There's nothing like personal experience with the virus to know what it
is like to be infected with it.A 'before infection' and an 'after
infection' memory is an essential component t of course, as well as a
'during infection' component.
Fortunately as Douglas Hofstadter so aptly put it, if there is a
pattern lurking about anywhere, a human mind will eventually pick it up.
Its a very nice pattern, but there are a few bugs that have to be worked
out, IMHO.
After virus infection results vary quite a lot. During virus infections
also vary quite a lot. Before virus infection is like living in a
different world, after virus infection at least its possible to see why
people quarrel so about reality. Possible, I said.
I think of it as an information system in itself, but that may not be
easy to understand without a lot of thinking and background information.
Begin with F. David Peat's book The Bridge Between Mind And
Matter,(Titled as Synchronicity, subject is 'an interactive force)
continue with Paul Davies book The Cosmic Blueprint, and then talk to me
about delving into C. G. Jung inspired authors, dig into The Cassandra
Complex by Laura Layton Schapira and digest all of it then (get set for
this:) Emanuel Swedenborg/William Blake, who make one person, IMHO, of
course.
Well, with that settled, think about history and the God complex, (A
bibliography would be quite long and would extend backwards in time to
Aeschylus play Eumenides, line 659 through line 666 (!!):
The mother to the child that men call hers,
Is no true Life Begetter but a nurse
Of Live Seed. Tis the sower of the Seed
Alone begetteth. woman comes at need,
A stranger, to hold safe in trust and love
]That bud of new life--save when God above
Wills that it die...
THERE HAVE BEEN FATHERS WHERE NO MOTHER IS.
Same bibliography ought to include Theodore Reik's The Creation Of Woman
which traces the second story of the creation of Eve to a reversal of
the content, its not about Eve, its about Adam. Further connections that
ought to validate Mr. Reik are in his Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies
and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death, and absolute necessity to
understand the 'reversal' in time.
Well, Lunch is over.
This is a nice site, and I think its a very good idea to talk about
viruses and memes in the same sentence.
Betty,
Pimobius@gte.net
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MZ