I’ve previously used the phrase “polytheistic mind” and various Jungian concepts cobbled together to describe this, but Minsky’s model is far more elegant:
A core tenet of Minsky’s philosophy is that “minds are what brains do”. The society of mind theory views the human mind and any other naturally evolved cognitive systems as a vast society of individually simple processes known as agents. These processes are the fundamental thinking entities from which minds are built, and together produce the many abilities we attribute to minds. The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to as the consequence of some basic principle or some simple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.
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Check out “Aspect Psychology” for a similar angle. It views the human psyche a whole civilization of personality ‘aspects’ which make up each individual. (Jane Roberts’ ‘Psychic Politics (An Aspect Psychology Book’):
HOLY SHIT
That makes it all so clear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
Those systems of government are advocated by people within whom those challenges have been met.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_actualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Federation_of_Planets
It’s a universal repeatable process crossing all culture.
I think we just solved the Da Vinci Code!
Sorry is this question goes Duh in the Homer Simpson sense but here goes. Is this a way to look at the 72 demons of Goetia? Some things I’ve read says they’re real demons with real chains of command etc. and others say they’re internal states/complexes and when you’ve mastered them you’ll know.
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2003...mons-and-the-pharmaceutical-industry/
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005...the-wave-particle-duality-of-spirits/
To become king, oaths of fealty or other pacts must be instantiated
{See also: Ark of the Covenant}
I really like your summary in the box at the top of the page: “A core . . . results.” The paragraph better expresses that set of ideas than all the brief versions that I’ve tried to write!
Umm, then I noticed a link to a URL at
http://timboucher.tumblr.com/post/17482972
which attributes Jane Roberts’ quote [“each personality…inner mind.â€] to me. Some kind of referential mistake there, I think.
Actually, I sort of like the romantic flow of that passage. It reminds me of Rousseau’s “social contract†philosophy; however, I can’t recall agreeing to any such contract.
You have to learn to sub-contract out to sub-personalities?
Hey Marvin, thanks for stopping by!
That’s from Wikipedia’s entry. The simplicity of it struck me as well.
Yeah, the tumblelog format leaves a lot to be desired, but I’m exploring alternatives.
Me too, one of the things I like about the tumblelog/clickstream style of capturing annotated data.
Yeah, that’s the problem about that. I also was never consulted on just what the “consensus” was that consensus reality was founded on.
But maybe that’s the opportunity which lies before us: to form those contracts in ourselves, with others and with the technology which surrounds us.
my baptist friend says that what i do in hypnosis is the work of demons and that i`m at risk of possession.
my answer to that is that i`m able to cope with my shit, thanks.
i`m actually staggered at the depth of fear that religion instills in some.
that`s my take julia, for what it`s worth.
as a leader i`ve been called worse than an egotist.
p.d. ouspensky, in his, the psychology of man`s possible evolution, says that most are never more than sleeping and function automatically.
so when the machines wake up we are in an interesting spot…….marvin?
Very interesting…