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I Sing The Body Electric
This nOde last updated March 22nd, 2005 and is permanently morphing...
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In his poem "I sing the body electric,"
Walt Whitman gave voice to the opposite tendency in the electromagnetic imagination.
For Whitman, electric life meant the erotic life, and his love of bodies, his
desire to "charge them full with the charge of the soul," only led him to embrace
the most exuberant of heresies: that the body was the soul. Unlike the mesmerists,
who pointed to the new technology of photography as proof thtat the physical
world was really made up of the mental vibrations of light,
Whitman recognized that the vital spirit of electromagnetism - with its lightning
strikes of charge, its dynamic polariities and visceral attractions - was more
a language
of Eros than a mantra
of transcendence. After all, Mesmer's original magnetic techniques had
nothing to do with the inner planes, and everything to do with stoking the convulsive
life of desire in order to heal real bodies.
- Erik Davis - _Techgnosis:
Myth, Magic
& Mysticism In the Age Of Information_
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The rule of thumb is that
consciousness manages 7 +/- 2 chunks of data at a time.
How that figure is arrived at I don't know, but the idea behind it is expressed
in Marvin Minsky's (MIT)
_A Society of Mind_. Consciousness occurs at all levels of our body, traces
of brain matter are found throughout our entire system, awareness occurs
from trillions of points of "experience"...much of this happening outside
of waking consciousness. At this moment
rillions of neural and muscular firings are occurring orchestrating a complex network
of articulated "activity" and hopefully, "thinking" all operating in a
sort of "specialized environmental awareness" (I am not cognizant of the
twitching of my right foot until consciousness is directed there). So there
is a lot of empirical and anecdotal data concerning limitations in conscious
awareness, as opposed to the vast sea of data management occurring at the
unconscious level all the time.
A variation on the quantum
model of consciousness looks a lot like the spiritual model of consciousness.
It is theorized in some circles that "thought" doesn't originate in the brain.
Brain cells and their shaping of "liquid" within them, suggests those cells
potentially could serve as transmitters and receivers. These could process
"subtle energy" transmissions in a "scalar" of thought which would shape our
thinking. This sort of follows the model of body/soul in many religious circles.
I think it was Becker (sp?) the author of "The Body Electric" who discovered
a battery-like
current in the human body that acted as a sort of pre-firing mechanism. Microseconds
before the complex "dance"
of neural and muscular activity it takes to move an arm, "something" outside
of consciousness has dictated that movement...a sort of "over soul". I believe
this "over soul" is introduced to us in hypnosis. Watching a hypnotic subject
one observes a "stranger" now in control of the hypnotized person. This possessing
spirit moves stiffly, slowly, does not distinguish subtleties of language
and yet when properly addressed...can alter our very DNA...
or raise burn welts from the touch of a cool eraser tip...it is that powerful.
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by Inigo Kennedy off of _The Bigger Picture_ 12"x2 on Missile #003 (2001)
by Elite Force
off of _No Turning Back_ 12" on Whole Nine Yards #030 (2003) wave
synth pop track _Are 'Friends' Electric?_ MP3
by Tubeway Army off of _Replicas_ 12" on Beggars Banquet (1979)hardcore
punk release _We Sing The Body Electric_ by Sincebyman on Revelation (2003)
Fuse
Get Away_ MP3 (192k)
by Mathlete off of _Lincolnwood Tech_ on Blackbean (2000)
by Rush
off of _Grace Under Pressure_ (1984)
of _The
Twilight Zone_ Veronica
Cartwright
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