Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science)
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:19:29 -0500
Date sent: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dylan Durst <ddurst@levien.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science)
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> > > At the level that we view 'evolution' (your definition), I would say
> > > that you are correct. However, as everyone I know will agree, recursion is
> > > weird. Who is to say that our minds our at the bottom of the stack in
> > > 'self-awareness'?
> > >
> > Our conscious minds are the tip of the iceberg that breaks the
> > waterskin; we are unaware of most of our cognitive processing.
>
> Agreed. But that still does not awnser my question. You are looking at
> what is on top of our 'conscious' minds (all the details, breath, motor
> control, depression), I'm curious to know what is below us on the stack.
> What our recursive minds are subproblems of.
>
Once something becomes routine with us we lose awareness of it;
it becomes subliminal. Our attention and intention is focused on
the novel and the pivotal; the rest is absorbed beneath our level of
awareness and notice. All the correlations of action with
perception we learned as infants, how to reach for what we see,
how to follow a moving object, even how to focus our eyes or turn
them toward the calculated source of a sound, how to shape our
mouths to shape our words, and how to coordinate various
muscular movements so that they may summate in a smoothness
of action, all these we had to learn, and we learned them so well
that we no longer have to think of HOW to do them, just TO do
them; they have become habits, routines, the performance of which
occurs subliminally, automatically, while we consider not their
processes but our goals
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> - dylan
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