DELGADO & SKINNER

DELGADO

In the past the individual could face risks and pressures with preservation of his own identity. His body could be tortured, his thoughts and desires could be challenged by bribes, by emotions, and by public opinion, and his behavior could be influenced by environmental circumstances, but he allways had the privilige of deciding his own fate, of dying for an ideal without changing his mind...New neurological technology, however, has a refined efficiency. The individual isdefenseless against dicrect manipulation of the brain... Jose Delgado,1969, neurophysiologist at the Yale University [Direttore della Clinica Neuropsichiatrica dell'Università di Yale]) [In passato gli individui potevano affrontare rischi e pressioni conservando lo stesso la loro identità. Il corpo poteva venir torturato, i pensieri e desideri modificati da corruttori, da emozioni e dall'adesione all'opinione pubblica, mentre il comportamento poteva venir influenzato dalle circostanze ambientali.: ma sempre avrebbe avuto il privilegio di decidere il proprio destino , di morire per un ideale senza cambiare la propria mente... Le nuove tecnologie neurologiche ora posseggono una efficenza più raffinata. L'individuo è senza difese contro manipolazioni dirette del suo cervello..."] We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society.  The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ["Abbiamo bisogno di un programma di neurochirurgia e di un controllo politico della nostra società: suo scopo  è il controllo fisico della mente. Si deve poter mutilare chirugicamente chiunque devia dalla regola data. "] The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. ["L’individuo può pensare che la realtà più importante è la sua propria esistenza, ma questo è soltanto il suo punto di vista personale: vi manca la prospettiva storica.] Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain. [L’uomo non ha il diritto di sviluppare la sua propria mente. Questo tipo di orientamento "liberal" è di grande  attrattiva. Noi [invece] dobbiamo controllare il cervello elettricamente. Verrà il giorno quando armate e generali saranno controllati da stimolazioni elettriche del cervello.] Dr. José Delgado Congression Record No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974 (MKULTRA experimenter who demonstrated a radio-controlled bull on CNN in 1985) Director of Neuropsichiatry Yale University Medical School MKULTRA experimenter who demonstrated a radio-controlled bull on CNN in 1985. Look carefully at this very well-organized, extensive file: Brain Implants Jose Delgado's scientific writing: Behavioral Neurochemistry: Proceedings by Jose Manuel Rodrigue Delgado, F. V. Defeudis  La felicidad, 1999, (!!!) by Jose Delgado Director of Neuropsichiatry Yale University Medical School

José Manuel Delgado

gli impartì - come egli stesso afferma - un’educazione che ora cerco di impartire ai miei figli.

In The Physical control... (vedi image della copertina della traduzione in italiano) Il progetto fu realizzato nell’isola di Hall nelle Bermude e consisteva nello stimolare il cervello di molte scimmie selvatiche. Queste scimmie furono "controllate" in tutti i loro movimenti  e “teledirette” per mezzo di “impianti cerebrali”che registravano e spedivano a un computer  informazioni riguardanti il loro cervello. Scrisse altri libri, tutti riguardanti il cervello , in cui spiegava  in modo volutamente sommario i suoi nuovi progetti di ricerca sempre ammantati di un aspetto spirituale e abbelliti come fossero indirizzati alla "ricerca della felicità" - La felicidad, 1999  Vedi intervista di Bärtås and Ekman - Psychocivilization and its discontents (Issue 2 Spring 2001 ©2002 Cabinet Magazine)

THE CONTROLLERS:

The stimoceiver is a miniature depth electrode which can receive and transmit electronic signals over FM radio waves. By stimulating a correctly-positioned stimoceiver, an outside operator can wield a surprising degree of control over the subject's responses. Mystery still shrouds another area of study, the area which seems to have most interested ORD: psychoelectronics. This research may prove key to our understanding of the UFO abduction phenomenon. Perhaps the most interesting pieces of evidence surrounding the abduction phenomenon are the intracerebral implants allegedly visible in the X-rays and MRI scans of many abductees [23]. Indeed, abductees often describe operations in which needles are inserted into the brain; more frequently still, they report implantation of foreign objects through the sinus cavities. Many abduction specialists assume that these intracranial incursions must be the handiwork of scientists from the stars. Unfortunately, these researchers have failed to familiarize themselves with certain little-heralded advances in terrestrial technology. The abductees' implants strongly suggest a technological lineage which can be traced to a device known as a stimoceiver, invented in the late '50s - early '60s by a neuroscientist named Jose Delgado. The stimoceiver is a miniature depth electrode which can receive and transmit electronic signals over FM radio waves. By stimulating a correctly-positioned stimoceiver, an outside operator can wield a surprising degree of control over the subject's responses. The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred in a Madrid bull ring. Delgado "wired" the bull before stepping into the ring, entirely unprotected. Furious for gore, the bull charged toward the doctor -- then stopped, just before reaching him. The technician-turned- toreador had halted the animal by simply pushing a button on a black box, held in the hand [24]. Delgado's Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society [25] remains the sole, full-length, popularly-written work on intracerebral implants and electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB). (The book's ominous title and unconvincing philosophical rationales for mass mind control prompted an unfavorable public reaction -- which may have deterred other researchers from publishing on this theme for a general audience.) While subsequent work has long since superseded the techniques described in this book, Delgado's achievements were seminal. His animal and human experiments clearly demonstrate that the experimenter can electronically induce emotions and behavior: Under certain conditions, the extremes of temperament -- rage, lust, fatigue, etc. -- can be elicited by an outside operator as easily as an organist might call forth a C-major chord. 

Radio stimulation of different points in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effects, including pleasant sensations, elation, deep, thoughtful concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation, colored visions, and other responses. [26] The evocative phrase colored vision clearly indicates remotely-induced hallucination; we will detail later how these hallucinations may be "controlled" by an outside operator. 

support the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion, and behavior can be directed by electrical forces and that humans can be controlled like robots by push buttons.[27]
He even prophesied a day when brain control could be turned over to non-human operators, by establishing two-way radio communication between the implanted brain and a computer [28]. 
Of one experimental subject, Delgado notes that the patient expressed the successive sensations of fainting, fright and floating around. These 'floating' feelings were repeatedly evoked on different days by stimulation of the same point... [29] 
Ufologists may recognize the similarity of this sequence of events to abductee reports of the opening minutes of their experiences [30].
Under subsequent hypnosis, the abductee could be instructed to mis-remember the cause of this floating sensation. In a fascinating series of experiments, Delgado attached the stimoceiver to the tympanic membrane, thereby transforming the ear into a sort of microphone. An assistant would whisper How are you? into the ear of a suitably "fixed" cat, and Delgado could hear the words over a loudspeaker in the next room. The application of this technology to the spy trade should be readily apparent. According to Victor Marchetti, The Agency once attempted a highly sophisticated extension of this basic idea, in which radio implants were attached to a cat's cochlea, to facilitate the pinpointing of specific conversations, freed from extraneous surrounding noises [31].
Such "advances" exacerbate the already-imposing level of Twentieth-Century paranoia: Not only can our phones be tapped and mail checked, but even TABBY may be spying on us! Yet the ramifications of this technology may go even deeper than Marchetti indicates. I presume that if a suitably-wired subject's inner ear can be made into a microphone, it can also be made into a loudspeaker -- one possible explanation for the "voices" heard by abductees [32].
Indeed, I have personally viewed a strange, opalescent implant within the ear canal of an abductee. I see no reason to ascribe this device to alien intrusion -- more than likely, the "intruders" in this case were the technological inheritors of the Delgado legacy. Indeed, not many years after Delgado's experiments with the cat, Ralph Schwitzgebel devised a "bug-in-the-ear" via which the therapist -- odd term, under the circumstances -- can communicate with his subject  [33].
Other researchers have made notable contributions to this field. Robert  G. Heath, of Tulane University, who has implanted as many as 125 electrodes in his subjects, achieved his greatest notoriety by attempting to "cure" homosexuality through ESB. In his experiments, he discovered that he could control his patients' memory, (a feat which, applied in the ufological context, may account for the phenomenon of "missing time"); he could also induce sexual arousal, fear, pleasure, and hallucinations[34].

Rapimenti e impianti Alieni

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Estimulacion electrica cerebral en toros (J. Delgado 1964) Video histórico en el que José Delgado (1964 torea a un toro con un electrodo cerebral implantado gestionado mediante control remoto

DYLAN DOG

 IL PROGETTO (l'indagine dell'incubo)
N.176  maggio 2001

Lobotomia

Donald Ewen Cameron (1901-1967) was a Scottish-American psychiatrist. Born in Bridge of Allan, he graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. Cameron lived and worked in Albany, New York, and was involved in experiments in Canada for Project MKULTRA, a United StatesCIA-directed mind control program. Cameron was the author of the psychic driving concept which the CIA found particularly interesting.
based

• In the Sleep Room: The Story of CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada, Anne Collins, Lester & Orpen Dennys (Toronto), 1988.
• Father, Son and the CIA, Harvey Weinstein, Goodread Biographies, 1990.
• Brainwash, Dominic Streatfeild, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
• he Wall Street Journal
  
  HARSH TREATMENT In China, Brain Surgery  Is Pushed on the Mentally Ill
  Irreversible Procedures Rarely Done Elsewhere

Eugenics and Lobotomy! "Savant": hopeless case who should institutionalised? or: Love with knowledge?

Comportamentismo / Behaviorism

Brani dello stesso autore

• Che cosa puo' studiare scientificamente la psicologia?
• Un'esperimento sul comportamento
• L'illusione del libero arbitrio

Behaviorism

[John Broadus (J.B.) Watson (1878-1958)] at Johns Hopkins University  took philosophy with Dewey, Moore, James Hayden Tufts (1862-1942), and Edward Scribner Ames (1870-1958). He worked under Angell in experimental psychology and he was spent many a pleasant Sunday in the laboratory with George Herbert Mead watching the behavior of rats and monkeys. [4] At Angell's suggestion, Watson chose neurology under Henry Herbert Donaldson (1857-1938) as one of his two minor fields. It was in this context that he met Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), a biologist who not only made a number of independent contributions to objective psychology but also was exerted a critical influence on the direction of Watson's nascent objectivism. [5] was doing the same thing to humans. Watson, the founder of what is known as the behaviorist school of psychology, believed the main significance of [his] studies lay not in the bare fact that people and dogs could both be conditioned to salivate to or withdraw their toes from inherently neutral stimuli, but in their implications for further and broader conditioning experiments. … In particular, he suggested …that

Watson says,

In the heat of the nature-nurture controversy - October 2002 - Watson expounde the battle cry of the radical militant behaviorist movement:

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my own specific world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even into a beggar-man and thief  regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors [JB Watson, What the nursery has to say about instincts, in Carl Murchison, ed., Psychologies of 1925 (Worcester, MA: Clark University Press, 1926), p. 10].

Furthermore is appropriate to remember here that unwelcome attention and psuedo-altruisticAnna Magnani's playing of the "stage-mother" in Visconti's film Allow me MY time magnificently caricatures the desire to ensure celebrity and success for one's children but also to a lesser extent explores the devastating pressure of the adult world which disturbs the solemn regularity of childhood: superstitious myths of pseudo-health are imposed by the body of current thinking which make any normal differences in motor development a source of anxiety - arriving at the point of a horrible paradox such as the acceptance of a greater risk of DEATH(!) in order to "avoid" a hypothetical and albeit slight slowing in the first phases of motor development - how far from the extreme contrary of it: Emmi Pikler's work whose main book German title is Lasst mir Zeit =Allow me MY time - being the "proclaim" of her fundamental experience. interference take place as real superstition and seemingly innocuous "taming" to interfere with self-expression, if not liberty; as with feeding and any other basic element of interraction between the generations, it can also occur in fields which should be less subjective, turning "normal" parents into indirect slave-drivers. An - horrible - sample of fake scientific mentality - behaviorism - thinking that airway protective behaviors may be acquired through the mechanism of operant conditioning (learning)? Or furthermore such "scientists" as do prefer higher-quality prformances instead to ... at least living and healthy children and opportune development? In opposition to what stated already from the German title of Emmi Pikler's main book Lasst mir ZeitAllow me MY time - they do prefer and teach a gross motor development (Denver Development Scale), even preferring to have more babies died - as happens during the times when it was mandatory to put babies sleeping face down. What to think on regard of who affirm that new born have to learn till birth for 'advancing' in a grosser motor development? What strange 'scientists' are these who assert without any shame that protective behaviors have to be learnt through the mechanism of operant conditioning (learning) ??? =

SKINNERs

Agenti segreti, spie, informatori, assassini... "costruiti" per mezzo del lavaggio del cervello funzionano meglio dei consapevoli, stipendiati agenti segreti /spie.... ?  / Why are mind-controlled agents, spies, couriers, assassins, better than conscious, salaried agents/spies?

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To can choose...: experimental aversion therapy ???

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess - original book and derived movie by Stanley Kubrik:
Anthony Burgess, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, makes the lesson plain:
Alex is not only deprived of the capacity to choose to commit evil. A lover of music, he has responded to the music, used as a heightener of emotion, which has accompanied the violent films he has been made to see. A chemical substance injected into his blood induces nausea while he is watching the films, but the nausea is also associated with the music. It was not the intention of his State manipulators to induce this bonus or malus: it is purely an accident that, from now on, he will automatically react to Mozart or Beethoven as he will to rape or murder. The State has succeeded in its primary aim: to deny Alex free moral choice, which, to the State, means choice of evil. But it has added an unforseen punishment: the gates of heaven are closed to the boy, since music is a figure of celestial bliss. The State has committed a double sin: it has destroyed a human being, since humanity is defined by freedom of moral choice; it has also destroyed an angel.

The novel has not been well understood. Readers, and viewers of the film made from the book, have assumed that I, a most unviolent man, am in love with violence. I am not, but I am committed to freedom of choice, which means that if I cannot choose to do evil nor can I choose to do good. It is better to have our streets infested with murderous young hoodlums than to deny individual freedom of choice. This is a hard thing to say, but the saying of it was imposed on me by the moral tradition which, as a member of western civilization, I inherit. Whatever the conditions needful for the sustention of society, the basic human endowment must not be denied. The evil, or merely wrong, products of free will may be punished or held off with deterrents, but the faculty itself may not be removed. The unintended destruction of Alex’s capacity for enjoying music symbolizes the State’s imperfect understanding (or volitional ignorance) of the whole nature of man, and of the consequences of its own decisions. We may not be able to trust man – meaning ourselves – very far, but we must trust the State far less.

Poter scegliere... Sul condizionamento coatto del comportamento e sulle sue non ideali conseguenze è famosissimo un altro film, derivato da un ancora migliore - anche se meno famoso - libro: Clockwork orange / Arancia meccanica di S.Kubrick è il film - che si trova anche in DVD. Con gli stessi titoli Clockwork orange / Arancia meccanica è il libro di Anthony BURGESS (con un'azzecatissima traduzione in italiano di Floriana Bossi): Arancia meccanica è la storia di Alex, teppista sempre pronto a usare il coltello, capo di una banda di "duri" con i quali ripete ogni sera, sui marciapiedi dei sobborghi, il gioco della violenza. "Il mio eroe, o antieroe, Alex - ha scritto Anthony Burgess - è veramente malvagio, a un livello forse inconcepibile, ma la sua cattiveria non è il prodotto di un condizionamento teorico o sociale - è una sua impresa personale in cui si è imbarcato in piena lucidità. La mia parabola, e quella di Kubrick, vogliono affermare che è preferibile un mondo di violenza assunta scientemente a un mondo programmato per essere buono od inoffensivo... Arancia meccanica doveva essere una sorta di manifesto sull'importanza di poter scegliere.

L'argomento a favore della terapia del comportamento operante è essenzialmente questo: quelli che vengono sentiti come sentimenti, o introspettivamente osservati come stati mentali, sono stati corporei, ed essi sono i prodotti di certe contingenze di rinforzo. Le contingenze ambientali possono essere molto più facilmente identificate e analizzate di quanto non lo siano i sentimenti o statimentali. E il comportamentismo si propone di cambiare le contingenze anziché questi ultimi. Alla psicologia umanistica, alla psicoanalisi e al cognitivismo Skinner non risparmia critiche pesanti e spesso pregiudiziali. Il comportamentismo sarebbe sempre stato osteggiato perché si tratterebbe dell'unico metodo di intervento realmente efficace. Qua e là si allude a scenari che paiono francamente orwelliani (G.Orwell 1984), ma che Skinner ci descrive con appassionato e trionfalistico ottimismo. Il controllo - egli sostiene - è etico se è esercitato per il bene del controllato. L'esposizione è chiara e rivela una notevole lucidità di mente, nonché una fede illimitata nelle teorie esposte, senza il beneficio del dubbio.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my own specific world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even into a beggar-man and thief  regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors [JB Watson, What the nursery has to say about instincts, in Carl Murchison, ed., Psychologies of 1925 (Worcester, MA: Clark University Press, 1926), p. 10].

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