Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Pavlov argues that controlling human behavior will be possible when scientists view the mind as an external object.
- In plain terms
- We can control people if we study the mind from the outside like an object.
- What can you take from it?
- Viewing the mind objectively may allow for control over behavior.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can the mind be studied without bias?
- What does it mean to be controlled?
Another view
Controlling human behavior is ethically fraught and often harmful.
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The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?
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