Is it possible or am I losing my mind?

Re: Is it possible or am I losing my mind?

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Tue, 2010-05-25 - 05:56

Hi TheBettles, Intelligence is a form of micro-seizures in Epilepsy, the experts are just missing a few pieces to be able to put the puzzle together. Thermodynamics already explains time-travel. A person just has to worship temperature instead of time. If everything possible wasn't already recorded, I'd write another S.F. novel exemplifying the simple core viewpoint. Chance just means ignorance, so be in the know, and add corrections to the proposal "that the so far one way street of reductionism has reached such a limit, and now has to be tempered in the spirit of Thermodynamics or emergence." "The Thermodynamic Universe" by B.G. Sedharth (2008), p. 43. If this is "losing my mind", the world's philosophers have been doing it for a few thousand years in a time mind-set. As I've previously confessed, Yes, Yes, and Yes. I do have Demons, I do have the Devils and the Devils' notebooks, and I possess the Possessed. Various translators always tinker with the Art, and the tinker's dam gives both more ingress and egress. Speaking the same language doesn't help, as Nabokov's moral art of the aesthete verifies. While epilepsy's ecstatic iurodivyi, but still being the idiot studying the Idiot is a more curious paradox, and playing the Gambler with the Confidence-Man, while being lectured on Job, gives my articulate speaking-in-tongues temptations of engraving Gold Tablets for Uncle GodBucks' immortality program (he's more afraid of dust now). For sure, it is best to seize on a Fine Persian Rug. And Mammon makes the irreplaceable easily replaced. At least that's what Uncle GodBucks chants in his Dollar Signs: "Lord of Silver, Lord of Gold, Lord for Money, Our Spirits sold, Let the Poor crumble to Dust, In God We Trust." I believe Uncle GodBucks is mistaken, and won't be rescued by Greenspan or Ayn Rand, but this Age of Materialism is contrary to my beliefs, like most every piece of USA currency declares. After researching in the University Library's neurological journals, I found the precursor theories similar to the Geschwind Syndrome across life-time temporal lobe epilepsy (and the "Seahorse Epilepsy" of the Limbic System with my Becker's Nevus), and, for then, I decided to regard my epilepsy more like visits to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" where I had laughed in Oberon's face, and declared that Oberon's powerful fairy dust and elixirs didn't scare me, in fact, I'm very immune and careless with them, besides, mushroom rings are much more fascinating, and he didn't kick me out of the enchanted forest, I was ignorant enough to escape to humanity on my own. Then it was said of Siger of Brabant (1235?-?1281): "Led like Vico and Nietzsche by the fascination of logic, Siger played with the dismal doctrine of eternal recurrence: since (he argued) all earthly events are ultimately determined by stellar combinations, and the number of these possible combinations is finite, each combination much be exactly repeated again and again in an infinity of time, and must bring in its train the same effects as before; 'the same species' will return, 'the same opinions, laws, religions.'" "The Age of Faith" by Will Durant (1950), page 957. Top this off with transcendental (non-algebraic) numbers, with Cantor Sets, and get ready for every variating permutation also repeated for infinity, whether in terms of time or temperature. If infinity is denied, zero is also denied. Tadzio

Re: Is it possible or am I losing my mind?

Submitted by phylisfjohnson on Tue, 2010-05-25 - 10:50

 I think you'd enjoy reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) who put forth a bold new theory of the origin of consciousness and a previous mentality known as the bicameral mind in the controversial but critically acclaimed book. Jaynes was far ahead of his time, and his theory remains as relevant today as when it was first published.

Jaynes asserts that consciousness did not arise far back in human evolution but is a learned process based on metaphorical language. Prior to the development of consciousness, Jaynes argues humans operated under a previous mentality he called the bicameral ('two-chambered') mind. In the place of an internal dialogue, bicameral people experienced auditory hallucinations directing their actions, similar to the command hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia today. These hallucinations were interpreted as the voices of chiefs, rulers, or the gods.

To support his theory, Jaynes draws evidence from a wide range of fields, including neuroscience, psychology, archeology, ancient history, and the analysis of ancient texts. Jaynes's theory has profound implications for human history as well as a variety of aspects of modern society such as mental health, religious belief, susceptiblity to persuasion, psychological anomalies such as hypnosis and possession, and our ongoing conscious evolution.     Phylis Feiner Johnson   www.epilepsytalk.com