To be alive or dead?
On the integration of human knowledge: "to mydi or not to mydi" ~ is that a question?
That man
literally does stand
mid-way between the supra-
universes and the infra-universes,
that he is in a sense at the cross-roads
of the universe is also indicated
by calculations which show
that 'a little' more
than the atoms that make a man's body
constitute enough material to build a star:
man lives his life in a middle scale universe,
suspended between two infinities,
and he appears to possess
characteristics from
both domains.
Evolution
is not finished
with the human organism
for still higher functions
are in process of
development.
Furthermore,
we surmise that Humanity
is a 'g d' in embryo,
a developing being
with those psychic powers
of omniscience & omnipotence which man hitherto
has assigned to his 'g d'. Such a theory
of the source of man's extrasensory powers
would be in harmony with the view that telepathic experience
may be an original and archaic way of establishing
understanding between individuals which,
in the course of time,
has been replaced by sign communication.
Some do not believe that telepathic transference
can be produced experimentally on a rational and conscious level.
But this fact - if fact it be - that telepathy cannot be reproduced at the logical-rational level
does not mean that it cannot be reproduced.
According to our own three-level scheme of orientations,
the coming superlogical level could reinstate a type of unity
which would make it appear as a kind of regression to a more primitive mode of response,
when in fact it is an adumbration of a coming unity.
In that event,
ESP & Psi phenomena generally are flickering and fitful anticipations
of the integration of a giant organism in which human function as neuroblasts of the world sensorium - cells in the social cortex which electromagnetic society
is beginning to proliferate
...
If human organisms
are embryonic cells in a super-organism which is still on its way,
individual human beings, as the neuroblasts of the emerging organism,
are also not finished products.
New functions may emerge
as embryogenesis continues,
and Psi-phenomena may provide the experimental basis for such developments.
The ESP faculties in those persons who possess it may be due to mutational changes in a few cells first, then more and more cells in successive generations, until the whole organ, the world sensorium,
has perfected a new function in all individuals.
To explain ESP {telepathy & clairvoyance} one may suppose that perceptive centres can respond to senso-ry and non-sensory stimuli. Therefore, vision in man is splitting into sensory & extra-sensory components.
The evolutionary changes
that are bringing this about would not appear in the size or weight of the brain
but in the morphology of the neuron: accordingly the external appearance may bear no obvious relation to the chemical changes within the neurons.
What about the problem of consciousness?
Beyond doubt the problem of establishing the missing connections
between the phenomena of consciousness and the rest of our scientific knowledge
is the most important unsolved problem of philosophy.
This is the one phenomenon
for which these is no existing physico-chemical model!
Supposing - an an optimistic mood - that such a model does appear,
will it come as a stroke of genius from one man - or will it come as a result of the gradual development
of existing knowledge along established lines?
At the moment we cannot say
...
For the behaviourist, of course, there i no problem:
he simply denies the existence of consciousness as a reality to be dealt with.
But this is silly. I recall how one of my own teachers, a well-known behaviourist,
once demanded of a pupil (me) who used the term 'consciousness' -
what do you mean by consciousness?
The reply was:
I mean by consciousness
what you experience when you ask me that question:
this silenced the behaviourist. One can define subjective terms - like 'redness', 'sweetness' etc. -
only by denotative reference. In that manner, the term consciousness, for me,
will refer to that complex of shifting patterns of present sensations,
images, ideas and feelings, which
all normal individuals
experience.
In the stream of time
this is a fusion of past, present and future.
In a classic treatise, someone pictured the stream of consciousness as for ever flowing
never the same with the stream as it flows
leaving a record in
living brains.
Unfortunately
the behaviourists have had relatively slight interest in the human brain -
it is like a 'black box' into which one need not look too carefully in order to establish uniform
and predictable connections {correlations}
between stimuli and responses.
But from the present viewpoint,
the human brain is the master tissue of nature - the 'specific organ of civilization', as some term it.
What goes on inside the skull of man is truly marvellous to consider, as has been in countless masterpieces. One of the more dramatic manifestations of the manner
in which higher organizational factors may arise,
in ways not directly related to sensory input
or motor outgo, is provided by the delusional & hallucinatory phenomena
induces by the 'psychedelics'. Here, indeed,
are 'intervening variables'
with a vengeance.
As fas as I am concerned
the conclusion for the time being
following out of these considerations is, that all
our conscious [and unconscious] impressions and expressions
are the result of 'psychedelic hallucinations', i.o.w.:
our main problem for the time being
is the existence or absence of
common means of understanding &
communication ~ genetically
all forms of life are somehow
related to each other though
socially we still do
often conflict with
one another
...
That man
literally does stand
mid-way between the supra-
universes and the infra-universes,
that he is in a sense at the cross-roads
of the universe is also indicated
by calculations which show
that 'a little' more
than the atoms that make a man's body
constitute enough material to build a star:
man lives his life in a middle scale universe,
suspended between two infinities,
and he appears to possess
characteristics from
both domains.
Evolution
is not finished
with the human organism
for still higher functions
are in process of
development.
Furthermore,
we surmise that Humanity
is a 'g d' in embryo,
a developing being
with those psychic powers
of omniscience & omnipotence which man hitherto
has assigned to his 'g d'. Such a theory
of the source of man's extrasensory powers
would be in harmony with the view that telepathic experience
may be an original and archaic way of establishing
understanding between individuals which,
in the course of time,
has been replaced by sign communication.
Some do not believe that telepathic transference
can be produced experimentally on a rational and conscious level.
But this fact - if fact it be - that telepathy cannot be reproduced at the logical-rational level
does not mean that it cannot be reproduced.
According to our own three-level scheme of orientations,
the coming superlogical level could reinstate a type of unity
which would make it appear as a kind of regression to a more primitive mode of response,
when in fact it is an adumbration of a coming unity.
In that event,
ESP & Psi phenomena generally are flickering and fitful anticipations
of the integration of a giant organism in which human function as neuroblasts of the world sensorium - cells in the social cortex which electromagnetic society
is beginning to proliferate
...
If human organisms
are embryonic cells in a super-organism which is still on its way,
individual human beings, as the neuroblasts of the emerging organism,
are also not finished products.
New functions may emerge
as embryogenesis continues,
and Psi-phenomena may provide the experimental basis for such developments.
The ESP faculties in those persons who possess it may be due to mutational changes in a few cells first, then more and more cells in successive generations, until the whole organ, the world sensorium,
has perfected a new function in all individuals.
To explain ESP {telepathy & clairvoyance} one may suppose that perceptive centres can respond to senso-ry and non-sensory stimuli. Therefore, vision in man is splitting into sensory & extra-sensory components.
The evolutionary changes
that are bringing this about would not appear in the size or weight of the brain
but in the morphology of the neuron: accordingly the external appearance may bear no obvious relation to the chemical changes within the neurons.
What about the problem of consciousness?
Beyond doubt the problem of establishing the missing connections
between the phenomena of consciousness and the rest of our scientific knowledge
is the most important unsolved problem of philosophy.
This is the one phenomenon
for which these is no existing physico-chemical model!
Supposing - an an optimistic mood - that such a model does appear,
will it come as a stroke of genius from one man - or will it come as a result of the gradual development
of existing knowledge along established lines?
At the moment we cannot say
...
For the behaviourist, of course, there i no problem:
he simply denies the existence of consciousness as a reality to be dealt with.
But this is silly. I recall how one of my own teachers, a well-known behaviourist,
once demanded of a pupil (me) who used the term 'consciousness' -
what do you mean by consciousness?
The reply was:
I mean by consciousness
what you experience when you ask me that question:
this silenced the behaviourist. One can define subjective terms - like 'redness', 'sweetness' etc. -
only by denotative reference. In that manner, the term consciousness, for me,
will refer to that complex of shifting patterns of present sensations,
images, ideas and feelings, which
all normal individuals
experience.
In the stream of time
this is a fusion of past, present and future.
In a classic treatise, someone pictured the stream of consciousness as for ever flowing
never the same with the stream as it flows
leaving a record in
living brains.
Unfortunately
the behaviourists have had relatively slight interest in the human brain -
it is like a 'black box' into which one need not look too carefully in order to establish uniform
and predictable connections {correlations}
between stimuli and responses.
But from the present viewpoint,
the human brain is the master tissue of nature - the 'specific organ of civilization', as some term it.
What goes on inside the skull of man is truly marvellous to consider, as has been in countless masterpieces. One of the more dramatic manifestations of the manner
in which higher organizational factors may arise,
in ways not directly related to sensory input
or motor outgo, is provided by the delusional & hallucinatory phenomena
induces by the 'psychedelics'. Here, indeed,
are 'intervening variables'
with a vengeance.
As fas as I am concerned
the conclusion for the time being
following out of these considerations is, that all
our conscious [and unconscious] impressions and expressions
are the result of 'psychedelic hallucinations', i.o.w.:
our main problem for the time being
is the existence or absence of
common means of understanding &
communication ~ genetically
all forms of life are somehow
related to each other though
socially we still do
often conflict with
one another
...
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