Mr. Aldous Huxley, renowned essayist and novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity as a Ford research professor.

Mr. Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara,

where the discussion focused on the development of new techniques by which to control and direct human behavior.

Traditionally, it has been possible to suppress individual freedom through the application of physical coercion,

through the appeal of ideologies, through the manipulation of man's physical and social environment, and more recently through the techniques, the crudy techniques of psychological conditioning.

The ultimate revolution about which Mr. Huxley will speak today

concerns itself with the development of new behavioral controls

which operate directly upon the psychophysiological organisms of man,

that is the capacity to replace external constraint by internal compulsions.

As those of us who are familiar with Mr. Huxley's works well know,

this is a subject with which he has been concerned for quite a period of time.

Mr. Huxley will make a presentation of approximately half an hour, followed by some brief discussions

and questions by the two panelists sitting to my left of Ms. Lillian Rivlin and Mr. John

Post.

Mr. Huxley.

Thank you. First of all, I'd like to say that the conference at Santa Barbara was not directly concerned with the control of the mind.

That was a conference. There had been two of them now at the University of California

Medical Center in San Francisco. One this year, which I didn't attend, and one two years ago

where there was a considerable discussion on this subject. At Santa Barbara, we were talking

about technology in general and the effects it's likely to have on society and the problems

related to technological transplanting of technology into underdeveloped countries.

Well, now, in regard to this problem of the ultimate revolution, this has been very well

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