Daniel Tammet(savant) & the power of Perception

[The Hundredth Idiot]

From Technofascismblog:

"If you've never heard of Daniel Tammet before, its probably because our mainstream press tends to focus on trivialities so much that the truly amazing stories go mostly unnoticed."

http://www.technofascismblog.com/category/off-topic

Well worth a look!

[Sounder]

It’s a shame that so much of intelligence is directed toward social integration purposes. The result is a kind of mass hypnosis that I have come to term the mutual blackmail society. As long as intelligence is measured by ones peers and social conformity, nine tenths of the power of ones psyche will remain dormant. This limiter within consciousness can be assigned to the fixed principle or using a more dramatic term Ahriman, and is representative of our intellectual structures (that we are so proud of) and their inhibiting effect on the development of consciousness. It's key to note that Daniel is not calculating or 'doing the math', instead he is seeing the numbers without any 'intellectual' understanding in regard to how the numbers appear within his psychical field of vision. Intellect is overrated.

Ahh but never mind, these notions seem to be no more than a tennis ball thrown at a brick wall.

I did like Daniel’s Las Vegas story where he gave up on the counting and then won with an improbable intuition.

[The Hundredth Idiot]

Cheers for that, I couldn't agree more.

Quote:"Besides providing us with the ability to code data outside the confines of DNA, cognitive activities allow us to transmit information across space and time. At first this amounted merely to the ability to shout a warning or a command, really little more than a modification of the cry of alarm that is a familiar feature of the behaviour of social animals. Over the course of human history this impulse to communicate has motivated the elaboration of ever more effective communication techniques.
But by our century, this basic ability has turned into the all-pervasive communications media, which literally engulf the space surrounding our planet. The planet swims through a self-generated ocean of messages. Telephone calls, data-exchanges, and electronically transmitted entertainment create an invisible world experienced as global informational simultaniety.
We think nothing of this; as a culture we take it for granted." -Terence McKenna(Food of the Gods)

'Eyes are Open' - http://www.mearone.tumblr.com/post/2110348363/eyes-are-open

[Sounder]

Thanks idiot, it feels great to be able to call someone ‘idiot’ and not be offensive in doing it. Good find on this poem, (or did you write it?)

Compare„„„„, you thought all your hard work would pay off

Compare„„„„, A persons whole being dismembered such there whole world burnt ember-ed.

One thing I notice while observing people in the (big) city, is how often they project an air of living their life below their ‘natural’ station. I want to tell these folk that they could be much happier if they found a new measure for ‘success’. Unfortunately the dominant message in this reality TV culture is that duplicitous behavior is the sure path to success and players lacking commitment to this will be terminated. Any sane person can agree that this is probably not the best motive or method for the organization of information.

What is life in the hands of few in control of many,

whereas this world could be a place where the inner life, in all its variations, is respected for its creative potential.

in a false profit we trust our bounty to be plenty,

And yet while we Know this cannot endure, still we march on.

still lacking the evolving question.

What can we do to improve the distribution system for that which truly provides for our sustenance? Can our perceptual processing structures, (concepts) be re-formed so as to provide a more horizontal distribution of information? (Sustenance derives from how we organize information rather than from the information itself, more is not better.) Our current vertically oriented distribution system will tip when it gets too top heavy. Could we possibly catch it as it falls, or must it crash as so many people believe?

Does thinking that we can catch the fall make me a fool or naïve?

Here I remain anyway, with faith in the creative power of psyche.

The Holy Ghost which must never be blasphemed.

Oh and how is it that 250,000 pages of gossip is going to help this situation?

[The Hundredth Idiot]

Good find on this poem, (or did you write it?)

No, not my work. http://www.mearone.com Just one of my favorite artists of these times, the dudes a legend-amazing artwork, knowledge and ethic.

whereas this world could be a place where the inner life, in all its variations, is respected for its creative potential

Agreed. McKenna on the Archaic revival: "It is in the archaic revival that our transcendence of the historical dilemma actually lies. There is something more. It is now clear that new developments in many areas-including mind-machine interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, and data-storage, imaging, and retrieval techniques-are coalescing into the potential for a truly demonic or an angelic self-imaging of our culture. Those who are on the demonic side of this process are fully aware of this potential and are hurrying full tilt forward with their plans to capture the technological high ground. It is a position from which they hope to turn nearly everyone into a believing consumer in a beige fascism from whose image factory none will escape.
The shamanic response, the Archaic response, the human response, to this situation should be to locate the art pedal and push it to the floor. This is one of the primary functions of shamanism, and is the function that is tremendously synergized by the psychedelics. If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausable, beautiful and self-fulfilling ways.
If we are serious about an archaic revival, then we need a new paradigmatic image that can take us rapidly forward and through the historical choke-point that we can feel resisting a more expansive, more humane, more caring dimension that is insisting on being born.
Our sense of political obligation, of the need to reform or save the collective soul of humanity, our wish to connect the end of history with the beginning of history-all of this should impel us to look at shamanism as an exemplary model. In the current global crisis we cannot fail to take its techniques seriously, even those which may challenge the divinely ordained covenants of the constabulary."

"What can we do to improve the distribution system for that which truly provides for our sustenance? Can our perceptual processing structures, (concepts) be re-formed so as to provide a more horizontal distribution of information? (Sustenance derives from how we organize information rather than from the information itself, more is not better.)

Not sure I have an answer that will do those questions justice, but if concepts can be formed they can be reformed, everything is muteable to a degree.
As far as catching it as it fall's, anything is possible, it aint over till its over. I liken the times to an elastic band, stretch things too far in any one direction and the backlash is gonna sting like a bitch.

Yeah, 250,000 pages of gossip doesnt seem to be helping anyone, a blinding flash from another facet of the Panopticon of our times.

[Sounder]

I do feel a need to question the effects of my own pretense that the way we organize information is more important than is information itself. Who knows where the information will come from that will catalyze the growth of ‘global political awareness’ and begin to effect new arrangements of our information? I like the Andrew Gavin Marshall article and the notion that we have to use the tools at hand as best we can so as to contribute to more widespread development of perspectives.

Wikileaks is creating the potential for an enormous deterioration in the effectiveness of imperialism and domination. That, in itself, is an admirable and worthy goal. That this is already a reality is representative of how truly transformative Wikileaks is and could be. People, globally, are starting to see their leaders through a lens not filtered by ‘public relations.’ Through mainstream media, it gets filtered through propaganda, which is why it is an essential duty of the alternative media and critical thinkers to place this information in a wider, comprehensive context. This would further erode the effectiveness of empire.

True change, instead, can only come not from global power structures, but from the global ‘community’ of people, interacting with one another via the power unleashed by the ‘Technological Revolution.’ Change must be globally understood and community organized.

[Belligerent Savant]

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The closest thread title pertinent to the below. An interesting thought experiment in these times.

Impressive experiment! Scientists call it the "Rubber Hand Illusion". What does it show and why is it important?

Scientists use the trick with a fake hand to explore how the mind reacts to body ownership. When visual information (seeing the rubber hand being stroked) conflicts with tactile information (feeling but not seeing one's own hand being stroked), the brain trusts what it sees over what it feels.

It is fascinating how the human brain can be easily deceived. The same happens with cognitive biases when we make decisions. What we see, think, or feel does not necessarily reflect the reality.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascalbo ... esktop_web