Comment by Kernel John on September 4, 2010 at 10:18pm

User's Manual for the Mind - by: Robert Fritz
The mind strives to reconcile differences. But beware!.
Your brain will signal that the cloud formation before your very face shows that of Mickey Mouse even when that clearly is not the case. You on the other hand will likely remark to another that you saw Mickey in sky and the cult of the Elevated Mouse would be born.

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 7:11am

nicely done Kernel. That is exactly what happens in religion, and other collective groups, no doubt about it. We can see it in group think with the BP disaster, where the collective reduces the perception for precautions and thus leads to the conclusion for no need for precautions due to limited potential liability.

Sometimes when you get a group together, the togetherness gives a false impression of being rational due to isolation and group think. Organized Religion is very much group think, the Pope does not lead as much as speaks for the collective. Cults rise not because of the speaker but because the perceptions of the individual are already inclined to what the cult leader is saying. In a sense cult leaders play in the field of misconceptions and false conclusions.

What is articulated above reminds me very much of Ed Ricketts, who basically was saying the same thing. He was influential of Joesph Campbell according to the story, and he was barely known and definitely not famous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Ricketts

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 7:19am

I'll also add that organized religion is a at it's worst a prepackaged conceptualization that is used to create a social network or belief system, and it's used to explain certain types of experiences.That reductive tendency is a major problem in Christianity but we live in a world awash with irrational reductionism now, don't we, ..:D....I might point to Trans-humanism as technology Christians for the 21st century, as simply moving from Jesus saves to technology saves as a prime example.

Comment by Roman Kozlowski on September 5, 2010 at 7:33am

All I can say is at least thank 'god(?)' for the rigours of modern scientifi methodology to counteract such things.

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 7:40am

I also might add you might actually try and do the above sometime in context to being a tree. Consciousness is a tree of ground and figure state at the same time. below is a tree.

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 7:43am

I couldn't resist here's another tree with rings in plan and elevation at the same time. How is it possible to capture plan and elevation at the same time? It's because causality is non linear.

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 7:47am

Amen Roman

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 5:33pm

love the pic alexander!!!!

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 6:47pm

nicely done. i used truespace years ago but it didn't fit into my work very well, I opted to stick to rhino. Hopefully I'll get some renderings together from zbrush now that I"ve gotten a new tablet, that's my fun program but I'm not talented enough to post anything here from that program..LOL... I will soon though.

Comment by david thurman on September 5, 2010 at 8:04pm

Alexander i did a quick 5 minute of the Kernel. :D Actually it took me 7 minutes from pure scratch. The programs are starting to get so fast and easy to use not it's unbelievable.

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