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STUCK INSIDE A SNOWGLOBE OF CONSC
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CRUSHING BORING TASKS
- Know your peak times. ...
- Take regimented breaks throughout the day. ...
- Just get started. ...
- Stop multitasking. ...
- Create a “super to-do-list.” ...
- Take a power nap. ...
- Optimize your work environment. ...
- Exercise regularly.
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The movements of animals may be compared with those of automatic puppets, which are set going on
the occasion of a tiny movement; the levers are released and strike the twisted strings against one
another.
—Aristotle, “On the Motion of Animals”
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BRAIN IS AN EVO HAPPENSTANCE FULL OF ERRORS
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FROM MICROTUBULES TO FEELING OF JOY/SORROW
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If I were asked to create, from scratch and under duress, a universal
mechanism for passing consciousness from parent to child, I would
probably come up with something a bit like grafting a plant. Each parent
would donate a small piece of their brain and place it on some sort of
growth medium, maybe some agar, or some flour with sugar and yeast, and
the child would sort of just expand, like those water-absorbent foam
dinosaur toys, into its final shape around the pieces of parental brain until it,
too, was conscious. How else could it possibly work?
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BRAIN IS MESSY, WET
THRIFT STORE BIN OF EVO HACKS
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“Electrical
Current Stimulates Laughter” can be read in the appendix (here). It is
mostly readable to nonscientists. However, this book is meant to be read
with no knowledge of the study in question, and it is explained in pieces,
sometimes just as a hint, in every chapter. The basic story is that a
neurosurgeon, using small, carefully placed blasts of electricity to the brain,
was able to cause the patient, Anna, to laugh. Alone, this is not surprising.
We have long known that electricity powers our muscles to act, and
laughter is just a series of rapid, coordinated muscle movements. What was
so surprising was that Anna said afterward that she also felt the subjective
sensations of joy and mirth alongside the laughter and that she, when asked
why she laughed, gave different and implausible answers each time.
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BRAIN ABHORS A STORY VACUUM
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SETH - CONSC IS CONTROLLED HALLUCN
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SHELDRAKE- ALL C IS INSIDE BRAIN , DISAGREE
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FIELDS ARE REGIONS OF INFLUENCE, INVISIBLE
EG GRAVITY HOLDING THE MOON
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After the Italian explorer Marco Polo spotted a rhinoceros, in
southeast Asia, while he was searching for what he believed to be a very
real and very profitable unicorn, Polo wrote that unicorns are “not at all
such as we describe them.” His prior knowledge and hearsay about the
legendary, valuable unicorn had changed what he saw in those brief
moments, because even though most of the physical and behavioral features
of the rhinoceros, like its weight, coloration, skin, location, and habits, did
not match what Polo knew about the story of unicorns, it did have a single
horn. The simple story won. His brain’s personal history had changed what
he saw
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In accordance with their inherited calendars, birds get an urge to move.
—William Fiennes, The Snow Geese
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EVO EXPLANATION - PREDATOR X PREY SITN, SURVVL ADVANTAGE
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EXTRAMISSION THEORY OF VISION
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… music heard so
deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the
music
While the music lasts.1
—T. S. Eliot
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ELECTROMAGNETISM X CONSC
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CHITTA VRITTI
Few other observations about brains and consciousness make the
simulation argument more compelling than the fact that, just as in a
computer, a simple bit of shunted electricity can cause a brain to compile,
run, and display to the conscious clipboard any conceivable experience a
brain can have: movements, emotions, sensations, imagined movements,
imagined sensations, memories, urges, and so on. During surgery, with the
skull open and the brain exposed, small bits of electric current can produce
a wide range of conscious experiences—hypothetically, as many
experiences as a brain could ever hold or have, if only we knew the code.
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