Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cause (self-determined) over one's environment. You see, the human mind has two parts, each with their respective memory banks: the analytical mind and the reactive mind. The former is rational (in fact, Hubbard compares it to a perfect computer); the latter is subconscious, operating solely on a stimulus-response basis. It records engrams, or painful memories, which are subject to constant re-stimulation. These engross carry an electrical charge, which is removed by the auditing process. An essential fixture of auditing is the E-meter, a crude form of lie detector with two tin cans, attached by wires...
...adult world, to win is everything, but children's games satisfy different requirements. The participants "seldom need an umpire," write the authors. "They rarely trouble to keep scores, little significance is attached to who wins or loses, they do not require the stimulus of prizes, it does not seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Indeed, children like games in which there is a sizable element of luck, so that individual abilities cannot be directly compared. They like games which restart almost automatically, so that everybody is given a new chance. They like games which move...