{"id":3665,"date":"2012-01-07T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:50:47","slug":"how-to-get-big-aha-a-few-more-brussels-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/how-to-get-big-aha-a-few-more-brussels-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get BIG AHA.  A Few More Brussels Pix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I\u2019m posting some more about<em> The Big Aha<\/em>, and I\u2019ll be using images from Brussels and some older images from Point Reyes.  As I mentioned, the reason I was in Brussels was to give a TEDx talk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifddXYCPCYU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here, once again, is a YouTube video of that talk.  I felt like it went really well.  It\u2019s kind of a preview of the ideas on my autobiography, <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/nestedscrolls\">Nested Scrolls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/brurutedxdonut.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Anway, back to my Big Aha rap.  The idea is that I\u2019m interested in some kind of quantum-computation-related type of higher conscoiusness that will put us into something like telepathic contact with the world around us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/brutree.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not that I expect this to actually happen anytime soon, it\u2019s that I\u2019m looking for an idea for an SF novel.  And, okay, yeah, I\u2019m also, as always on the search for peace and enlightenment.  So how do I get to the Big Aha?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/bruspiraliron.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>One scenario is a Henry Kuttner-type flaky scientist\/inventor coming up with an oddball physics device.  He can stay in the smooth mind groove without having to collapse his consciousness.  We don\u2019t get into any multiple universe angles, we play it straight, a person is expanding their mind by getting their particles into an unusual state.<\/p>\n<p>And then\u2014using entanglement and hylozoism\u2014they can edit the physics of the objects around them.  Talk to the objects, make them act weird.  Wacky matter.  You don\u2019t get high, your house gets high for you.<\/p>\n<p> If you\u2019re a close student of my web activity, you\u2019ll noted that some of the material appeared on my guestposts on Charles Stross\u2019s blog recently.  But I\u2019ve re-edited them a bit, and they\u2019re illustrated here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/brushirleybig.jpg\"><br \/>\n[John Shirley speaking at TEDx Brussels.]<\/p>\n<p>The action of the Big Aha might be like a deeply intoned Om that reaches down to the attometer level.  The aethereal vibration.  The faint squeak of the Pigg Boson\u2019s curly tail.  But it\u2019s not meditation and it\u2019s not drugs.  It\u2019s physics.<\/p>\n<p>I see a subcultural group growing up around the Big Aha.  I\u2019d rather not see them become stock market wizards like the guy in that movie Limitless.  And I don\u2019t want them to be like acidheads.  Some other kind of oddness.  They have weird senses of humor.<\/p>\n<p>My precise flimflam physics recipe for achieving the Big Aha is still not quite clear to me.  I\u2019ll get there.  And then in retrospect it\u2019ll be \u201cobvious.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/bruparty.jpg\"><br \/>\n[Student beer party in Petit Sablon Square outside our hotel window. Even the women were peeing on the ground. Peter Bruegel would have loved it.]<\/p>\n<p>So I keep asking myself how.  How would it be to think in an entirely new way?  What routes might take you there?  Can you stop collapsing the states of your mind?<\/p>\n<p>And\u2014what powers do you get once you have the Big Aha?<\/p>\n<p>One idea is that some higher being is the observer in the quantum interaction.  The cosmos, a giant jellyfish, the Big Pig as I called it in Hylozoic, or simply the One.  The One is also the observer in our lives. Many of us have problems with this notion because each of us is conditioned to think there is an \u201cI\u201d\u009d that is running \u201cmy\u201d\u009d life.<\/p>\n<p>I can teep you if we both merge into the One.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/reystone.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In conversation, my friend Nick Herbert made two related remarks about contact with the One, or with the universal wave function.<\/p>\n<p>(1) The soul might perhaps be given a scientific meaning as one\u2019s immediate perception of one\u2019s coherent uncollapsed wave function, particularly as it is entangled with the uncollapsed universal wave function of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>(2)  Synchronicity might be evidence that we\u2019re all parts of some higher being.  And the higher mind\u2019s ideas filter down into remote links.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/reyloch.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely interesting to suppose that you can, by some physical change, get your brain into a state where you are in fact in a continuous-mode, uncollapsed all-is-one, highly entangled, super-empathy-possessing mind state.<\/p>\n<p>So, again, how do we get there?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it\u2019s true that an advanced meditation technique might get you there\u2014the accomplished masters are said to have siddhis, or special powers, which might be akin to direct access to the uncollapsed universal wave function.  But for an SF novel, I want something with a little more bling to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/reybranches.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>How about a quantum computing gadget that fits into a small case attached to a head band, and the band has circuitry in it that entangles the gadget and some part of the brain.  (One of my commenters, Brucecohenpdx, suggested this idea and said the device might use TMS or transcranial magnetic stimulation, although I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll use such a potentially time-bound notion.)<\/p>\n<p>The head band makes me think of the \u201cbrain toys\u201d\u009d they used to advertise in the pages of magazines like Mondo 2000.  What if someone made one of these that really works?  In this vein, I\u2019m thinking in terms of, why not, the old strobe approach\u2014a brain toy headband that pulses lights into your eyes, getting your brain into an unusual state.  Light itself is, after all, a type of quantum-computational input\/output channel.  The gizmo would use a sophisticated quantum computation to key the proper pulsation rates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/barberchairs.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Or, kicking it up a level, maybe I use a biocomputation, to make it cool.  A cunning cuttlefish pet sits on your shoulder, directing the pulsations.  Maybe you don\u2019t have any old-school LED lights, and the cuttle pal simply flickers at a nice rate in the tips of two tentacles.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, the tentacle tips are suckered right over your cornea till you achieve lift-off.  Users might be called squidders.<\/p>\n<p>And we might as well include music or a warbling hiss in the squiddy Big Aha stimulation biodevice. And maybe even smells and shudders.  The more senses you tickle, the more vivid is a fictional scene. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/manhole.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The efficacy of a given Big Aha routine might wear out\u2014a bit like a sex fantasy or one\u2019s joy in a particular song.  And you have to keep tweaking the process to be able to get off.  A media biz in new improved Big Aha trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I\u2019m posting some more about The Big Aha, and I\u2019ll be using images from Brussels and some older images from Point Reyes. As I mentioned, the reason I was in Brussels was to give a TEDx talk. And here, once again, is a YouTube video of that talk. 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