[Physicist]

It was sort of a pun. The "box" I was thinking of was the conceptual box of determinism that I was trying to go beyond with my actions. That "box" made me think of Skinner's stimulus-response formulation of psychology, which I always have thought was crap. (A "Skinner box"--what he called an "Heir Conditioner"--was of course a very different thing.) However, since coming to realize, through introspection, just how much of my conscious thought simply rolls down the groove of least resistance, I have decided that maybe Skinner's ideas weren't 100% unadulterated crap.

[js1138]

I'd be curious to know which of Skinner's scientific ideas are absolute crap. Nevermind his politics or dreams of utopia. He did have a big fight with Noam Chomsky, a plus in my book.