Fw:The Human Biocomputer

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- Gary Merrill

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Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:50 AM

[ConsciousnessIsAll] The Human Biocomputer

>From what has been said about the nature of identity, or

rathernon-identity, there is perhaps reason to reflect upon the

nature ofthe mind as being a mechanism. No independent self/actor.

What advaitacalls the body mind without a doer.Another interesting

take on this is that first stated by John Lilly inhis book 'The Human

Biocomputer'. Here are a few snippets from this for ourbiocomputers to

feed upon :-)"All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the

world todayare programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our

own nature asprogrammable entities. Literally, each of us may be our

programs,nothing more, nothing less.""When one learns to learn, one

is making models, using symbols,analogizing, making metaphors, in

short, inventing and using language,mathematics, art, politics,

business, etc. At the critical brain(cortex) size, languages and it

consequences appear."To avoid the necessity of repeating 'learning to

learn', 'symbols','metaphors', 'models' each time, I symbolise the

underlying idea inthese operations as 'metaprogramming'.

Metaprogramming appears at acritical cortical size - the cerebral

computer must have a largeenough number of integrated circuits of

sufficient quality for theoperations of metaprogramming to exist in

that biocomputer.""Such uses of one's own biocomputer as the above

can teach one profoundtruths about one's self, one's capabilities.

The resulting states ofbeing, of consciousness, teach one the basic

truth about one's ownequipment as follows: In the province

of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes

true, within certain limits to be found experientially and

experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be

transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.'In the province of the

mind' is the region of one's models, of thealone self, of memory, of

the metaprograms......""The mind is the sum of the programs and

metaprograms, ie the softwareof the human computer""The

'consciousness program' itself is expandable and contractablewithin

the computer's structure within certain limits. In coma, thisprogram

is very nearly inoperative; in ordinary states of awareness itneeds a

fair fraction of the machinery to function. In expanded statesof

consciousness the fraction of the total computer devoted to

itsoperation expands to a large

value."Love,Garygary (AT) consciousness (DOT) freeserve.co.ukConsciousnessIsAll