Human behavior
is largely a function of individual perception, a combination of learned
material, the individual's environment and the physiology of the individual.
Perception is the overriding determinant
of human behavior. As a learning machine, the human animal will exhibit
behavior that reflects not only what it has learned, but failed to learn.
Human behavior reflects delusion and ignorance as well as one's factual
knowledge. The delusion and ignorance of the individual is largely
a function of socialization, reflecting a society's beliefs and norms.
Throughout
human history, man has made continuing progress in gaining real knowledge
about the Earth environment and the nature of existence, the laws and functions
of nature. However, during this same period, little progress has
been made in terms of human social systems. Human societies are fundamentally
the same as they have always been, based on the same premises as formulated
by the earliest social groups, those of our stone age ancestors.
All human social control institutions are based on a belief in the supernatural,
accepting neither the real nature of existence nor that of the human animal.
While man
has gained the technology to engineer his and her own future, moving
out into space, building environments as needed, human populations are
still maintained as chattel of the controlling institutions. They
are largely controlled by manipulated perception and maintained at levels
of delusion and ignorance that will insure continued control by the authoritarian
institutions.
We are
born into ancient systems of social control that maintain primitive ideas
and systems of belief, distorting popular perception and suppressing behavior
and information that would threaten these concepts and the institutions
that function to maintain them. Every
society expends the larger half of its energy and resources in the continued
indoctrination of people, the continuous propaganda and rhetoric,
necessary to maintain institutional control, and in the routine activities
of these institutions.
The
governing systems of every society on Earth are still authoritarian, imposing
arbitrary control upon populations. Such governing systems are not
oriented to factual reality. Each and every one of them is based
upon, and maintains, large amounts of cultural delusion, primitive concepts
and systems of belief that is instilled in populations and functions as
control by decompensating the individual and increasingly suppressing any
behavior not in line with institutional agendas.
Although there
are mountains of evidence to the contrary and zero evidence in support
of the cultural delusions and beliefs, they are never the less maintained
within every society. By instilling belief, the individual will stand
obediently to be shorn of autonomy and the ability to make his or
her own decisions, while supporting the oppressor. Such is the power
of belief, when used to distort and control perception.
In order
for the individual to break free of this tyranny by delusion, the individual
must have access to the reciprocal realities. Only then will the
individual be moved to throw off the shackles of the controlling systems.
Only by gaining an understanding of the fundamental realities and the mechanisms
of social control, will perception be altered. This entails a modification
of one's own programming in terms of increasing factual knowledge, necessary
to reduce the delusion and ignorance components of the intellect.
The thing
that makes this most difficult is that the individual has
been made a "believer" and will reflexively defend every delusion, rejecting
factual information in the area of a belief. Cultural delusions will have
been the main reason for the ignorance in the first place.
Ultimately, it is only the individual
who can effectively change or rescue the self. It is only the individual
who can accept or reject the necessary information.
Human
populations have ever been maintained at high levels of delusion and reciprocal
ignorance. At this
point in time, every culture propagates and instills large amounts of delusion.
The individual is made to be a believer, to accept and to support the premises
and systems of the culture. The citizen becomes a 'blind operative' of
the system, largely unaware of the role he or she is playing and becoming
a tool in the service of
institutional agendas.
In this
relationship, the individual is lead blindly, deferring reason and judgment
to authority and standing obediently to be sheared of freedom and the ability
to make determinations. The individual sacrifices self for the
benefit of the institution, dementing
the one's own children in the process.
This
form of control ties individual behavior to the arbitrary motivations of
the leadership, not the principles and requirements for human effectiveness
and long term survival and progress for the species. This form of control
(of governing), largely adrift from factual reality, has little ability
or motivation to address the real problems within societies and a rapidly
changing Earth environment. Nor, is it directed toward nurturing a rational
human being. Its predominant drive is toward the maintenance, and growth
of institutional power and domain, controlling and exploiting a population.
Our governments busy themselves with symptomatic problems and the creation
of diversions, carefully avoiding an examination of premises and the real
nature of things. The fundamental cultural pathogen, common to all
cultures, is the maintenance of one of the earliest human concepts, a belief
in magic.
The
following was written for use by another web site in its survey of religions
and religious beliefs. Although addressing the question of
"life after death", this essay provides a wealth of distilled information
about the fundamental human condition and where to go from here.
Addressing
the question of whether or not there is life after death requires first
addressing the nature of existence, then the nature of man as an artifact
of that existence. We discover what can and cannot exist by gaining an
understanding of existence in terms its mechanisms and functions, how things
work.
A recent
breakthrough in physics has supplied detailed information about the architecture
of the primary particles, the fundamental building blocks of existence,
and indicates the fundamental essence of existence to be spinning rings
of massless motion, cycling movement at the speed of light. The functions
of this movement are fairly simple, as all things become simpler as one
goes down in size scale.
This
cycling motion "latches" into stable configurations, providing both the
structure of the primary particles and driving their activities. The particles
are the fundamental building blocks of atoms and the source of all activity
in the universe. All matter and all activity in the universe issues or
translates from primary motion. All of the fundamental control mechanisms
are internal, as opposed to being imposed from somewhere beyond nature
(the "supernatural") and are inherent functions of primary motion and the
primary particles, the limited ways in which these particles inter-relate.
The
limited ways in which these mechanisms and structures articulate determine
the parameters of existence, what can exist and that which cannot. Within
this system, all the parts and pieces are active, latching into stable
configurations when all the environmental requirements are met. In
other words, what can develop, does develop, it all depends
upon the immediate environment.
The
determinant for continued existence is effectiveness, whether the entity
can effectively function within its environment and adjust as that environment
changes. Existence is a continuum of endless change but of absolute principles
and functions at the primary particle level. When an environment will support
a particular development it begins, building upon something that is already
there. Things that do not function effectively are self limiting.
Things develop generally from the simple to the complex, each addition
increasing the complexity of activity patterns.
Development
and degeneration are continuing processes. Existence is a continuum of
endless change but of absolute and unchanging principles. There was no
creation and can be no end point to existence. The fundamental "essence"
of existence is motion, insuring an eternity of endless change, but absolute
principles reflecting the nature of that "essence".
No boundary
can be ascribed to the Cosmos, as any such boundary would not contain the
space beyond, and thus, would not contain the whole universe. The renewal
mechanism of the universe is seen as Cosmic "bangs" at the scale of stars
and galaxies of stars. There was no "Big Bang" in which the universe was
created. For there to be a "bang", matter has collected by gravity, reaching
a point of instability beyond which gravity can no longer hold the mass
together. The blow-off of plasmic material in a "bang" provides the basic
material for development to begin anew.
Until
development reaches that of emerging intelligent life, its progression
is purely mechanistic. With consciousness comes the ability to learn and
to manipulate one's environment, thus choice, issuing from intellect, enters
the picture. Intelligent life is the Cosmos gaining self-awareness. We
are artifacts of the Cosmos and operate the same way the Cosmos does. The
basic mechanisms are all the same.
The
amount of matter (patterned primary motion), relative to space, is limited
and set, it is indestructible. One can change its form but not its principles
nor the fact of its existence.
Life
evolved on Earth through many species before the emergence of a humanoid
form of animal. As it's intelligence increased, so did it's cognizance
of environment and its ability to manipulate its environment in terms of
symbols, conception, reasoning and language.
The
basis of intelligence is the ability to conceptualize and discriminate.
Brains are the outgrowth of simpler systems for sensing and adjusting to
the environment. In other words, the brain has evolved as a mechanism for
interfacing with the environment.
The
human brain displays the progression of its development. The more primitive
brain systems and brain stem are internal, the cognitive and reasoning
functions having developed upon this. The cortex, where inductive reasoning
occurs, the highest level of reasoning and the latest development, is the
outermost layer of the brain. The brain is an organic computer, coprocessing
in a multitude of ways, and is the site of personality, or "soul", if you
will.
As intelligent
life emerges, it does so by gaining the capacity to symbolize, to manipulate
its environment in terms of symbols. Symbols begin as cognizance of observed
relationships and progresses through concepts, language, etc. All of this
symbolizing is perception, it is not the subject reality. Existence stands
alone, preceding and independent of perception.
As intelligent life emerges, there are far more concerns and questions
than for which there is knowledge. In the absence of knowledge, intelligent
life fills the voids with perception. This perception, in the beginning,
bears little relationship to factual reality, especially in terms of the
fundamental nature of things and how things work. As language and the ability
to communicate perception develops, highly delusional cognitive systems
come into place, further degraded by any deliberate insertion of false
concepts.
The
primitive humanoid cannot understand the forces of nature and the unpredictability
of fortune. It sees it's own and other's ability to affect changes through
force and thinks there must be greater unseen powers affecting those areas
outside of individual control. The fabrication of "gods" will be common
to any emerging intelligent life form. Social control begins in terms of
force and authoritarianism. All social systems function to maintain control
ultimately by force, although the emerging intelligent life form quickly
learns that behavior will follow belief.
Eventually,
belief becomes the main means of controlling behavior consistent with the
agendas of human institutions, force being brought to bear when indoctrination,
dogma and coercion fails. This form of control is authoritarianism. It
is arbitrary, determinations being by made by the authority, to any extent
possible or desired. Human history is largely a repeating story of a struggle
for power by competing authorities. In such systems, rationality and solutions
to problems remain relatively incidental to social control processes.
All
social control institutions, predominately religion and government, are
fundamentally authoritarian, focused primarily on maintaining and increasing
control over populations. Such control, being arbitrary, is eventually
destructive to a population and the species, resulting in divergent beliefs,
conflict and parasitical behavior destructive of the host environment.
At the
present stage of human development, populations continue to be controlled
largely by belief and institutional propaganda. The institutions maintain
the cultural delusions, generation after generation. Even in the most advanced
technological society, the fundamental premises remain those of ancient
peoples, concepts highly divergent from factual reality and insuring pathological
levels of reciprocal ignorance. In order to maintain a belief, the reciprocal
reality must be rejected. Any information that is perceived as a threat
to a presently held belief will trigger an emotional aversion to it, usually
causing an avoidance of such information.
The
fundamental conceptual pathology is that of a "god" model of the universe,
where all creation, energy and control is imposed from beyond nature,
the supernatural, essentially a belief in magic. This corruption of our
most fundamental concepts, that involving the nature of existence, distorts
virtually all subsequent human thought. Belief generates the greatest barrier
to learning and is the primary reason for the low mentality levels of the
masses. Human populations are kept buffered at levels of belief, ignorance
and dependency that will not present a threat to authoritarian institutional
control.
Authoritarian
social control has brought humanity to its present most dangerous condition,
an explosive mixture of over-population, mass ignorance, anger, frustration
and power mongering, where the technological ability to destroy a planet
comes under the control of people with essentially the mind-set of savages.
The
belief in a soul and an afterlife is a part of this system of control,
any delusion paving the way for further delusion. There is naturally high
motivation to believe in an afterlife, no one likes the idea of dying.
This provides high, natural motivation to maintain the "God model of existence".
However, consciousness is an attribute
of a brain. When that brain ceases to function, consciousness is gone,
just like the flame of a blown out candle. Consciousness is individual
to an organism. Although there will always be life, somewhere, it will,
in each case, be individual to an organism. However, should humanity survive
as intelligent life (to do so, populations will be required to abandon
the ancient beliefs and premises and become largely oriented to factual
reality), increased knowledge and technology will be necessary. At some
time in such a future, it is reasonable to expect the development of a
means of effectively transferring programming from one brain to another.
The
hint of this being a possibility occurred back in the 1970's, although
I have no direct knowledge of this. At that time I had a cousin who was
working on his masters degree in psychology and was involved with some
RNA experiments with rats. The experiments involved training rats to run
a maze. RNA was then extracted from the trained rats and injected into
untrained rats. The injected rats were invariably able to learn the maze
much faster than control rats that were injected with RNA from untrained
rats. This, however, is an extremely crude procedure and the extracted
RNA molecules, being long filaments, were highly damaged.
Since
thought processes are essentially electrical in origin, it may be possible
in the future to electronically record thought patterns in a brain, patterns
that originated in another brain. This would be about as close to having
a soul as would be possible. In the meantime, there remains no known
possibility of man having a "soul" that can live on after the destruction
of the body. Such an "essence" would require a form of organization, "structure".
You can't have organization without some physical thing being organized.
Intelligent life, unlike the lower forms of animals, has the ability and the propensity to alter its environments far faster than for which evolution can compensate. Long term survival for intelligent life will require the ability, and propensity, of the species to move quickly in corrective directions. So far, authoritarian social systems have maintained populations at mental levels too low to recognize and accept the necessary realities. To survive as intelligent life, the people of all cultures must move in opposition to their culture's mandates, stepping beyond the cultural limitations and educating themselves as individuals. Only then will there be enough rational pressure to change the directions of human populations. This can come only from a "Grass Roots" approach to the problem; not with the help of our institutions, but in spite of them.
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