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Originally posted by Electricneo
The State creates a structure of reality that becomes the consciousness
of the masses.
When you get to the level of truly thinking for yourself usually the person becomes creative as a bonus.
Originally posted by aleon1018
I find it hard to accept that someone who has spent so much time here on ATS and probably searched all of these related subjects, wouldn't be capable of drawing a better or more accurate theory. So, where or what's the mental block? The claim of being an atheist seems to be part of it. Maybe you're just a conspiracy writer using this as a lead story to provoke a response by like minded people or alleged nutjobs? (...fish jumps out of water to eat CGI)
Being a victim of government surveillance is also, arguably, better than being insane. In Waugh's novella based on his own painful experience, when Pinfold concludes that hidden technology is being used to infiltrate his brain, he "felt nothing but gratitude in his discovery." Why? "He might be unpopular; he might be ridiculous; but he was not mad."
In general, the outlook for TIs is not good; many lose their jobs, houses and family. Depression is common. But for many at the rally, experiencing the community of mind-control victims seems to help. One TI, a man who had been a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard before voices in his head sent him on a downward spiral, expressed the solace he found among fellow TIs in a long e-mail to another TI: "I think that the only people that can help are people going through the same thing. Everyone else will not believe you, or they are possibly involved."
The callers frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K -- the official military abbreviation stands for "voice to skull" and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head. In their esoteric lexicon, "gang stalking" refers to the belief that they are being followed and harassed: by neighbors, strangers or colleagues who are agents for the government.
Originally posted by Ian McLean
Originally posted by Electricneo
The State creates a structure of reality that becomes the consciousness
of the masses.
Well I want to know what country you live in, because where I'm at, 'the State' (US government) doesn't create much at all, except bureaucracy and a monopoly on the use of force . And as you mention, true creativity is an individual action.
I think my jargony use of the mathematical term 'state vector' was confusing. Sorry about that. A state vector is simply a list of measurements, like numbers, that describe a model. So, for example, if there's an implant connected between 4 neurons, measuring whether they're firing, and each neuron's firing 'state' can be represented as 0 or 1, the 'state vector' for the implant would be: [0,0,0,0] if none of the neurons are firing at a particular point in time, or [1,1,1,1] if they're all firing, or [0,0,0,1] if only the fourth one is firing. The data a passive implant would record would be a sequence of state vectors. There's no information (context) or functional correlation in the state vector, just data.
When you get to the level of truly thinking for yourself usually the person becomes creative as a bonus.
Interesting, because I just recently posted a little rant about this, that I was disappointed that no one responded to. But with something like this subject, really, too much creativity isn't desirable! I think what's needed is rational discussion, unconstrained by prejudice -- 'truly thinking for yourself' isn't exactly the best way to honestly listen to someone's experiences and try to understand and communicate about them.
Originally posted by Ian McLean
But each brain is different. No one has the same neural layout, and in fact individual neural significance can change over time. So how would such a device be intelligibly 'read' (if it were recording sensory input from the neural state vector it intercepts), or 'controlled' (if it were dynamically modifying neural activity)? I would guess that some type of calibration phase would be required to build the "neural state vector functional description" mapping.
Originally posted by Ian Mclean
But if the 'functional description' is something that is more internal, such as unvocalized speech (which is always mentally distinguishable from externally-heard speech), it's more complex.
Originally posted by Ian Mclean
Can you describe any experience like that? Perhaps where you heard internal sounds and were somehow compelled to parrot them externally? Or perhaps unintelligible internal became clearer over time as its effectiveness was externally measured?
Originally posted by Ian Mclean
The reason I'm asking is because the only way I can think of to move your claims beyond circumstantial and subjective is for there to be an objectively-measurable framework for the descriptions of the subjective experiences of those who claim to have been 'implanted'.
Originally posted by MemoryShock
I am curious as to how my answering of the 'parrot' question would communicate that I am not misinterpreting my subjective experience...
Originally posted by Ian McLean
That particular questions was exploring the idea of an implant injecting signal into the sound-recognition part of the brain, and a conditioned 'expression' response causing the individual to generate some measurable data ('parroting') which was then iterative used to refine the signal injection.
More comments later after a I read some texts and drink a beer.
Thank you for your centered expression....
Originally posted by Ian McLean
reply to post by MemoryShock
PS: Have you read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind? Interesting stuff!
Originally posted by MemoryShock
I mentioned earlier that I at times wake up in the middle of the night and find that the voices are not so static in their vocabulary; i.e. they are more verbose.