| The following books examine
and find serious fault with the theories and practices of behavioral psychology.
Behaviorism asserts that Man is nothing more than a biological machine,
devoid of consciousness, mind, cause, self-determinism, or personal responsibility.
It is a direct outgrowth of Darwin's theory of evolution where everything
that occurs is viewed only from the angle of what external events
exist and how these environmental factors cause things to react and situations
to occur.
It ignores completely what it is that
responds or reacts to the environment (i.e. you, your mind, thought).
Behaviorism is rooted in the notion that since a mind cannot be observed
by an objective scientist, thus it should not be the concern of any "legitimate
science". This is absurd because we all know very well we have consciousness,
a mind, thought, attention, imagination, self-determinism, and responsibility.
It is a severe fault of this "modern science" that it ignores 1) all that
makes Man what he truly is, and 2) what distinguishes Man from the rest
of the animal kingdom and the entire physical universe of matter and energy.
No "thing" anywhere has consciousness or does what a mind does - yet much
of modern psychology completely discards the notion and importance of the
human mind.
Behaviorism is renowned for conducting experiments
on rats and chickens - getting them to dance in circles, or eat and salivate
upon command. The results of these overly simplistic experiments are then
freely extrapolated and applied to human beings, who are completely
different entities entirely, yet the behavioral psychologist has no
trouble making this absurd leap. If the goal is to also make people dance
in circles, then possibly they are on the right track.
Read a few of their books with this in mind
to understand the absurdity of their approach.
To discover about behaviorism online see
the SNTP Behaviorism
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