{"id":4412,"date":"2012-10-24T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:54:08","slug":"the-two-mind-modes-telepathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/the-two-mind-modes-telepathy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Mind Modes. Telepathy."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been circling around and around some ideas that I want to use in my next novel, The Big Aha<\/em>. In today\u2019s post, I\u2019ll expand on some of the remarks in my October 15, 2012, post, \u201cSF Religion 3: Qwet<\/a>.\u201d\u009d But my focus isn\u2019t on religion in today\u2019s post, it\u2019s on the nature of mind and the possibility of telepathy.<\/p>\n

Open your (inner) eyes to your true mental life. Your state of mind can evolve in two kinds of ways that I\u2019ll fancifully call\u2014\u201crobotic<\/em>\u201d\u009d and \u201ccosmic<\/em>\u201d\u009d. The \u201crobotic\u201d\u009d mental processes proceed step-by-step\u2014via reasoning and analysis, by reading or hearing words, by forming specific opinions. Every opinion diminishes you.<\/p>\n

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The \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d changes are preverbal flows. If you turn off your endlessly-narrating inner voice, your consciousness becomes analog, like waves on a pond. You\u2019re merged with the world. You\u2019re with the One. It can be a simple as the everyday activity of being alert\u2014without consciously thinking much of anything. In the cosmic mode you aren\u2019t standing outside yourself and evaluating your thoughts.<\/p>\n

The cosmic mode is what\u2019s happening between\/behind\/around your precise robotic communicable thoughts. The idea is to notice the spaces between your thoughts, or to avoid being caught up in your thoughts. This is a fairly common meditation exercise.<\/p>\n

We might have some specific brain sites that control when our state of consciousness flips from being with the One<\/em>, that is, in a smooth, mixed, continuous or \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d state\u2014of being with the Many<\/em>, that is, down to the \u201crobotic,\u201d\u009d specific-opinion state. If you\u2019re a dreamy sort of person, your natural trend is to drift out to unspecificity, out the One. But other personality types tend always to be pushing down into the robotic, studying the details of the Many.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m imagining a qwet treatment that helps you can get into\u2014and remain within<\/em>\u2014a smooth state for a longish period of time.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve often said, I have the experiential sensation that my mind oscillates between One\/Many about sixty times per second. Between the \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d\/\u201d\u009drobotic\u201d\u009d consciousness modes. You do need both modes to get buy. The One state is like a radar ping you reach out into the world around you, and the Many state is when you say, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m alone here, it\u2019s me against the world, what do I do next to stay alive?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

Breaking away from the cosmic mode can be thought as involving a quantum collapse. You go from a broader, more ambiguous state to a more specific state. How does the collapser work? It affects not just you<\/em>, but the things that you\u2019re looking at and coupled to. Everything around you becomes overly precise, that is, robotic instead of cosmic. Less interesting. Like\u2014think of they way that some people can make a whole scene dull just by the way they start talking about it. \u201cHow much did that cost? Is that safe to have around? Did you notice the scratch on it?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Do animals have collapsers? Do physical objects? Let\u2019s say \u201cnot usually.\u201d\u009d Might the ability to collapse be connected to having consciousness? Let\u2019s say \u201cyes.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

What if I use the Antonio Damasio\u2019s definition of consciousness as \u201cthe ability to visualize yourself visualizing yourself.\u201d\u009d You can watch a model of yourself watching yourself. It\u2019s a three-level map. Actor, strategist, analyst. The actor <\/em>just does things, like an animal. The strategist <\/em>observes the actor and makes corrections. The analyst <\/em>observes the strategist\u2019s decisions and improves on them.<\/p>\n

Suppose that this is a kind of physical map, a three-tier flow of quantum information, and that for a fixed-point theorem type reason, these flows cause quantum collapse\u2014they throw a system into an eigenstate, that is, into a robotic, non-cosmic, fixed point. Humans are the main things that are three-tier collapsers, but such collapsers do occur naturally in certain places, just as certain types of crystals or mirrors might be found in nature. The spots with collapsers seem to have bad juju, that is, they\u2019re inherently boring.<\/p>\n

I see the collapsers as being like snags in a rushing muddy river of quantum flow. And the snags leave precise ripple wakes. And there can be a kind of beauty to the moir\u00c3\u00a9 patterns of the overlaid wakes\u2014this is what we call our human culture.<\/p>\n

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In my novel, I want to work with the idea that managing to stay in the uncollapsed cosmic state, they can achieve a kind of telepathy. You can couple your \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d mental state to the \u201ccosmic\u201d\u009d state of another person. I won\u2019t be like a phone conversation. Your thoughts aren\u2019t at all like a page of symbols\u2014they\u2019re blotches and rhythms and associations.<\/p>\n

Key Plot Point: <\/em>For quantum theoretic reasons, a quantum link between the two systems isn\u2019t of a kind that can leave memory traces, otherwise the link is functioning as an observation that drags consciousness back down to the robotic mode. So you can\u2019t directly exchange specific, usable info via quantum teep. In my novel this will be a disappointment to the government backers of the qwet experiments.<\/p>\n

But your mind state will <\/em>be changed by your teep interactions. But not in the obvious way of \u201cremembering what they \u201d\u02dcsaid\u2019.\u201d\u009d After teeping with someone, when you later drop back down into your chatty \u201crobotic\u201d\u009d state, you\u2019ll find that you are saying things you wouldn\u2019t have said before the merge. But maybe you\u2019re not sure why.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t so different from a memory of a very deep, close, intense conversation with someone\u2014a talk where you really got onto the same wavelength. Like a talk in bed with a lover, or chatting happy with a pal, or, getting into deep concepts with an admired mentor\u2014telepathy happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been circling around and around some ideas that I want to use in my next novel, The Big Aha. In today\u2019s post, I\u2019ll expand on some of the remarks in my October 15, 2012, post, \u201cSF Religion 3: Qwet.\u201d\u009d But my focus isn\u2019t on religion in today\u2019s post, it\u2019s on the nature of mind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-the-big-aha"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}