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doing that. I'm trying -- I'm going to try to give an historical, philosophical context for the inevitability of increased precision in behavior modification, and the fact that it's going to happen.

Now, of course I'm going to talk about safeguards. We are going to need safeguards.

People keep saying to me, “But it can be abused.”

Any damn thing can be abused. I mean, medicine can be abused. There isn't any creation of the human mind that cannot be perverted.

Q:

And of course, here you're also talking about monitoring for undesirable side effedts.

Clark:

Oh, sure.

Q:

And some of these, with other chemicals, are highly individualistic -- one person may have it, another person, it works fine --

Clark:

-- true. True, except that the research would have to include all of that, you know. I mean, for example, Delgado's research on specific areas of the brain that control feelings of various sorts, that would have to be developed with even greater precision. Isolation of specific chemical -- well, one of the assumptions would have to be that the chemical reactions of the various parts of the brain that seem to be related to different kinds of activities and feelings or sensitivities would be different. I mean, they'd have to be different in order to have the different manifestations. That would have to be determined and isolated, and the reduction





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