Glossary
Consciousness
Information received and decoded by a structure. In prescientific human beings, the structure is the nervous system as defined and limited by its imprints.
Intelligence
Information received, decoded, and transmitted by a structure. Operationally, we cannot say an entity is “intelligent” until it transmits information received.
Imprints
Electrochemically bonded neural circuits defining and limiting the capacity to receive, decode, and transmit information. There are at least eight imprint circuits in the human, of which only four are normally used.
Higher consciousness
Neurological states in which suspension of imprint or serial reimprinting allow for detection of information usually not received by the four primitive circuits.
Higher intelligence
(1) Neurological training which allows for high-fidelity reception, decoding, and transmission on all eight circuits of the human nervous system. (2) Presumed extraterrestrial races which have evolved to such hi-fi information processing.
“Reality”
The Gestalts which a given nervous system integrates out of information received. Each “reality” is relative, being defined and limited by the imprint circuits of the receiving nervous system.
Brainwashing
Forcible reimprinting of a nervous system to eliminate old “realities” and imprint a new “reality.”
Hedonic engineering
The art and science of reimprinting one’s own nervous system for more ecstatic or intelligent functioning. Serial reincarnation in one body.
Information
The measure of the amount of order in a system. The mathematical reciprocal of entropy, the amount of disorder in a system.
Signal
A unit of information at a velocity equal to, or less than, the speed of light.
Electromagnetic chauvinism
The belief that information requires transportation, i.e., signals, i.e., energy moving at, or less than, the speed of light.
Neurologic
The logic of the nervous system; how the imprint circuits process information.
Terrestrial circuits
The imprint circuits concerned with survival, status, and reproduction in a gravity well, i.e., on the surface of a planet. These are the four circuits normally used by most human beings.
Left hemisphere
The portion of the brain concerned with linear processes. The presumed control center of the four terrestrial circuits.
Extraterrestrial circuits
The imprint circuits concerned with what have been called “religious” or “mystical” consciousness. These are now assumed to be the four circuits of quantum logic for use in space migration, higher intelligence, and longevity-immortality.
The presumed brain location of the quantum-logic circuits of extraterrestrial consciousness.
Light cone
An hour-glass-shaped figure in which the spacetime paths of light make up the cone itself. All signals move at, or slower than, the speed of light and must be inside the light cone. Thus, only events in the past light cone can affect A. And, in turn, A can affect only those events in its future light cone. This is the rule of special relativity. However, there may be quantum events that do have effects outside the light cone. These effects would have to be nonenergetic effects: information without transportation, or without signals.
ERP
The Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox, which holds that if quantum theory is true, nonlocal effects must occur (outside the light cone). This was offered as a reductio ad absurdum of quantum theory, since it suggests “telepathy,” as Einstein pointed out.
Bell’s theorem
John S. Bell’s proof (1964) that any objective quantum theory must include nonlocal effects: effects outside the light cone (faster than light). Thus, if we reject nonlocality with its suggestion of “telepathy,” we seem driven to nonobjectivity, which suggests psychokinesis or the merging of physics and parapsychology into paraphysics.
Decoding
Finding the meaningful structure (information) within a system. Beethoven’s Ninth and the Crick-Watson DNA model are both decodings of the life script of Terra.
Neuro-
A prefix denoting “known by or through the human nervous system.” Thus we have no physics but neurophysics, no psychology but neuropsychology, no linguistics but neurolinguistics, and, ultimately, no neurology but neuroneurology, and no neuroneurology but neuroneuroneurology, etc. See Von Neumann’s catastrophe immediately below.
Von Neumann’s catastrophe
More fully known as Von Neumann’s catastrophe of the infinite regress. A mathematical demonstration by John Von Neumann, showing that any attempt to remove uncertainty from the quantum realm by introducing a second order of instruments to monitor the first order will still contain uncertainty, leading to a third order of instruments, a fourth, etc., to infinity . . . or to a decision by the observer that we can bear the remaining amount of uncertainty.
Guerilla ontology
The basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page “How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?” This literary technique seems justified by the accelerated acceleration of new knowledge, new theories, new inventions, and new possibilities in our time, since any “reality” map we can form is probably obsolete by the time it reaches print.