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"...the abolition of poverty, the
economy of abundance for all, the end of territorial competition for limited
resources leading to the warfare cycle, the achievement of longevity and eventual
immortality
- all these are appreciably increased by the appearance of a totally new phenomenon
in human life; indeed, a phenomenon so new we hardly have a name for it.
Dr.
Leary uses the symbol I2 (intelligence squared) to represent this new
evolutionary
factor; it stands for intelligence studying intelligence, the
nervous
system studying the nervous system. Dr. John Lilly refers to it as
the self-metaprogrammer, the human brain
feeding
back self-change directions to the human brain scientifically.
In simple
language,
man is graduating from being the conditioned animal in the behaviorist cage
to becoming whatever he wills to become.
Electrical
brain stimulation opens other doors to self-metaprogramming. New drugs
are predicted that will allow us to foster or terminate emotional states of
many kinds. Like the incremental advance from longevity to immortality,
this opens a whole new ball game. As Leary points out, "The more conscious
and intelligent you become, the more you want to become even more conscious
and intelligent." Until now, we have never come close to understanding
the self-teaching capabilities of the human brain. It is possible, and
not unlikely, that even such geniuses as
Da
Vinci,
Beethoven,
or
Einstein
are only partial foreshadowings of what the turned-on brain can do."
-
Robert
Anton Wilson - _The
Illumanti
Papers_
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One of the primary features of the
psychedelic experience as it relates to the human computer hardware, believes
Ron Lawrence, a Macintosh expert from
Los
Angeles who archives Tim Leary's writing, is that it "reformats the hard
disk and clears out the ram.'' That is, one's experience of life is reevalutated
in an egoless context and put into a new order. One sees previously unrecognizable
connections between parallel ways of thinking, parallel cultures, ideologies,
stories, systems of logic, and philosophies. Meanwhile, trivial cares of the
moment are given the opportunity to melt away (even if in the gut-wrenching
crucible of
intense
introspection), and the tripper may reenter everyday life without many of the
cognitive traps that previously dominated his interpretation of
reality.
In other words, the tripper gains the ability to see things in an unprejudiced
manner, like the computer does.
- Douglas Rushkoff - _Cyberia:
Life In The Trenches Of Hyperspace_
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