August 23, 2014

August 23, 2014

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Behaviorist

Dear Reader, 

 

These are successful and enjoyable days. Of what this success is a function, is to consider the entire behavioral history of this writer. However, it is especially the most recent history, which has brought a lot of recognition for Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB). What is happening, is happening because it can happen. It is so amazing to know how it really works. Although this writer had known how it works for many years, he wanted scientific validation for what he discovered. 

This writer finds increasingly in the works of other behaviorists, mostly in the works of behaviorologists, who insist on the natural science of human behavior, the explanation of both the simplicity and the complexity, but also the beauty and the power of SVB. He is convinced by what he reads that SVB is as real as chemistry, physics and biology and that his life is a culmination of naturally occurring events which led to his discovery. Everything that happened in his life was based on what happened, or rather, on what could happen before it happened.

Past events always control and determine future events. If no antecedent event can be found to provide the functional explanation for what one is experiencing, this doesn’t mean that it just happened out of the blue. Most likely it means we are not really looking for natural causes. Surely, our behavior is determined and something is causing it. Even so-called spontaneous creativity is determined by environmental variables. All behavior is based on previous behavior and could only occur due to the kind of behavior that preceded it. In other words, how we act at any given moment will happen because it could happen. It happens because of the history of behavior that led up to it. Someone who has no behavioral history with the Chinese language will not be able to all of a sudden speak it and someone who never played violin will not miraculously know how to play it. 

The conclusion is: at any given moment, only that behavior can happen, which is based on all the behaviors that have preceded it. Knowledge of and reliance on this philosophy of naturalism goes hand in hand with SVB, which is perfectly explained and validated by it.