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Old 03-16-2011, 08:20 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
There is a great quote from B.F. Skinner....
"The picture that emerges from science is not that of a body with a person inside, but of a body which IS a person, in that it displays a complex repertoire of behavior."

It's a great quote, but for all I know, the author of that small tract may have pulled it out of his hat. Skinner may not have said it at all.
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Originally Posted by wyndslash View Post
i think that quote was from his other book Beyond Freedom and Dignity,....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Freedom_and_Dignity

People are bodies

The picture which emerges from a scientific analysis is not of a body with a person inside, but of a body which is a person in the sense that it displays a complex repertoire of behavior. . . . What is being abolished is autonomous man — the inner man, the homunculus, the possessing demon, the man defended by the literatures of freedom and dignity. His abolition has long been overdue. . . . Science does not dehumanize man, it de-homunculizes him.[22]
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