The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Good morning peoples, just woke up and I still have eleven hours of Echoes echoing
around in my head.

Just searching for thoughts:

While hiking yesterday I was ruminating on what might have been the most fundamental entity that advanced human thought.

At first I thought the freedom to think must have been the utmost prerequisite. Then thought no - freedom of thought exists in everyone at all times. One is always free to think inside his/her own head.

The thought then came to me that it is the ability to form rational thought itself.

Am I wrong, or missing something? Is something else more fundamental?

It seems to me we owe our advancement, our very thoughts themselves, and a debt of gratitude, to the environment we developed from, and the problems it contained. It seems to me that surviving the problems/competitors of our environment sparked our ability to form the first rational thought.

Then I thought that a fundamental essential within the environment itself is the fact that it is a changing and not static environment. We exist in a constant state of change.

Are the most fundamental entities change and competition?

Am I getting close? I seem to be moving in tangents.

Drift Away
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMPj1HXR1A[/youtube]

Ouch, Richie. That's the second time you've tried to get me to subscribe to that commercial site, when I thought you were talking about Echoes.

In the car, I was just listening to Tangerine Dream's Phaedra[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vP5uRz1lw[/youtube]

Whoa. We have entered a new realm. There's no returning now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oylzsdb13NU

Rational thought about survival has to come before survival. Adapting to change did drive thought as we moved from the constant life of the equator, with perhaps a wet and dry season, to a range of seasonal change. Change is becoming.

Rational thought, adapting to change, is standing naked in a foot of snow with more falling, and having a rational thought about boots, clothes, shelter, stored food. It comes a little late.

The ability to predict the outcome of change, cause and effect, telling the future in a vision, is what lead to survival in harsh climates. Only by living in a vision of the future was shelter, food, fuel gathered before it was needed. Becoming the future lead to survival.

Being able to invision the outcome of change, the future, and prepare to position yourself in an imaginary land, seems to be the key skill. The future is a story we tell, for better or worse, which moves us or not.

The future can be created by applied rational thought. Stay alive, gather the knowledge and materials.

The self story telling is not rational, It is a personal daydream. For most daydreaming is a waste of time, they live in the world dream. For a few it is a personal vision of a path with heart.

If you have a vision of your future, you will be drawn to it. It has a reality, so the universe will unfold to include that reality. The existance of thought alters the future.

Fifteen years ago I wanted to publish a book. It seemed impossible. What I wanted would have cost a lot. It was a world of Windows 3.1. slow inkjets, and WordPerfect. Seven years later the machines that could do it came out, for only $10,000. Four years later I had them.

My vision of the future drew them to me. It also drew knowledge that changed the book. The book wants to be published. It is an idea, a thought, formed and supported, fed, and it has a reality, a being.

I reached into the future, and sought, something took my hand and is drawing me toward a goal.

What we call rational thought, intelligence, is a thought form. Once brought into being they survive on their own. They have the power to change this material plane to make room for their coming.

Keep the door on the top of your head open.

I myself am not a subscriber I get it every Saturday night 9:00pm - 8:00am Sunday morning on my local NPR radio station, you can get Echoes
if you log onto the WITF page and sign up for streaming FM. As for Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
I heard an electronica version performed by Banco de Gaia, I'm not sure if it is on their "Farewell Ferengistan" or
"Last Train to Lhasa". That Tangerine Dream video reminds me of the "Qatsi" trilogy by Gottfried Reggio and Phillip Glass.

I love your explanation! This whole section resonates in me - I have experienced it many times, but just thought I was either imagining it, or crazy. I feel the line I highlighted happening today. Sometimes I get an idea that is so solid it inevitability comes into existence.

Thank you inventor!
I always appreciate your thoughts.

Chuck

Access to a protein source to enhance brain development probably didn't hurt the effort. A more carnivorous diet?

When I was in grad school they used to assign us to write a five page (no more, no less) single-spaced paper on a topic, each week, in each class, on a topic that was drawn from three to five articles or a couple of books we'd have to have read for the assignment.

Very often I'd just do the readings, and then wait. I could not sit down and just write, although I believe many of my classmates did. They went through a mechanical process of searching through the material for their arguments, etc., and then built their papers like using Lincoln Logs or something. I would just wait, and put it all on a mental back burner to stew. I would not particularly think about any of the readings, but I'd know they were loaded in.

In a couple of days, I'd feel the need to write. It's kind of the same feeling as when I'm hungry or cold or thirsty, it's like a drive. And it won't leave me alone until I type something out. So I'd sit down and just write the five page papers front to back in one marathon session. The logic would be there, the argument or evidence points (although sometimes I'd have to later rearrange their order for a better flow in the piece) would be there. All I'd have to do was just start typing. They came out well.

I have to wonder how much of what we think is coming from the ether, or wherever, is actually information we've consciously or sub-consciously loaded into our "back burner" thought processor, where it's gurgled around until the timer that lets you know it's there goes off?

Woah, I need some coffee, I'm almost incoherent this morning.
Uh, good mornin' all.

I think the town was Hoosick Falls or something. But it doesn't matter, really. Any place like that would do. Problem is waiting on the kid - she still has to re-apply and get accepted somewhere. She's been stalling, doesn't like change. Which I understand, that's a huge change. If she doesn't decide by the time it's time for us to move (i.e., the condo sells), I'll just pick a place I like and that we can afford, that meets the transportation and health criteria, has internet access and a library, and put our stuff in the U-Haul and just go.

Bugs, well, we don't go outside much so I guess they're not a huge issue for us.

I think we ~should~ take over the Shaker village, actually. That would be fun, even if it was only for a little while.

HEY! I took a bath and de-stinkified and everything. How come the thread's dead?

It's not you - always good to see ya! And it's not personal!
A bunch of images and thoughts formed in my head this morning and I'm pencilin' them down ASAP so I won't lose them. Will be gone for a while 'til I'm done exploding. Will be back later - hope everyone has a great day!

I know I do that subconscious info gathering you describe. Suddenly -voila! How cool is that?!

Threads are never personal. People seem to have developed lives... must be pretty weather everywhere.

And it'd be a lot cooler if I could figure a way to patent the process and rake in the royalties on it.

I love that show!

I have a cassette tape of that somewhere...