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The Reciprocality Project
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Frederick Mann's Contributions
Contributions by Frederick Mann and his associates are included in boxes with pastel backgrounds. These additional writings do not form part of the "official Reciprocality Project." They have not been approved nor authorized by The Reciprocality Project authors. The views expressed in the additional writings may not correspond with the views of The Reciprocality Project authors. Mark Lindsay and others have provided helpful feedback for the additional writings.
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Reflective Thinking Skills
Most people could become vastly more effective in life generally, if they
were to improve their reflective thinking skills and understanding of human
nature. The writings on these pages cover some astounding breakthroughs
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Welcome to Reciprocality
This project began as a bit of practical industrial
psychology, and ended up unfolding into an understanding of how most
people in most human societies have a consistently distorted view of
everything. Not everyone is caught in the confusion, and as
the picture emerged, an alternative model of relationships between
observable phenomena that seems to be experienced by creative
programmers in software engineering, star diagnosticians in medicine,
great physicists and mathematicians, so-called ADHD children, people
who "Know Quality" in industry, poets, painters, sculptors and mystics
became describable - but only in its own terms. The alternative
picture is wholly rational, but not reductionistic. Best of all, it is
scientifically grounded and experimentally testable. If the experiments fail
we can junk it. If they work, we've learned something important.
By watching creative software engineers I learned how to teach
the necessary state of mind to people who thought they couldn't do it. Then
the similarity between creative engineers and children diagnosed as ADHD
led to a remarkable idea. Important features of our culture put most people
into a state where their brain chemistry is out of balance by age six, and
this actually turns part of their awareness off. Get a whole society in this
state, and they create a powerful logical blindspot that stops anyone seeing
what is happening. The two effects protect each other and cause an awful lot
of trouble.
I tested the blindspot idea by applying it to some profound
mysteries in current physics, and answers came rolling out! The sums remain
the same, but the underlying assumptions are different. This is all about
awareness, so I applied the new physical model to the question of what
consciousness is, and got an answer quite different to anything suggested to
date. Bundle it all up, and I got a concrete picture of how the physical
processes in the universe - including consciousness - fit together, and how
they look from our point of view.
Then things got very Indiana Jones.
I discovered that mystical or religious records from several traditions all
contain unambiguous discussion of the same logical and
physical concepts. It seems that many other people have seen this
picture at different times and places. Since they couldn't directly
communicate the picture to others because of the brain chemistry and logic
problems defined here, they all contributed to creating a situation where it
could be communicated. These people thought big. They used their
understanding of the situation to make adjustments and create work
oriented cultures that study science! Humanity would still be stuck in a
social and cognitive tornado, but it would be gathering clues like crazy and
eventually the penny would have to drop. Some of the parts of the
solution are more obvious than others although one needs the big picture to
tell the difference between payloads, transport mechanisms and side-effects.
The new physical model describes concrete processes
that up until now have only been identified vaguely and intuitively by a
minority of individuals with healthy brain chemistry but confused by their
very language. This scientific treatment of spiritual experience
resolves the disagreement between the two mindsets in the same way that an
atom bomb would seem impossible unless one knew about fission and e =
mc2, but with the physical theory one knows that the bomb
can be built with uranium but not peanut butter.
By the time the papers were written, a review of the Programmers' Stone
transcripts had appeared on Slashdot. This led to the creation of the
progstone mailing list at eGroups, and the support that has built this website.
Here is the Irregular Activities page, and
here is the News page at Melloworld.
The short text sections on this page are summaries of the
ideas explored within each paper. All the papers themselves are hyperlinked
to the underlined, bold section titles. At the end of each summary, there
is a link to the full collection of additional materials, links and references
for that paper. The project started by collecting practical teaching
materials, and continued in that style. Here is an index
of funny bits.
Alan G. Carter
alan@melloworld.com.
Joining the Project
This is a young and growing, collaborative project. Philip Arickx has
set up an automated mailing list at eGroups for discussing Stone and
Reciprocality related issues. It has several enthusiastic active
members, and nearly 200 people following the discussions. To subscribe,
please fill in this form. [service defunct]
There is also the
Irregular Activities Page listing lots of interesting things that need
following up on.
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| Artificial Discipline: | Software Engineering |
This part is included here to set the scene. It is not a part of the Project,
rather it is what motivated it. Since the hyperlinked material was primarily
intended for working computer programmers, I'll give a summary of what the
Stone was about.
I wanted to get better at teaching
software engineering. I quickly discovered that the trick of it was to turn
my students' brains on. With the correct mental attitude in place,
the details of anything they needed to do tended to sort themselves out.
Over many years I tried many things and kept
whatever worked. The hyperlinked title leads to a complete set of my final
material, which produces a step function in the usefulness of
commercial IT staff, but is usually commercially inacceptable because it
emphasises things like personal awareness and responsibility! Even more
oddly, no-one
will ever say why they will not discuss this stuff in commercial
contexts - they just change the subject, or blame ISO9001 (which in itself is
not to blame) every time.
I was of course aware that the direction my teaching practice was going in was
the exact opposite of trends in the industry, which had come to believe in
something called the Software Factory. In this, unskilled "code monkeys"
are rewarded when they pretend to be mindless automatons themselves, executing
programs found in shelfware - so called standards documents - which are taken
as behavioural tramlines and micropoliced like scenes out of Monty Python's
"Spanish Inquisition" sketch. Which causes a problem if the program they must
write is not exactly the same as a program that has been written before. And
that's all a good programmer should do! I was also aware that the way I was
teaching students to approach problems worked, whereas Software
Factories are a silly idea, sterile from the beginning.
I had a feeling I was onto something very important indeed here. It was the
psychological equivalent of a stick with one end. If only I could find a way
to look at it without getting cross-eyed, I could learn more than I could
ever have hoped about the nature of "reality".
So I stopped teaching and started investigating.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
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Additional Materials
Knowledge Autoformalisation
An approach that is very compatible with the Stone.
Extreme Programming
A summary of the new book.
Unsolicited Testimonial
To the power of the Programmers' Stone.
Links
TRIZ A remarkable Russian website
describing an approach that complements the Stone. One point - while the
objective laws governing the development of technical systems are quite real,
the resultant algorithm is not proceduralisable in a programmatic sense.
The use of the word "imaginative" at each point in the description of the
algorithm recognises this. TRIZ could be used to semi-proceduralise the ideas
in the Stone for introduction to the workplace, and the Stone explores the
necessary psychological development of the TRIZ user.
The
Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. Raymond's paper on the incredible
flexibility and efficiency of co-operative software development compared to
central planning - let alone the commerical dumb compliance policing model.
Mining Usefulness
As opposed to compliance. For example.
The Jargon File
The classic celebration of hacker culture, maintained by Eric S. Raymond.
Design Patterns in MFC
An interesting study of the design patterns that can be seen in the MFC and
other graphical toolkits.
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| Artificial Discipline: | Neurochemistry |
M0 is a previously unsuspected public health problem. It is ancient and vast,
and only fragments of information regarding its origins and the psychological
state of humans prior to its instantiation have passed down to us. It consists
of a neurochemical effect induced by boring social conditions that
people get addicted to like some athletes get addicted to their own adrenaline
and end up B. A. S. E. jumping.
People so hooked on their own boredom products lose access to a whole layer of
cognitive abilities based on the use of precisely tuned feedback loops
in the brain. The trouble is, they don't even notice anything is wrong, firstly
because they can't see what they can no longer see, and secondly because they
experience an artificial sense of well-being and see repetitive behaviour as
an inherent good. They are also distressed by novelty, because it induces a
physiological withdrawal. There is a cultural distortion produced by having a
majority of people in this state, which makes it difficult to ask the questions
that would expose it. There is natural immunity, and natural immunes have
their own interesting strengths (and weaknesses, in the circumstances). It's
why some people are more "with it" than others. They just aren't sick
in this sense, and so they can perceive and then dynamically replan to include,
the implicit.
Ritual junkies don't know they are junkies and so have no opportunity to
exercise their will in the face of addictive behaviour. They get nasty when
deprived of ritual or subjected to novelty. It's why programming, which should
always be about solving new problems every time, degrades into ritualised
bullying to "follow procedures" with empty outcomes in commercial settings.
The ritual is more important than the result, and most people don't have the
cognitive capacity to be fluent with problem domains and
understand programs holistically, as non-trivial systems must be
understood. This is why the commercial software sector hasn't produced anything
new since 1993 while freeware is heading for a Vingian Singularity. This
website is powered by Linux.
Fear of withdrawal (addicts) or bullying by addicts (immunes) makes this
subject difficult for most people to discuss, although they are not able to say
why. It's frightening, but it's beatable - that's how the Programmers' Stone
worked.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
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Additional Materials
An Introduction to M0
A succinct introduction to the M0 concept by Joss Earl.
An Example
Of how the M0 effect sneaks up on people in the workplace.
Consensual Boredom and Nausea
Some discussion of the way common situations are constructed to maximise
boredom, and the physical distress that some natural immunes experience in
these situations.
The Howtos
Some useful techniques for people free of dopamine self-addiction.
Is M0 A Racist Hypothesis?
Extracts from some correspondance which addresses this misunderstanding,
which is much more common than it should be.
Links
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
by Prof. Russell Barkley, from the September 1998 Scientific American. This
seminal article documents the discovery of the polymorphic dopamine D4
receptor in the brain.
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Lots of information about ADHD.
What's It Like To Have ADD?
Written by Edward Hallowell M.D. who doesn't seem to be too unhappy with his
superior mode of cognition. The state of mind Hallowell describes here is
very compatible with the MO argument, exploitation of feedback in cognition etc.
The NIDS Board
A group of clinicians who have identified evidence of viral infection
similarities between quiet ADHD children, acquired autism
children, and people with CFIDS (ME). Their model is that a stealth virus
causes the other problems. This conflicts with the model here, which says
that the immune system weakness is caused by the stress of being normal in
an abnormal world.
Looking Skills
The attitude in this spoof piece is what one hears in many commercial
IS09001 discussions, and from educational psychologists and the like
discussing ADHD.
Pay Attention
An editorial from New Scientist describing how 4 million American
children are now being drugged with Ritalin to "cure" a supposedly genetic
disease that was unknown a generation ago.
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Expanded Monster Zero (EM0)
by Frederick Mann
My understanding is that "M0" refers to "Monster Zero." In my opinion, M0
is part of a larger phenomenon which I call "Expanded Monster Zero (EM0)."
I've identified the following main elements of EMO:
EM0 victims tend to be addicted to and/or stuck in:
- Dopamine Self-Addiction
- Automatic Emotions
- Stimulus-Response Thinking, Communication, and Behavior
- Repetitive Thinking, Communication, and Behavior
- Trance and Hypnotic States
- Bicameral-2-Type Thinking and Communication
- Structure, Hierarchies, Rituals, Obedience, and Habits
- Impulsive Acceptance and Rejection
- Fixed Ideas (e.g., Scarcity, Inevitability, and No-Solutions)
- Fallacious Forms of Reasoning
- Identification with or Surrender to Real or Imaginary External Entities (Idols and Idolatry)
- Conformity with Cultural Customs and Fixations
- Helplessness and/or Victim Mentality
- Life Scripts and other Programs
- Rigidity, False Pride, and Arrogance
- Unwanted Life Conditions
- Psychological Inertia
- Meaning Inversion
- Denial and Selective Blindness
- Solution Blindness
- Elevation of Symbols over Physical Reality (Ghost Not)
- Errors Built Into Language (automatic false concepts)
- Deep Stupidities (certain false concepts)
- Coercive Political Systems (typically characterized by, inter alia, pretense, deception, fraud, violence, terror, and human subjugation, exploitation, and slaughter)
- Rote Learning through Memorization and Repetition
EM0 victims tend to fear, lack, and/or avoid:
- Using their Senses to identify Unreal Aspects of "Conventional Reality" ("consensus reality"/"agreed-upon reality")
- Self-Observation
- Reflective Thinking
- Critical Self-Evaluation
- Questioning "what Everybody knows"
- Personal Responsibility
- Change
- Novelty (New/Different Information)
- Self-Trust
- Learning in a wide Variety of ongoing Ways, including through Experiment, Feedback, and Understanding
For an elaboration of EM0, see #TL04AA: Expanded Monster Zero (EM0)
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| Artificial Discipline: | Logical Philosophy |
The cultural distortion produced by a society of people who are addicted to
their own boredom products without knowing it turns out to be a very simple and
elegant thing. It might have been some kind of amazingly complex
network of linguistic errors or something (Samuel R. Delany's "Babel 17" came
to mind at one point) - but it isn't.
It consists of a mistake that is made initially by the natural immunes in a
ritual addicted society, where their intuition keeps telling them there is
something not right, but their paradigm, culture and language prevent them
from comprehending or expressing what it is. Faced with this dilemma in
childhood, natural immunes develop the capacity to perceive
conventionally - to actually see what other people say is there rather
than what their own senses tell them.
The really wonderful thing about the distortion is that it doesn't matter if
the capacity is ever used to subconsciously edit perception. Just
erecting the perceptual "apparatus" to be able to do it introduces a
precisely definable logical error at the base of all thinking, which then
propagates all the way up to produce a characteristic error in the conclusions
the person comes to. There is an Inner Not at the base of all thinking that
ends up as an invisible and unremovable Ghost Not that makes the conclusions
invalid. It is because of this generality that the effect is so
mathematically elegant.
Some of the other results of the Project may be more immeadiately striking,
but it is the Ghost Not that is the jewel. It is what all the work with
programmers and the M0 effect leads to, and from it comes everything else. It
stands alone, and is so beautiful it is obvious once one knows the trick of it,
yet invisible otherwise. But meditate upon the wonder of the Ghost Not and
make your own mind up!
Here are the full additional materials, links and
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Additional Materials
The Ghost Not - Key Points A very succinct
description of the Ghost Not concept by Constantine Plotnikov.
Thoughts on Improving the Presentation Some futher
discussion of the core idea, and different ways to express it.
Multi-Dimensional Critical Thinking A remarkable
paper by Prof. N. N. Nepejvoda that parallels much of the M0 thinking.
Translated from the Russian by the author. Portable Document Format.
Motivational Inversion Some discussion of the idea
that the Ghost Not converts selfishness into anti altruism, altruism into
anti selfishness, rationalism into anti spirituality and spirituality into
anti rationalism.
Ghost Not Ethics What happens to ethics in a
delusional logical field caused by an underlying disbelief in objective
reality.
Links
The Human Evasion
by Celia Green. This remarkable work takes over in the human psychological
context where "2: The Ghost Not" leaves off. The Ghost Not provides a
single logical distortion to account for the observed Evasion, while the
Evasion works through the human consequences of the Ghost Not.
Stephane
Lupasco A prior discoverer of some of the formal aspects of the Ghost Not,
who realised the consequences for antangonism based transactions.
The Pleasure of Thinking for
Yourself. Sane comments from a Ghost Not infested world.
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The Essence of Ghost Not and Primeval Stupidity
by Frederick Mann
"Your parents are frightened, your educators are frightened, the governments and religions are frightened of your becoming a total individual, because they all want you to remain safely within the prison of environmental and cultural influences." -- Krishnamurti
Objective reality exists. There is a physical reality independent of what we may think of it. We can use our senses to discern aspects of physical reality.
In order to better understand and interact with physical reality, we use representational systems in our heads, consisting of symbols. The symbols are intended to stand for or represent aspects of physical reality.
Physical reality simply is. But our symbols include "not operations" -- negation and denial. In physical reality, there are mountains, valleys, etc.; but there aren't really any "not-mountains," "not-valleys," etc. However, in our heads we can have the symbols "not-mountains," "not-valleys," etc. This indicates a most important difference between physical reality and our representational systems. It's important to realize that we are free to create whatever symbols we like and do with them whatever we like!
Many differences between our symbols and physical reality can and do occur. Reification (or hypostatizaton) is a process whereby we create a symbol for which there is no corresponding thing in physical reality. Then we think that because we use this symbol (and can apparently communicate intelligibly with others, using the symbol), therefore the symbol stands for something that exists in physical reality. A good example is the symbol "constellation." We observe several stars, which we consider to form a "group" we call a "constellation." If we measure the distances between the earth and these stars, we find some are much closer to us than others. If viewed from a very different point in the universe, anyone suggesting that these stars are in a "constellation," would be laughed at.
We can test our symbols against physical reality by using our senses. Many people have seen stars; nobody has really seen a so-called "constellation." Of course, anyone can draw a map with a number of stars on it, and then draw connecting lines between them and claim they are a "constellation." Our symbols are essentially mind-maps of the territory of physical reality. But the map isn't the territory. The menu isn't the meal.
Some people fail to make a clear distinction between their symbols (maps) and physical reality (territory). This is what Ernst Cassirer called "primeval stupidity" ("Urdummheit" in German) -- see #TL071: Ernst Cassirer and "Primeval Stupidity."
Our symbols are a means toward the end of better understanding and interacting with physical reality. Hans Vaihinger (author of The Philosophy of As If) formulated the principle of "The Preponderance of Means over Ends" -- our means tend to become more important to us than our ends; our means tend to preponderate over our ends. Because we have a SYMBOL called "constellation," many people claim that a THING "constellation" exists. And if you press them, many will insist that they can actually SEE the "constellation."
We can make a distinction between actual perception and conventional perception or "agreed-upon perception." For most children, at an early age, because of social pressure, it's as if a switch in their mind is turned from "actual perception" to "conventional perception." After that, if there is a conflict between "what everybody agrees they see" and "what children actually see," they will "fall in line" (conform) and "see" ("perceive") all kinds of things like "constellations." This is a most important aspect of Ghost Not. It's a disconnect from physical reality.
Another most important aspect of Ghost Not is DENIAL. At the same time as the disconnect, you deny that you made a disconnect (flipped your switch from actual perception to conventional perception). In #TL071: Ernst Cassirer and "Primeval Stupidity," I give some examples of how conventional people (Ghost Not victims) claim that they see things, even though they can provide no evidence that they've actually seen these things. In their minds they just "know" that these "things" exist "because everybody knows it" and their symbols are more important to them than their actual perceptions. (They may know the expression, "come to your senses," but they have no idea what it implies.)
At an early age, humans learn to associate words with things: hand, foot, face, floor, table, bird, cat, dog, tree, etc. They put labels on things. They come to identify labels with things.
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... so let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." -- Richard Phillips Feynman
This illustrates the important thinking skill of direct observation (that which is present to you through your senses), as opposed to perceiving through symbols. A most important part of the Ghost Not mechanism is switching from direct sensory perception to "indirect symbolic perception."
To recover from this aspect of Ghost Not you need to discover that the "thing at the end of your arm with five fingers" isn't really a "hand." "Hand" is a noise that comes out of your mouth -- or scribbles on paper. You need to unlearn the word-thing identification. You still call it "hand" so you can communicate to others about it. But you realize that the "hand" label is just an arbitrary part of "consensus reality."
Just learning a human language such as "standard English" and accepting its words as valid makes you a Ghost Not victim!
In extreme cases, people will kill and sacrifice their own lives for symbolic causes. I invite you to think about whether killing and dying "for God and Country" is a case in point. Such are the "delights" of Ghost Not victims!
Ghost Not is a most important element of Monster Zero... which Reciprocality Project author Alan G. Carter originally called the "Stupidity Virus!" -- see The Anatomy, Life Cycle and Effects of the Phenomenologically Distributed Human Parasite M0.
There's more here!
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Ghost Not and Snapping
by Frederick Mann
In 1978, the important book 'Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change' by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman was published. (A second edition was published in 1995. My quotes in this article are from the original edition.)
Conway and Siegelman describe "snapping" as a "sudden, drastic alteration of personality in all its many forms... in which intense experience may affect fundamental information-processing capacities of the brain."
I propose that the process whereby young children "flip" from relying on their senses as their primary determinants of "what is" to "conventional perception" is a kind of "snapping." However, it may occur over a longer period than the "snapping" described by Conway and Siegelman.
For the complete article, click here.
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| Artificial Discipline: | Fundamental Physics |
If the Ghost Not was what it seemed to be, it should be able to offer
immense insights into problems that have until now seemed intractable, because
of the psychological distortion it causes. So I tested it by looking for the
signs of its presence in people's thinking about the deep problems in physics.
It was an astonishing experience. Within a few short days I had an adjustment
of existing concepts which produced something I had never seen before, and that
seems to be allowable by prior knowledge, explains an awful more with a
simpler theory than we have had to date, and integrates far, far more.
It offers a picture where gravitational and inertial mass have a common cause,
where the redshift can be explained without exempting the observer from scaling
with the rest of the universe, where there are no philosophical problems in
quantum mechanics, and where we know why the geometry of nature is fractal.
It doesn't necessarily matter if this picture is correct or not, for two
reasons. Firstly the construction of this novel picture as a job of work
undertaken using the Ghost Not as a tool supports the argument that the Ghost
Not effect on human psychology is real. Secondly, there is no doubt that the
universe it describes is the one that sources usually regarded as magically
informed thought they were living in, as is shown is 6: History.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
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Additional Materials
Predeterminism in Relativity A quote from Kip Thorne's
"Black Holes and Time Warps" showing that predeterminism really does lurk
within Relativity.
Some Further Discussion Of the ideas.
Links
Availability, Exergy, the Second Law and all that... An interesting example
of what happens when we turn a part of the current physical paradigm upside
down. What we know about some energy is more important than how much of it we
have.
Backwards Causation A New Scientist item on Lawrence Schulman's work.
Backwards causation gets statistical validation. Experiential diode concepts
apply, and we don't need the "regions of this universe" bit!
The Speed of
Gravity The evidence this fellow cites is correct. Amaze yourself.
Check it out!
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| Artificial Discipline: | Consciousness Studies (but its getting tricky...) |
The universe described above has the property, that the one we have been
thinking we live in does not, that it is arranged as a Bennett machine. This
changes the entire debate regarding the nature of consciousness, like the
Ghost Not breaths new life into physics.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
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Additional Materials
A Model of Consciousness Proposed by Joss Earl.
Consciousness and Heat Further discussion of the
relationship.
Links
One Thousand Minds is a freeware
project which is intended to test the model of consciousness.
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| Artificial Discipline: | Fundamental Semiotics (trickier still...) |
The Programmers' Stone, and the M0 hypothesis, made progress when I dropped
unhelpful language, and allowed the ideas to stand on their own terms.
This paper attempts to do the same thing for the ideas in the preceding
two papers. The structure of the result is clearly recognisable as the
structure of the ideas found in Steiner, Gurdjieff, Bailey and the Gnostic
Gospel. It seems that whenever people see around M0, they see the same thing.
Hence we have an ADHD, hacker, mystic character type. The mystics
go on about stuff that is obvious to inspection for M0 free people, but
people trapped in M0 don't have the necessary hardware features working in
their brains to understand it.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
references. |
Additional Materials
An Expression of the Paradigm by Zach Gold.
A Quotation from Bennett that parallels Zach.
Speculations Some extreme speculations within the
paradigm.
Links
Dynamical Symmetries:
Autopoietic Architecture by Nigel Reading. This reasoned, creative flow of
ideas captures the harmony of Hypertime and the fusion of inductive and
deductive reasoning that M0 free humans can accomplish.
Re-Evolution by Terence
McKenna. A remarkable expression of the key ideas in the paper and a
description of shamanism in those terms.
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| Artificial Discipline: | Applied Theology (trickiest...) |
Hypertime is an interesting idea. It might even be correct, and it explains an
awful lot. This paper is very different to the rest. It shows quite
unambiguously that whether it is true or not, it is certainly the universe
that Jesus (and other mystics) all thought they were living in. It
does it by providing an explicit, physical interpretation of all 114 Logia in
the earliest known Christian source document, called the "Gospel of Thomas".
Note that in hypertime, complex structures self-create by seeding themselves
with copies of their own future state. There is also a thermodynamic
explaination available of course, although sometimes these explainations get
very implausible. That's the difference between so-called body and so-called
spirit.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
references. |
Additional Materials
Religion Design and Purpose Some thinking on what
religions are for, and how they are designed.
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| Artificial Discipline: | None (Specialization is for insects!) |
With the confusion surrounding cognition sorted out, and a paradigm
established which - whether or not it is correct - is clearly one
that many in full cognition have seen throughout the ages, it is
possible to discuss many subjective phenomena that are rarely
discussed, and yet which seem to form a part of the experience of a
great many effective and creative people. This applies as much to
technologists as artists - the artists just discuss it more.
The first step in sorting out the question of whether these
experiences reflect reality or not, is understanding what kind of a
reality we think they occur in.
Here are the full additional materials, links and
references. |
Additional Materials
Channeling Some very interesting comments from our
Bangkok Wizard.
Steiner Some quotes from Rudolf Steiner that
indicate he really did have the Reciprocality concepts - and
that Reciprocality expresses the mystical truths Steiner understood.
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