From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Sep 25 1996 - 08:20:31 MDT
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Stephen de Vries wrote:
> Tthe brain hackers mission: To go where no one
> has gone before. One problem with brain hacking is that the
> protocols are obscure and there are no useful maps of the system
> to be hacked. What is needed is a Hackers Guide to the Human Mind.
No real hackers rely on the documentation! ;-)
> This could use dream interpretation and symbols to give the would be
> hacker a map to work with while in an "altered state of
> consciousness".
The problem is that symbols are highly variable, even if some have more
standardized meanings (After all, most psychologists and anthropologists
do not buy Jung's theories). I think a more reliable map would be based
on the hardware - it is more standardized, and can be accessed in a more
replicable way. A third possibility is to build a symbolic system, which
is then used to influence the mind; this is the solution of ceremonial
magick.
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