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CONSCIOUSNESS Man & Machine? |
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CONSCIOUSNESS
Man & Machine?
By Eldon Taylor
A popular idea now-a-days is the notion of the ghost in the machine. From scientific articles to entertainment, this reference is to the idea of consciousness. Once again, the study of consciousness is occupying the minds of science and science fiction.
Just after the turn of the century, science basically abandoned the study of consciousness per se' on the grounds that it was too ambiguous and non-quantifiable. However, the development of artificial intelligence, so-called thinking computers, interactive virtual reality environments and non-local action, or action at a distance, has placed the study of consciousness in the fore front of many minds.
What is consciousness? This issue is devoted to some of the intrigue involved in efforts to create "thinking machines" modeled after man, minus of course, his limitations.
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Equipment Responding To Consciousness? |
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Equipment Responding To Consciousness?Most people report a relationship with some piece of equipment or machinery during their lifetimes. Often the item of the most intense feeling is one's automobile. For many, feelings ranging from contempt to passionate attachment are familiar memories easily elicited with just a brief reflection on their experience with a variety of equipment.
For myself, of course I experienced a teenage love for my automobile. However, when I think of the thought interaction possibilities with a mechanical device, it is my first IBM clone that comes to mind. My XTC soon became to me, my Ecstacy. This wonderful device seemed to respond to my desires and often gave others fits. Ah, you say, wishful thinking.
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Geometry: An Archetypal Form of Communication |
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Geometry: An Archetypal Form of Communication
The Picture of Sound
Years ago I noticed an uncanny correlation between mantras and mandalas. A mandala is the picture or symbol of an event or focus of worship, such as the Star of Bethlehem, and a mantra is a sound usually intoned for centering and contact such as ohm. When Handel wrote his classical Messiah, it was to celebrate the birth and life of Christ. When the hallelujah chorus is sung, a perfect five pointed star or Star of Bethlehem is produced. Did Handel knowingly create the music for this purpose? I don't believe so. Still, somehow he tapped into a form, a geometry, and intuited music that represented the geometry.
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Owning Your Own Controls
(from an audio tape script)
By Eldon Taylor, Ph.D.
What makes the difference between two children raised in the same environment with the same parents when one ends up a neuro-surgeon and the other a hardened violent criminal? What makes the difference between two patients suffering in a hospice center from identical conditions when one requires very little medication and is liked by all, while the other suffers bitterly regardless of the medication and no one really wants to be around them? What are the subtle differences that seem to allow one person to live a certain life style free of illness while another doing the same things becomes ill as a result? What defines a stimulus as stressful to one while the same exact stimulus is welcomed with excitement by another? The answer is so simple as to be overly obvious.
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The Seven Fundamentals of the Master Secret |
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The Seven Fundamentals of the Master Secret
Happiness is the Secret
by Eldon Taylor
What is success? Have you ever wondered why it is that for some, everything works, and for others, nothing works? Why is it that two people can have essentially the same opportunities, but one person be happy and the other one miserable? Is it not, therefore, happiness that constitutes the true meaning of success?
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