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Brainwashing, also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education, is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. [1]
It shows how language can shape people’s sense of reality, how it can be used to conceal truths, and even how it can be used to manipulate history. “Language is one of the key instruments of political dominations, the necessary and insidious means of the ‘totalitarian’ control of reality” (Rai, 122).
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control is a 2004 popular science book explaining mind control, brainwashing, thought reform and coercive persuasion by neuroscientist and physiologist Kathleen Taylor.
- Kathleen Taylor
- 2004
Sep 18, 2017 · We argue that language is a species- and domain-specific human cognitive capacity (Box 1) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In essence, language is an internal computational mechanism that yields an...
- Angela D. Friederici, Noam Chomsky, Robert C. Berwick, Andrea Moro, Johan J. Bolhuis, Johan J. Bolhu...
- 2017
Oct 4, 2019 · Language plays a central role in the human brain, from how we process color to how we make moral judgments. It directs how we allocate visual attention, construe and remember events, categorize objects, encode smells and musical tones, stay oriented, reason about time, perform mental mathematics, make financial decisions, experience and express ...
- Lera Boroditsky
- 2019
It does so, and attains complete control over people’s mind. This paper examines how language sets a demarcation line for human psychological processes.
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Jan 1, 2024 · The established relationship between mind, language and thought has allowed us not only to understand the process by which thoughts can be expressed via language but also how these three concepts are interrelated in a unique system.
