plat's cave of shadows

the mind is like a box. it is three dimensional and has three-dimensional objects within it.

the act of naming the objects with names of our choosing , or according to convention of our choosing , creates two-dimensional imprints on one of the surfaces of the box, which are then used for communication with other 3dbox-having-robots.

it is possible to remember the three-dimensional nature of these imprints with constant conversation but it is also easy to forget their nature over time

thus language fails over time

dude, seriously !!

you gotta watch the intro on this thing
hmm. interesting. I'd like to correlate this with skinner,scvngr's dynamcics(47 of them),dan pink -drive,dan ariely,amos tversky and kahneman, buddha's brain....
onwards on to matrix,vance packard...
cyberpunk - trodes,matrix surfing, t.vs which watch you(orwell) ...,mind reading helmets

book alert

vance packard : the hidden persuaders
If I'd gotten this book when I had powershift and third wave in my hands, I'd probably not have been confused for eight years...
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this should go in ortrta:
the enslavement path - any being/machine/system which has multiple states and there is atleast one path which makes the machine 1.keep itself running 2.do an additional something
such that 2 doesn't interfere with 1, there will soon come an enslaver on the scene...

looking for > arthur koestler : the lotus and the robot

the void and the cosmology

I am nothing
I am everything
flower garland


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I'd like to offer something to help you but in the zen school we don't have a single thing!
- Ikkyu

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dopamine spikes

Dopamine spikes are like sudden infusions of capital into a flat economy -sort of like IT money into Bangalore - there's inflation, and if you're not careful, a depression follows.
So, be wary of highs..

Also, since attention is biased more towards sticks than carrots**, negativity is a much bigger force than commonly acknowledged.
And since the brain reinforces what is already inside, negativity leads to more negativity. Depression is next.
A solution is this : a habit of positive thinking is needed. A habit specifically because habits are more un/sub-conscious and conscious doing is hindered by what's already on the mind.
Enter God/religious/spiritual practices/Happy place/ etc - there are different mechanisms

** that's why everyone's always cribbing, that's why you don't know the value of something until you lose it - your brain is tuned to look for negatives all day long, not at how things are working correctly

places to intervene

leverage points in a system - link originally seen on ranprieur.com