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...Imagine for a moment that psychophysiologists are ultimately as successful in fact as they are in their wildest dreams--that they are able to understand memory and behavior on the molecular level. This would mean that social relations could be reduced to an intricate but thoroughly comprehensive set of stimuli and responses. If, for example, Lyndon Johnson's neural chemistry was understood in detail, and if all his sources of influence and advice were monitored, it might have been possible to predict with fair accuracy that he would send Marines to Santo Domingo in response to the civil disorder there...
...long-lived, high-performance mercury batteries now being perfected for cardiac pacemakers (TIME, Jan. 11, 1960). Another possibility would be to install an electric coil inside the body and have it operated through induction by a power pack worn outside the heart. Either system would supply adequate electrical stimuli but only a smidgen of mechanical power...
...mistake of assuming that continuing gains at the recent rate are assured for the second half of the year." In the months ahead, Ackley feels, the automobile and steel industries cannot be counted on to supply further great gains. Any solid economic advances will then depend heavily on new stimuli, such as an excise tax cut and the scheduled hike of social security payments...
...criticism directed at classic Marxist economics. Lately Pravda and other Soviet publications have carried articles by economists branding the Soviet system "obsolete" and advocating a more or less free market system. Sergei Afanasyev, a deputy premier of one of the Soviet republics, fortnight ago came out for "material stimuli" as a necessary mainspring of the Russian economy. Lev Leontyev, an economist of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, from which initial opposition to Liberman's theories came, recently advocated the profit motive and payment of interest as "key instruments of economic control...
...James was the structural unit of mental life. The acquisition of a habit consisted of developing a new pathway of discharge in the brain. Even the most complex habits were viewed as merely a chain of discharges in the nerve centers--the result of a series of sensory stimuli and motor responses comprising a system of reflex paths...