Re: virus: getting it (Brodie's Feb. post)

B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:54:34 PDT

I think this cuts to the heart of the matter: WHY
does a magician "deceive"? How do we (in general)
*react* to this "deception"-- as an opportunity to
"figure" something? Did the experiment then show
Brodie to function as a magician (and for the
"magician's" intent of encouraging a type of
thought)? Or, did Brodie question his own mystical
intent through proposing the experiment as a way to
test the effect of such an intent to deceive through
the reaction of a group who might thereby be seen to
"think" or not to "think" in response?

Richard once said that a "level three" mindset was
"empowering". He described this "level three"--
according to my understanding-- as the power to use
"uncertainty" to control (or the paradoxical
"deception" of a dichotomous, level 2, worldview and
a level 1 "intent" to control). Seems the mystics
attempt to control using deception and the "power"
this gives to him (as well as the encouragement of
this "magic" by the group) is ample reason for this
experiment... especially given the feeling of
dis-empowerment Richard was feeling at the time.

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>>I am not very impressed at Brodie's Brett stunt. I have done this
myself a
>>few times elsewhere in cyberspace, and frankly it bores me anymore.
Yes,
>it
>>is very easy to fool people, even intelligent ones, if the only cues
they
>have
>>are words.
>
> Speaking of deceiving people, it is easy to do even if people have
all
>the visual and audio information available. The magicians do it all
the
>time, and layman have no chance of figuring it out.
>
>
>Direction right the choosing of problem A have usually eye.
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B. Lane Robertson
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