disappeared*.' [Could
it be the reason why the lion keeps the little animals always thirsty
while controlling the water well?]

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http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/train.html

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