Note 3 — I The Viewpoint of Behaviorism

By the way, the same warning applies to the relation between my organism as a physical system and “my body” as I have it in direct experience. Obviously “my body” is the outcome of certain special processes in my physical organism—started in the eyes, muscles, skin, etc.—exactly as the chair before me is the final product of other special processes in the same physical organism. And if the chair is seen “before me,” the “me” of this phrase means my experienced body, of course, not my organism as an object of the physical world. Even accredited psychologists do not always seem to be clear about this point. Later on we shall come back to it.