December 30, 2014

December 30, 2014

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader, 

Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) can be done alone, while writing or while talking out loud or it can be done together, while speaking or writing to others. The absence of others creates a contrast which is appreciated by this writer. There is no inner self that does the talking, only a body whose structure was changed over time by respondent and operant conditioning, by antecedent and postcedent stimuli, due to which this writing, reading, speaking and listening to these words became possible. 

This writer lives with and doesn't complain about the scientific fact that there is no self. For many years he was involved in a spiritual search for what he believed to be ‘his true self’, but once he became familiar with behaviorism, the goal he had been pursuing became irrelevant. This plain scientific behavioral perspective is more definitive than any guru could have ever told him. It demolished the nonsense everybody lives by and it brought everything back to how we behave verbally.  A new perspective is now unfolding. 

This writing is not done by a person called Maximus. The fact that things change and keep changing is something that is takes our attention away from Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB), our common way of talking. Since we are not talking that much anymore and since we are mainly watching TV or are reading words from paper or screens, Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), our natural way of talking, is happening much less often. There was a time we were more involved in SVB, because our environments stimulated us. This writer creates such environments in which we can again have SVB.