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Version: 2019-10-04
For Stig Björkman,
and for
Charlie Gross
A self is simply a device for representing a functionally unified system of responses.
B. F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
I: Valedictorian
II: Zone 9 – The Happy Place