[HN Gopher] John C. Lilly and the Solid State Entity (2016)
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       John C. Lilly and the Solid State Entity (2016)
        
       Author : ahiknsr
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-01-12 12:32 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | bitwize wrote:
       | When he was describing the ECCO I kept imagining extradimensional
       | offices full of ADM3A terminals...
        
       | throwawa14223 wrote:
       | This is about a man drugging himself and reporting on it. This
       | article takes his 'discoveries' far too seriously.
        
         | realce wrote:
         | They are not "discoveries" they are "ideas." People get to
         | discuss ideas without taking them seriously.
         | 
         | The battle between the ECCO faction and the SSE faction is a
         | representation of our own, individual, biological drives and
         | conflicts. We will certainly evolve some kind of super-powerful
         | system and it will be an extension of biological
         | characteristics we currently posses. The point of the idea is
         | to realize both possibilities exist within us at this very
         | moment and to understand our choices can influence the thing
         | that is created that will out-pace us. It's just about which
         | genes will be expressed into the super-system, which is the
         | same old story since genetics begat itself.
        
           | BongJustice wrote:
           | Those are not just ideas, man, have you ever even floated? I
           | have done mad edibles in a float tank and I got to tell you,
           | the Solid State Entity is real. Open your mind brother.
        
             | realce wrote:
             | Your bad program incited you to derail this discussion!
        
         | labrador wrote:
         | I'm happy for you that your undrugged mind is so full of
         | logical clarity to the benefit of mankind and any type of drug
         | would disturb this pristine well of wisdom
        
         | vixen99 wrote:
         | So is this:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception
         | 
         | (In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953)
         | 
         | Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?
        
           | buildsjets wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy
           | 
           | Recommended Huxley reading for the committed Materialists of
           | HN.
        
       | realce wrote:
       | Never thought I'd see the SSE referenced here on HN. Things are
       | getting weirder...
        
       | walterbell wrote:
       | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899429/
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       |  _> The personal papers of the neurophysiologist John C. Lilly at
       | Stanford University hold a classified paper he wrote in the late
       | 1950s on the behavioural modification and control of 'human
       | agents' ... Lilly accepted a position as head of the Section of
       | Cortical Integration at the National Institute of Mental Health
       | (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. His appointment was based on an
       | ambitious 'Proposal for a Research Program on the Relations
       | Between the Activities of the Brain, Body and Mind'. Combining
       | communications theory, neurophysiology, and psychoanalysis, his
       | aim was to use new brain-mapping techniques to physically locate
       | and manipulate behavioural correlates in the brains of monkeys,
       | cats, humans, and later dolphins._
        
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