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of individual differences to a bare minimum would be one of the objectives.

Q:

Now, another layman question -- where does this put, what we hear so much about now, biofeedback?

Clark:

I don't see that it's in conflict. It's interesting that the night I gave that talk, I think it was Miller from Rockefeller University gave a presentation the same evening on biofeedback, in terms of control of blood pressure, and I thought it was quite compatible with what I was saying. There could be reinforcements.

By the way, I take blood pressure pills.

Sure, I am not saying, either-or. I am saying that the need for increasing precision, accelerating research in order to obtain these objectives is imperative.

Sure, if we can get a drug that just increases the sensitivity of individuals to external moral, you how, sensitizing, fine; and that could work with such effectiveness that the chemical intervention could be removed, after the organism becomes totally geared toward that kind of activity. Fine. You know, I'm not saying that people should become dependent on anything. I'm saying that I thin we should see that we don't have too great a range of variation in behavior.

Q:

This is a personalized observation, which I'm putting forth as a final question. I have found in recent years, if I get hostile toward a person, usually somebody I've been working with





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