Purple Pills, Blue Angels, and Sumerian Robots
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Alot of people think that remembering your first memory marks the beginning of their sentience. While this may be a small spark of sentience, I think that the moment that one says to ones-self "Ah-ha! I am thinking, I am present, I am feeling, I get it now!" would be a more appropriate marker for this sort of happeining. I think it goes hand-in-hand with a sort of realization of the existence of one’s emotions. I don’t know if this makes me a late bloomer, but for me this didn’t happen until I was about 13, so in the summer of 1986 I remember having this sort of feeling that I just described. That I was not a simple automiton, only capable of doing the bidding of my mom or teachers, peers or anyone else; that I had my own thoughts and urges and the free will to act upon them. I was riding my bike down the street, on the sidewalk, in the early evening in my old neighborhood. It was hot and the sky was orange. I felt very content and aware of myslef. This contentedness and awareness lasted for many years until I moved out of town when I was 20. It seems like I have spent the better part of my life lately trying to regain this feeling. Andy
andy this is quite poigniont not quite what I thought you would respond with-that feeling of free will or "control over destiny" and comfort in your own skin is a hallmark of confidence and adolescent courage I guess-it is almost as wonderous as falling in love. I think this feeling can be recaptured but not with the intensity of youthful ardor-glimpses here and there but you need to tap into it when you sense it-I believe you were aware of your being aware long before this sense of wellness and harmony autonomy and control-We learn to forget the wonder of life through our persistant negativity and self critisism-without sounding simplisticaly naieve it seems the thoughts you had in this phase were most likely empowering ones-if you reaffirm yourself you may find this to happen again. LM
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – andy this is quite poigniont not quite what I thought you would respond with-that feeling of free will or "control over destiny" and comfort in your own skin is a hallmark of confidence and adolescent courage I guess-it is almost as wonderous as falling in love. I think this feeling can be recaptured but not with the intensity of youthful ardor-glimpses here and there but you need to tap into it when you sense it-I believe you were aware of your being aware long before this sense of wellness and harmony autonomy and control-We learn to forget the wonder of life through our persistant negativity and self critisism-without sounding simplisticaly naieve it seems the thoughts you had in this phase were most likely empowering ones-if you reaffirm yourself you may find this to happen again. LM
Thanks. I have been able to get small glimpses of it here and there recently, which is actually really cool. I think alot of it stems from feeling sort of homesick sometimes. Andy
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Hey Gang, Well shoo-wee-howdy-shucks it’s fleet week again here in San Diego. There is a big air show at Miramar this weekend and the Blue Angels are practicing about 15 feet above my head. I remember last year, I was really freaked out about this; "what if they crash on me?" – but now, I want to go to the air show. I probably won’t – not for fear of air crash, and not necessarily of crowds, but it is free to any yokel who shows up, with free parking even, so you can imagine what that would be like. I have been taking Prilosec for about 9 months now to control GERD. It seems to work wonderfully, dspite the fact that it is hella expensive. My doc knows I am broke so he gives me free samples. I was just wondering though, is there a connection between GERD, asthma, and GAD? I am guessing that the answer to this is ‘yes’ but I was wondering what the nature of the connection is. Well, I am off to begin completion on my latest assignment. It will be a robot wth a human head inside of the robot head. The assignment is to create a vessel that commemerates some sort of event, that is based on an historical example. The Sumerians and Pre-Hindus used various types of pitchers, bowls, etc. in ceremonies to dictate the importance of respecting all sentient beings. So my event that will be commemerated is when I became a sentient being; when I became aware of my own thoughts and my own existence; when I shed my robot exterior and knew that I had free will. Should be pretty interesting – I hope my teacher thinks so! Have a great weekend, gang! Andy
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So my event that will be commemerated is when I became a sentient being;
I want to know when this happened as well-when did you become a conscious creature or became aware of your sentience is there a connection between GERD, asthma, and GAD?
well some say yes however I have only seen where the physical conditions created increased anxiety and where the anxiety could percipitate the organic illnesses-they can in some sense feed off each other since the act of respiration and paristalsis are invoked via adrenergic and autonomic processes -I don’t think there is a definitive connection where when you arrest one you arrest the other however. LM
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So my event that will be commemerated is when I became a sentient being; I want to know when this happened as well-when did you become a conscious creature or became aware of your sentience
Alot of people think that remembering your first memory marks the beginning of their sentience. While this may be a small spark of sentience, I think that the moment that one says to ones-self "Ah-ha! I am thinking, I am present, I am feeling, I get it now!" would be a more appropriate marker for this sort of happeining. I think it goes hand-in-hand with a sort of realization of the existence of one’s emotions. I don’t know if this makes me a late bloomer, but for me this didn’t happen until I was about 13, so in the summer of 1986 I remember having this sort of feeling that I just described. That I was not a simple automiton, only capable of doing the bidding of my mom or teachers, peers or anyone else; that I had my own thoughts and urges and the free will to act upon them. I was riding my bike down the street, on the sidewalk, in the early evening in my old neighborhood. It was hot and the sky was orange. I felt very content and aware of myslef. This contentedness and awareness lasted for many years until I moved out of town when I was 20. It seems like I have spent the better part of my life lately trying to regain this feeling. Andy
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