Neurological Relativism and Time-binding

An interview with Robert Anton Wilson
All of the following information in this description was taken from:
http://time-binding.org/index.php/discov/gsemantics/basicun.html

Time-binding: 1. Only humans have demonstrated the capability to build on the knowledge of prior generations.
2. Alfred Korzybski referred to this capability as time-binding. Language serves as the principle tool that facilitates time-binding.
3. Time-binding forms the basis for an ethical standard by which to evaluate human behavior; does the behavior advance time-binding and human progress based on what is known at the time, or does it deny time-binding?
4. Acknowledging our time-binding inheritance dispels us of the "self-made" notion; as we understand how much we owe to others, we begin to understand our own limitations.

Abstracting and Evaluating ("Behavior Awareness"): 1. Our awareness of "what goes on" outside of our skin, is not "what is going on"; our awareness of our experience is not the silent, first-order, neurological experience.
2. As human organisms, we have limits as to what we can experience through our senses. Given these limitations, we can never experience 'all' of what's 'out there' to experience.
3. Given our ever-changing environment (which includes ourselves, and our awareness of ourselves), we never experience the 'same' person, event, situation, 'thing', experience, etc., more than once.
4. To the degree that our reactions and responses to all forms of stimuli are automatic, or conditioned, we copy animals, like Pavlov's dog. To the degree that our reactions and responses are more controlled, delayed, or conditional to the given situation, we exhibit our uniquely-human capabilities.
5. We each experience "what's out there" uniquely, according to our individual sensory capabilities, our past experiences and conditioning. We do well to maintain an attitude of "to-me-ness" in our evaluations of our own behavior, as well as in our evaluations of others' behavior.

Sensory Awareness (nonverbal): 1. We actually 'experience' our daily living on the silent, non-verbal levels; in other words, on a physiological-neurological level different from our verbal awareness.
2. Our ability to experience the world outside our skins is relative, unique to our own individual organism's capabilities.
3. Our language habits can affect our organism's behavior; we can allow what we see, hear, say, etc., to affect our blood pressure, pulse, rate of breathing, etc.
4. As we become more aware of our own non-verbal behaviors, we can practice techniques to achieve greater degrees of relaxation, less stress, greater sense of our environment, etc.

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[kezmo52]

i read science and sanity in 1975 while i was quite often high on pot.

i had to stop once because i became acutely aware of my neural synapses being reconfigured.

that book has shaped my life since then...

[discordian420]

@kezmo52

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Have you ever read Robert Anton Wilson?

[Herbarius]

STOP ACTA!

[ANDROID697]

I'm currently reading A.K. Science & sanity. It's tough reading but it will change your life. But also Bhakti yoga described in Krishna's teachings the ancient Vedas and Vedanta srutas, is the original source material on how to change your consciousness to its nature blissful state. Using NON-aristotilian logic-YOGA.

We in the west have been kept in the dark and its no accident, the Vatican have programed the west into Aristolilian thinking to inprison the mind.

Be free of mind!

[niriop]

I wonder if a phenomenological materialism is possible

[pchalas]

Praise be to Bob :)

[thesunshon]

I AGREE WITH ALOT OF THIS!

[thesunshon]

@ChuckNorrisKratosLOL DIDO LOL



[ex0gen]

@meadorni I agree with this completely and hold the same view. however, there must be something universal to "reality" if we addopt the anti-realist stance. what I am saying about this video is that he seams to me to be "sliding" in realism to account for NR via the idea that the "brain" creates experience. that is he seams to be taking a reductionistic stance that allows for an epiphenonenalism which in his view gives way to NR.

[ex0gen]

@meadorni I understand the copenhagan interpretation.

[meadorni]

@ex0gen But also, the objective reality we perceive is modeled in a unique way by our mind as we input sensory information. And quantum mechanics tells us that matter shows properties of both particle and wave, even though we perceive it as particle (solid, liquid, gas). Whatever "objective" realm exists, we assign it properties that don't exist in themselves. Search "reality sandwich downward" for my essay on the subject. I also recommend searching "copenhagen interpretation."

[meadorni]

@ex0gen Speaking of Bucky Fuller, he said that universe is "non-simultaneous, non-identical, and only partially overlapping" (and RAW quoted that elsewhere in this interview). And as RAW would have said, there does SEEM TO BE an objective reality—but it's not the only reality. To me neurological relativism (which I think is functionally equivalent to subjectivism) says there are at least as many realities as there are conscious minds.