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Basic freedom as an intrinsic (instinctual) avoidance behavior with respect to aversive stimuli, at its lowest level embodied in reflexes at a higher level by operant conditioning. | Basic freedom as an intrinsic (instinctual) avoidance behavior with respect to aversive stimuli, at its lowest level embodied in reflexes at a higher level by operant conditioning. | ||
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Man's struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be free, but to certain behavioral processes characteristic of the | |||
human orrganism, the chief effect of which is the avoidance of or escape from so-called "aversive" features of the environment. | |||
Physical and biological technologies have been mainly concerned with natural aversive stimuli; the struggle for freedom is | |||
concerned with the stimuli intentionally arranged by other people. the literature of freedom has identified the other people | |||
and has proposed way of escaping from them or weakening or destroying thier power. It has been successful in reducing the aversive | |||
stimuli used intensional control, but it has made the mistake of defining freedom in terms of states of mind or feelings, and it has | |||
therefore not been able to deal effectively with the techniques of control which do ont breed escape or revolt but nevertheless have | |||
aversive consequences. It has been forced to brand all control as wrong and to misrepresent many of the advantages to be gained from | |||
a social environment. It is unprepared for the next step, shich is not to free men from control but to analyze and change the kinds | |||
of control to which they are exposed. | |||
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=== Dignity === | === Dignity === | ||
