Abstract

The rise of behaviorism in America is reviewed. The concept of mind is rejected by behaviorism as being the "ghost in the machine." In questioning physical-monism, the author bases his argument on the suggestion by Eccles that "spatio-temporal fields of influence are exerted by the mind on the brain in willed action." The argument for the possibility of the existence of mind is built upon the unclear results in the attempts to communicate with the dead and upon the psi class of events. The psi events are comparable to ESP in our culture. The author takes the viewpoint that the range of probability is narrow and unusual events occur beyond this range.