Re: virus: "Intelligence" Self-Design

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Sat, 03 Oct 1998 17:14:45 -0400


Robert Moritz wrote:

> RIGHTSBOY@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Prepare to experience a paradigm "shift":)
> >
> > What you think the world (or a 'thing') "is", is not. What you think the
> > world "is" is the configuration of your brain's reaction circuitry, the
> > synaptic logic which directs your brain's reactions to its experiences. The
> > configuration of your brain's experiential-reaction circuitry (ERC) is
> > something over which you have potential control -- i.e. it has the capability
> > of "designing" its own configuration. As a "human being", your primary tool
> > for configuring your ERC logic is your language. And the first step to
> > conciously, deliberately, and intelligently engineering your own ERC logic, or
> > "intelligence", is to know what you are refering to when you say (and/or
> > "think") what the world "is".
> >
> > Christopher L. Turner 10-03-98
> >
>
> Sort of like grokking?
>
> Robert

Sure, I grok that. Its amazing how excited we all were as children when we found
out that our perceptions dont equal reality. Then it got worse when one day we come
to the conclusion that we were all that existed and our brains created the world for
us to play in. Then it was even better when I realized that my brain ain't so
important after all, at least to the rest of you, and that its really just an organ
that happens to produce consciousness as a side effect. Then I decided, I like
consciousness, and would play with altering it - then everything got dizzy and here
I am!

Sodom
Bill Roh