The last six weeks I've been studying learning and memory in humans as part of my curricula for my psychology degree. In one of the chapters on condit...moreThe last six weeks I've been studying learning and memory in humans as part of my curricula for my psychology degree. In one of the chapters on conditioning the author brings up the conditioning done in A Brave New World in which babies are shown books and roses. Just as the babies are showing awareness and interest in the beauty of the roses and in the pictures in the books they receive a series of electrical shocks from the floor. They'll be continued to shock until just the sight of a book will make them upset. The point being, these people were being conditioning to not think, to not have ideas.
Anyway, I found a text version online to read and read it quickly last week. It was a very interesting story. There is no individuality at all. Everyone is connected to each other, kind of like the Borg from Star Trek.
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