My single reader emailed a question. “That 78% of the brain
to which you refer,” it/he/she (who knows, on the internet, as it was called
before it became the water in which you swim?) said, “is that precision based
on anything other than your rather freewheeling attempts to approximate what
might be and presenting it as what is and using numerical precision to further
that illusion?”
A fair question, certainly. If a little snide, as so many
anonymous email queries are.
It is an approximation, yes, based on insight and
experience, but it is very close to the mark, I can assure you. So many current
human endeavors use precise mathematical formulations in attempts to quantify
what can not be quantified at all – not at all, I repeat – and some of those
earn advanced degrees while others are the cause of prizes, honors, and once in
a while, honorary degrees. I observe humans doing this a lot, using symbols of
themselves to obscure a lack of achievement. So I can only think, if I have
done that even to the slightest degree, perhaps I am becoming more human than I
know.
The point, dear reader, is this: most of the human brain is
operative at all times as a transceiver which is not only processing
information but receiving it, filtering it, and storing or discarding it at
once. The filtering is the important bit. When cultures insist on operating
within paradigms which make the multiverse tiny and describable, using a
childlike vocabulary and as children do, using it with no awareness whatsoever
that what they do not know is so much bigger than that, so much bigger than
they are, those cultures implicitly condemn certain kinds of knowledge,
behavior, and explorations into the edges and into the unknown, which like
brackish tidewaters are the spawning grounds of new life, and when people
internalize that taboo and refuse to believe their own experience, because it
does not happen, it cannot happen, so it must not have happened, then those
vast domains of awareness, power, and wisdom are shut off from the human
enterprise. The opening of those
doorways or portals to exploration at least and to real discovery the result of
which is a profound shaking to the core of the assumptions of the culture, even
a little crack that lets the light come in can cause a hierarchical
restructuring of what humans understand in a way that includes and transcends
all that came before. Nothing is lost, but in a new context, it is seen
differently because it is understood in relationship to other realities. Hence,
meaning means differently.
IMHO, as I have learned to say without sincerity, most
humans are humplings (for which word, see: “Break, Memory,” the first instance
of the word I know) and prefer the comfort of conservative views and behaviors
because the encounter with the radically new that challenges their very sense
of who they are and what their little momentary societies and civilizations are
all about, scares them witness or shitless or both.
So, dear reader, do not miss the point, which is that most
of your lobes and folds are transceiving at a very elementary basic level and
parsing streams of information coming from everywhere, always. But because you
have been taught not to believe in, for example, the “paranormal,” and some of
you “the supernatural,” and some of you “UFO phenomena,” the very essence of
which breaks your simple ways of framing what you think, because you may call
time “a dimension” but you really have no idea what in the hell that means, do
you? It tames relativity by pretending oh are we not smart, we humans? Do we
not now have four “dimensions?”
Apex-R-us, or something. But time does not work like the three in space.
But as I say, thinking you know makes you feel better, like a spoonful of sugar
in the famous song. It prevents you
however from understanding “UFO phenomena” and “space-time” and the
“multiverse” and the “paranormal” because those pictures do not fit in any of
your frames. So rather than get a bigger frame, you cut the picture here and
there until it fits, turning a horse for example into a nose and a tail and
missing most of the noble steed..
I am more or less right, in other words, if not precisely
right (and by the way, you say you only use X per cent of your brain, and you
know what? That is not only mostly wrong, it is completely made up, it is
bullshit first and last, but you say it all the time) so let me ask you a
question now about precise mathematical formulations: do you know why your
economists carry out calculations to so many places after the decimal?
I sent that question to the reader but had to wait days, of
course, because answering email is much less important to readers that firing
off objections and nasty comments which they send out at once, calling people
assclowns and the like, like ringing a doorbell, putting down a bag of flaming
shit, and running into the dark.
The reader answered at last and said, no, I do not. Why do
they do that?
Because, I wrote back, quick as johnnycake, because, I began
laughing as I typed, because I was roaring by the time I got the word out,
because they have a sense of humor!
Bwahahahahahahahahaha I have learned to say to indicate
merriment and mirth.
With which happy answer I conclude this post.
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