Does this music make you sick?
It probably doesn't, but if you were Alex DeLarge it would. In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Alex, a murderer, is subjected to the Ludovico technique, an example of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning takes a neutral stimulus and pairs it with an unconditioned stimulus (a stimulus which needs no teaching to cause a reaction) to cause the previously neutral stimulus to have an effect in the subject. Alex is being conditioned to have a negative response to violence and sexual excitement. 
It previously had no response, but when violent and sexual movies are paired with a nauseating medication, he learns to associate violence and sex with extreme sickness. Unfortunately, the soundtrack to the movies is Beethoven’s 9th, which is then ruined for Alex because he is conditioned to become ill when he hears it.
It previously had no response, but when violent and sexual movies are paired with a nauseating medication, he learns to associate violence and sex with extreme sickness. Unfortunately, the soundtrack to the movies is Beethoven’s 9th, which is then ruined for Alex because he is conditioned to become ill when he hears it. 
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