On Wednesday 08 August 2007 15:15, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Jones Beene wrote: > > >Wiki sez: Sirhan was hypnotized in prison by Dr. Bernard Diamond, > >who simply instructed Sirhan to climb the bars of his cage like a monkey. > > > >He did so. After the trance was removed, Sirhan was shown tapes of > >his actions. He insisted that he "acted like a monkey" of his own > >free will- he claimed he wanted the exercise. > > People who act on post-hypnotic suggestions always say they are > acting of their own free will. This illusion is not surprising > because you can never compel a person to do something he would not be > inclined to do on his own, either during or after hypnosis. I think > one of Freud's students first demonstrated this principle unwittingly > during a hypnosis demonstration at a university. The subject was a > comely young woman. The hypnotist, a young man, suggested that she > take off her clothes. She slapped him in the face, without leaving > the trance. (I believe it may be possible to convince an inhibited > person to take off her clothes, but you would have to first convince > her that she is alone in her bedroom.) > > You could never use hypnosis to compel a person to commit a crime or > some other they find unethical or disagreeable. You could do succeed > if your subject is a thug who enjoys committing crimes. > > A person who feels embarrassed or inhibited, and who would not think > of acting like a monkey in the first place could not be compelled to > do so by a posthypnotic suggestion. On the other hand, people like > me, who enjoy imitating monkeys and other antics would think nothing > of it, and would feel no inhibitions. > > Some people believe that hypnotic suggestibility correlates with > submissiveness and a willingness to follow orders. I do not know if > there is evidence for this. My guess is that there isn't. > > - Jed > > There was quite a stir over the possibility of chemically induced hypnosis during the 1970's. Some movies made on the theme. Quite possibly if this was done this way, free will had little part. The almost perfect cold programmed automaton who does not even realize his/her altered state.
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