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Queen of Information: Chirp!

The bright little cry pierces through our muddled thinking.

 

The little bird concentrates on one thing, one thought at a time. It must, because it has not much brain to do it with. But that single-minded consciousness is a pure ray of light pointing at something.

 

Pop-up effects: a 'B' in a sea of 'A's. A red square among a thousand blue. A bird among spheres. Our attention system allows certain information to 'pop up' effortlessly. Other information has to be searched for, a slow and error-prone process. But some things fit our mental architecture. Synesthetes can see a pattern of one digit among other digits that normal people cannot, because they see the colour.

 

"That Which Thou Art" – whatever we are.

 

Promethian hyperpraxia. Revealing the situation to be highly unstable. The emperor has no clothes! Zen realisation.

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Uploaded on April 2, 2009