who was ivan pavlov? >> guest: who was ivan pavlov? well he was a great scientist. he was a fascinating man and a man who lived a long and rich life for almost a century in russia. he was born in 1849 in a provincial city before the service were emancipated, and he died in stalin's russia in 1936. one thing if ivan pavlov was not was it meant who taught a dog to salivate at a bill. that is just a myth. it's an american myth largely. >> host: how did all this come about? the first one injured book is contrary to legend, ivan pavlov never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell but everybody has heard this name from watching this interview said oh pavlov's dogs. where did that come from? >> guest: well the short answer is that it came from as usual condemnation of structure contingency in american life in our history. the contingency was it was a simple translation problem for problem. the russian word was picked up and popularized as a buzzer. when we talked for about pavlov's work we will see why he couldn't have used a bell okay? atby the structure part, t

who was ivan pavlov? >> guest: who was ivan pavlov? well, he was a great scientist. he was a fascinating man and the man who lived a long and rich life for almost a century in russia. he was born in 1849 but us -- before the serfs were emancipated and he died in stalin's russia in 1936. one thing i've been pavlov was not was the man who taught a dog to salivate. that's just a meth. it's an american meth. >> host: how did that meth come about because the first one in the book is contrary to legend ivan pavlov pavlov never touted out to salivate to the side of the bell. everyone watching this interview would save pavlov's dogs. where did that come from? >> guest: well the short answer is that it came from the usual combination of structure and contingency of american life in all history. they contingency was it was a simple mistranslation problem. a russian word was mistranslated as bell and picked up and popularized and it means buzzer. and when we talk further about pavlov's work we will see why he couldn't use the bill. the structure part, the historical part is tha

impossible to use these materials to write a biography until gorbachev's time. >> host: what is ivan pavlov's lasting contribution to science? >> guest: the questions that he was addressing a i still very much under debate by scientists today. what i call in the book pavlov's quest to understand the subjective emotional intellectual life of human beings, simply by reflexes and nervous, very problematic. that is where the solution lies. others don't. today, pavlov watched saliva drought and trying to reason into the inner life and you and i can look at the oxygenation of morons when they have ir -- and our eye when a person experiences love it is very striking because you see is that movement. right before the monday reaches but what is the relationship between the two? his methods the use of the conditional reflectses to analyze and treat such things as depression or drug addiction or certainly showcasing a lot of important life a lot of important light on us as organisms. but his overall quest, the quest to understand human consciousness, its relationship to bodily processes, what i found mo

impossible to use these materials to write a biography until gorbachev's time. >> host: what is ivan pavlov's lasting contribution to science? >> guest: the questions that he was addressing a i still very much under debate by scientists today. what i call in the book pavlov's quest to understand the subjective emotional intellectual life of human beings, simply by reflexes and nervous, very problematic. that is where the solution lies. others don't. today, pavlov watched saliva drought and trying to reason into the inner life and you and i can look at the oxygenation of morons when they have ir -- and our eye when a person experiences love it is very striking because you see is that movement. right before the monday reaches but what is the relationship between the two? his methods the use of the conditional reflectses to analyze and treat such things as depression or drug addiction or certainly showcasing a lot of important life a lot of important light on us as organisms. but his overall quest, the quest to understand human consciousness, its relationship to bodily processes, what i found mo