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"Let the meme fight for its life in the jungle of competing models of reality...
When I pull back from the specificity and the fact that I invented it that's my biggest problem. If I hadn't invented this, if I had just heard that somebody invented it, and this is what it was, I think I would find it very interesting. But since I know the inventor very well, I'm very prone to doubt the thing. I mean, this is not a guy you would want to put a lot of pressure on so….
I - I don't know.
I'm puzzled.
And I offer it as an unsolved puzzle."
Terence McKenna
"Chaos is a state where information can exist, but where it does not exist."
Aryeh Kaplan
Our physical body is the extension of a billion year system of order called DNA. DNA is a communication system intent on impregnating the future with the past through a novelty conserving game of elemental telephone. One of the most complex products of this game is an organ of matter called brain, a physical computer capable of executing billions of actions every second, each decision intimately related to the scope of an entire physical body.
The human brain, along with that of the dolphin, are two of the most prominent examples of this.
The human brain, along with that of the dolphin, are two of the most prominent examples of this.
A specific and recent extension of the human brain is the human neocortex (Latin for "new bark"), a six-layered membrane responsible for language, conscious thought, unconscious thought, dreaming, spatial reasoning, sensory perception, and the generation of motor commands. Not only is it capable of perception and projection, it is capable of simultaneous perception and projection. It is the observer as well as the observed, the engraver and the engraved. It creates as it destroys.
I believe that it is the neocortex that is the sole/soul biological membrane that is in direct contact with Mind/God/TAO/non-locality. It is through this connection that the silent, seamless, and ordered system of DNA is finally questioned and brought into doubt.
Is the complex reality of physical existence radically dis-ordered? Or is it ordered by the divine?
Are we drowning in blind chaos? Or are we swimming amidst perfection?
"From above to below we know. But from below to above we do not know"
I nominate the six-layered Rubix Cube as an externalized representation of the human neocortex independently removed from its bio-physical firmament. An externalized model, the Rubix Cube gives us a chance to visualize and interact with the Bridge between brain and Mind, and a chance to understand why some brains seem to be more in contact with Mind than others. Why some brains remain in contact with Mind.
If the standard brain has a knowledge of the permutations of the Cube, it can gradually develop an understanding of how to arrive at certain specific permutations. Brain can then begin to develop a stronger connection to Mind. A deeper connection to Mind. A connection capable of handling a flood of wisdom, if that flood should happen to occur.
If the standard brain has a knowledge of the permutations of the Cube, it can gradually develop an understanding of how to arrive at certain specific permutations. Brain can then begin to develop a stronger connection to Mind. A deeper connection to Mind. A connection capable of handling a flood of wisdom, if that flood should happen to occur.
"I preached here earlier that you mustn't seek closure
and so I don't with this.
If it's a communication, it's a very curious communication. If it is non-communication, it's even more curious. If it's a delusion, why is it so mathematically formal? If I'm pathological, why aren't there attendant sequelae? Why just this very defined thing?
The whole thing smacks of the impossible. It's even pushed me towards the idea that maybe this is not actually a reality. We're trapped, or I'm trapped. I don't know if you're trapped, but we're in some kind of piece of fiction. It's like a Philip K. Dick deal, you know, some kind of simulacrum, and the clue to the fact that it's a simulacrum is this impossible idea, and so the point of the idea is not to believe it, but to use it as a wedge to fight our way out of this labyrinth and back to whatever reality we were in before we fell in to this situation. Something like that.
Anyway I have the feeling that I'm blathering and spinning my wheels…"
Terence McKenna