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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.


<blockquite>Man's struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be free, but to certain behavioral processes characteristic of the
<blockquote>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.
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
Physical and biological technologies have been mainly concerned with natural aversive stimuli; the struggle for freedom is

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