Prelim notes: Michaux, research, tank, papers
Floating on Non Euclidean Numbers
if in the white noise introduced by LSD-25 Lilly can “hear God”,
it is a non euclidean god subject to sudden transformation and dissipation. Mathematician Brian Rotman, in his discussion of “counting on non eucldean fingers”
From White Noise to Birdsong: Valis and the Immanence of Biological Order
"The idea had occurred to me that maybe what we see is not real. That it is somehow - I don't know what the alternative for 'real' is... There's a state of things being semi-real."
Who is this One? "Basic Effects of LSD25 on the Biocomputer:
Noise as the Basic Energy for
Projection Techniques
In the analysis of the effects of LSD25 on the human mind, a reasonable hypothesis states that the effect of these substances on the human computer is to introduce white noise (in the sense of randomly varying energy containing no signals of itself) in specific systems in the computer. These systems and the partition of the noise among them vary with concentration of substance and with the substance used.
One can thus "explain" the apparent speedup of subjective time; the enhancement of colors and detail in perceptions of the real world; the production of illusions; the freedom to make new programs; the appearance of visual projections onto mirror images of the real face and body; the projections and apparent depth in colored and in blackandwhite photos; the projection of emotional expression onto other real persons; the synesthesia of music to visual projections; the feeling of "oneness with the universe"; apparent ESP effects; communications from "beings other than humans"; the lowered Clozeanalysis scores by outside scorers; the clinical judgment of the outside observer of dissociation psychosis, depersonalization, hallucination, and delusion in regard to the subject; the apparent increased muscular strength, and the dissolution and rebuilding of programs and metaprograms by self and by the outside therapist, etc.
The increase in white noise energy allows quick and random access to memory and lowers the threshold to unconscious memories (expansion of consciousness). In such noise one can
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project almost anything at almost any cognitive level in almost any allowable mode: one dramatic example is the conviction of some subjects of hearingseeingfeeling God, when "way out." One projects one's expectations of God onto the white noise as if the noise were signals; one bears the voice of God in the Noise. With a bit of proper programming under the right conditions, with the right dose, at the right time, one can program almost anything into the noise within one's cognitive limits; the limits are only one's own conceptual limits, including limits set by one's repressed, inhibited, and forbidden areas of thought. The latter can be analyzed and freed up using the energy of the white noise in the service of the ego, i.e., a metaprogram analyze yourself can be part of the instructions to be carried out in the LSD25 state.
The noise introduced brings a certain amount of disorder with it, even as white noise in the physical world brings randomness. However, the LSD25 noise randomizes signals only in a limited way: not enough to destroy all order, only enough to superimpose a small creative "jiggling" on program materials and metaprograms and their signals. This noisy component added to the usual signals in the circuits adds enough uncertainty to the meanings to make new interpretations more probable. If the noise becomes too intense, one might expect it to wipe out information and lead to unconsciousness (at very high levels, death).
The major operative principle seems to be that the human computer operates in such a way as to make signals out of noise and thus to create information out of random energies where there was no signal; this is the "projection principle"; noise is creatively used in nonnoise models. The information "created" from the noise can be shown by careful analysis to have been in the storage system of the computer, i.e., the operation of projection moves information out of storage into the perception apparatus so that it appears to originate in the chosen "outside" noisily excited system."
Lilly wanted to share the remarkable experiences with other researchers, and with the help of Stuart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, a mimeograph version of the report of his investigations of LSD-25 and the sensory deprivation tank Lilly had pioneered made the rounds as samistadt science. Yet it was very much as a snap shot of a moment for Lilly, written by another iteration of himself:
It seems as if this older work is a seminating source for other works and solidly resists revision. To me it is a thing separate from me, a record from a past space, a doorway into new spaces through which I passed and cannot return.
The mimeographed report from inner space
From Serial to paralle
Here language becomes less the space of shared information than the formation of a commons – one forms a bond in a disributed subjectivity:
In a wellorganized biocomputer, there is at least one such critical control metaprogram labeled I for acting on other metaprograms and labeled me when acted upon by other metaprograms. I say at least one advisedly. Most of us have several controllers, selves, selfmetaprograms which divide control among them, either in time parallel or in time series in sequences of control. As I will give in detail later, one path for selfdevelopment is to centralize control of one's biocomputer in one selfmetaprogrammer, making the others into conscious executives subordinate to the single administrator, the single superconscient selfmetaprogrammer. With appropriate methods, this centralizing of control, the elementary unification operation, is a realizable state for many, if not all biocomputers.
Going parallel and post normal science
This work is a summary of a current position in progress to try to attain objectivity and impartiality with respect to the innermost realities.
If one takes a naturally occurring, thinking mind and obtains a sufficiently large sample of its thinking, one can have a metatheoretical faith that one can then find the basic beliefs and their origins. I am not too sure that such metatheoretical faith in one's ability to adequately observe, adequately record, and adequately analyze mental events and construct them into logical explanations is warranted.
In other words, we should experiment with all of the vast parameters in which we have evolved and their variations in order to seek optimal survival values of these for the embryo, fetuses and children who do not survive under our peculiarly narrow range of values of these parameters. To change lethals to optimals seems possible and even probable with imaginative and thorough research.
Tat Tvam Asi: Thou art that (thing that makes order out of noise)
reading from Dick, P.K. 58-61, The Divine Invasion, "Just Thinking' an Spiraled Anamneusis
Darwin's Intoxicated Gaze; Macaw House and the double entry book-keeping of sexual selection
Tuning into Ecodelia: Why we are wired for ecstasis. And how!**
the animal model - cedar waxwing, gorilla, etc
law of battle versus law of charm - darwin's own seduction
[www.nu.ac.za/undphil/collier/papers/order.pdf Order from Rhythmic Entrainment] - Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts
Eloquence as Exergy Adjunct? Glimpsing the Peacock Angel
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