I wrote a comment on the fb post for a blog entry on Qualiacomputing. It is written by one Andrés Gomez Emilsson. Maybe he's very famous now that you're reading this, but for now only so so.
So this man Andrés is one of the founders of the Stanford Transhumanist Association, and he claims to be an abolitionist. (A person in favor of absolutely eliminating suffering from reality, even through genetic modification of carnivores).
And he wrote this piece "Algorithmic Reduction of Psychedelic States"
https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/06/20/algorithmic-reduction-of-psychedelic-states/
And I personally think it suffers from lack of clarity, and possibli emotional entanglement.
Moreover, the said Mr. Gomez sometimes claims to believe in Open Individualism and sometimes in Empty Individualism. I don't feel like typing it up now but it should be more or less apparent that these viewpoints on personal identity are strongly at odds with book burning.
The point is, I made a couple of comments on the fb post about his blog entry, and they seem to have been deleted.
I copy them out of my activity log, and paste them here for you, dear posterity, that you might more easily make clear exactly what paths the mind wandered through in these troubled times.
The comment after the signoff refers to his term "Introspectoscope."
Without further ado, here's the said comments.
I will write more in depth about this, but briefly:
I am forced to believe you can't really tell between perception and consciousness.
This makes me wonder if maybe you equate thinking to calculating
(computational psychology would indeed sound like heaven on earth to any hypothetical subject suffering from that particular confusion.)
Also, archetypes and thought fields do not belong in the list of "acid head's pet theories.
What is the difference between you and what you seemingly despectively call an "acid head"? number of books read? how do you know there is not a few "acid heads" better informed than you? Maybe in the higher regions of the IQ spectrum it becomes clear just how Stanford killed your soul, and what it is. (unfalsifiable by you by definition)
I suspect the real difference as you perceive it between "an acid head's pet theory" and the more or less confused jumble of words in your mind is MONEY manifested as status, or status, backed by money. In this way you are serving the god Mammon, and not Love.
Maybe it's my own narcissism, but that paragraph does indeed feel like you went out of your way to score a point off me.
Thank you in advance for your equanimous reception of my thoughts and feelings. In jedi brotherhood and abolitionist love
Carlos
Oh and the roots "specto" and "scopein" are redundant, btw. You just maybe don't realize it because of a deficiency in latin and greek. I would advise you to study a little more of that.
Endoscope does it. all greek. But if you dont want people to confuse it with the thing for looking into the gut, lets call it a Noo-scope or a psycho-endo-scope.
Endoscope does it. all greek. But if you dont want people to confuse it with the thing for looking into the gut, lets call it a Noo-scope or a psycho-endo-scope.
