Friday, May 28, 2010
The Majority Rules.
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Reading this just now I 'get it' that the concept of 'subconscious' has become much too popularized. Everybody seems to know what it means, even psychologists and psychiatrists! Will wonders never cease. Hmm. Perhaps I should use the term, 'subcortical processes.' Would that work? Yep. Not only does that term explain exactly what I meant in the previous post, it describes the brain functions - especially in regard to memory - that I wanted to address: 'We' are - moment to moment - the sum of those processes. 'We' remain stable, moment to moment, so long as all subcortical processes are nourished in the usual way. Booze fucks things up.
To answer the question posed below, therefore: The Majority Rules. The Brain is Democratic.
The implications of that are enormous.
Those implications explain why drugs so powerfully influence behavior. Those implications explain why LSD works so well to transform human consciousness, producing in a single trip, changes which would have otherwise required more than a human lifetime. Day-to-day brain changes produce 'results' very, very, slowly, but a massive dose of LSD changes the brain significantly, probably because LSD seeps up beyond previous threshholds of inebriation. 'Boss' neuronal structures are affected. The brain 'disintegrates.' The 'mind' follows suit. Chaos results. As 'the mind' rebuilds itself - structure first - 'the tripper' is astonished, then mesmerized in a kind of 'religious awe.'
What has actually 'happened' is that there has been a 'presidential election.' The Tripper emerges a new citizen, with new ideas.
Reading this just now I 'get it' that the concept of 'subconscious' has become much too popularized. Everybody seems to know what it means, even psychologists and psychiatrists! Will wonders never cease. Hmm. Perhaps I should use the term, 'subcortical processes.' Would that work? Yep. Not only does that term explain exactly what I meant in the previous post, it describes the brain functions - especially in regard to memory - that I wanted to address: 'We' are - moment to moment - the sum of those processes. 'We' remain stable, moment to moment, so long as all subcortical processes are nourished in the usual way. Booze fucks things up.
To answer the question posed below, therefore: The Majority Rules. The Brain is Democratic.
The implications of that are enormous.
Those implications explain why drugs so powerfully influence behavior. Those implications explain why LSD works so well to transform human consciousness, producing in a single trip, changes which would have otherwise required more than a human lifetime. Day-to-day brain changes produce 'results' very, very, slowly, but a massive dose of LSD changes the brain significantly, probably because LSD seeps up beyond previous threshholds of inebriation. 'Boss' neuronal structures are affected. The brain 'disintegrates.' The 'mind' follows suit. Chaos results. As 'the mind' rebuilds itself - structure first - 'the tripper' is astonished, then mesmerized in a kind of 'religious awe.'
What has actually 'happened' is that there has been a 'presidential election.' The Tripper emerges a new citizen, with new ideas.
