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I’ve been a Mac tech since around the time they were invented. This was my primary vocation for decades, but these days I don’t have a lot of clients … locally. But if you or someone you know has a mac problem, and wants it solved? I can probably solve it. I have failed perhaps 6 times in 30 years or more.

Today I had a totally bizarre problem. OS X Sierra on someone’s Imac. We changed a password on one of their email accounts that had been compromised (on the server). Then, OS X mail wouldn’t accept the new password. A search of internet answers mostly failed. None of them worked. A dialog box would pop up in mail requesting the password, I’d enter it, and then it would report, in red text under the password box ‘unable to verify password or user name’.

Frustrating and senseless. As many such issues turn out to be.

I tried various ‘solutions’ which I will not detail here. All failed.

Eventually, however, what turned out to solve the problem was totally counterintuitive. Enter the password. »Hit the TAB key »to change the »focus away from the password field, »then hit enter. Worked immediately. No idea why.

Another intractable problem … is history for a new client.

^ “I have, for some 30 years, been somehow involved with technologies beyond anything we presently consider possible or interesting. These are the underlying features of the nature of human consciousness, and, particularly, our relationships with representational frameworks, objects and schemas. I have been learning and exploring the technologies we lost when we became compelled by their physical corollaries — the abstract ‘functions’ of physics, mathematics and machines.

Our species has been in furious pursuit of the deadliest branches of our representational endowments many thousand of years. If we are to survive, if we are to know anything whatsoever of the actual nature and potentials of these facutlies, we must establish actively developmental positions on the other branch. This is the original branch of our human intelligence, and it has been catastrophically compromised by our experience of the evolution of representational consciousness and the dominant modes and results of this abjectly misguided history.

We must actively divert our concerns and attentions from their long and common anchors in order to penetrate the peculiarly contagious results of our developmental histories and contexts. We may then together establish a new frontier of human interest, intelligence, activity and concern. One that is authentic in its organs, nature, relations and enactions.

It is, of course, the oldest frontier, but it has been uniquely abandoned and ignored in each epoch and place. We shall become the pioneers of our own nature and potential, together, and re-establish our senses and capacities to understand and acquire skillful relation with the assets and faculties that are native to our biological, ecological and relational natures.

The true frontier is neither space nor science. We presently stand before a variety of doorways that lead to irredeemable futures for our people and world. There are a few that lead somewhere else… to the origins and purposive imperatives implicit in our bodies and minds. These cannot be stated; they are not formulaic, but they can be discovered, made true in our sense and experience, and embodied.

We stand at a decision point. I made mine long ago, and I invite you and those who are bold enough to forge our agreement and action into something that will take us beyond culture and technology — into their origins and potentials. With and for each other, and the history and future of life on Earth. With and for the myriad intelligences here embodied, involved, and directly concerned.

Now.”

— an intelligence agent

One of the simplest ingredients in the recipe for cognitive contagion is the suggestion that one should be offended. Or the subtle implication that one is the butt of a jest about intelligence.

“As if mathematics is the ‘most highly structured’ island in the ocean of methods, and is produced, over time by the establishment of (causal graphs and assembly indexes) of previously established (i.e. ‘remembered’) structures, as they arise over time in the possibility space. Math is not what organisms do, they are originating the possibility space and its features, effectively ‘establishing the dimensions in which’ math can arise and or be applied by human beings. Then the humans, with their terrifying ‘mechanical’ addictions, start using the math to tear the environment that produced it to shreds, with no concern whatsoever for the possibility of upstream or upscale intelligences »bound by originary filial adoration with and to the Earth. The irony of the »mode of recursion here isn’t merely hilarious, it’s apocalyptic.”

— an anonymous informant

Consider the number of mathematical statements that approximate numeric fact.

From one aperture, only those that produce explicit, reliably repetitive ‘correct’ values or structures… are ‘true’. And thus useful, »because they are true.

Now invert the aperture. A cloud of »approximations of ‘fitness’ replaces ‘correctness’. The cloud is vast and complex, and probably contains insights unavailable without it. This aperture values »useful perspectival novelty» rather than explicit correctness.

One of these »precedes the other temporally in the Universe’s own development, and it »is not the former.

If you can translate the structure implied by this crib note from numbers and math to your cognitive experience of »identity… such that the cloud at least surrounds the ‘correct derivation’, you will experience forms of cognitive liberty that are unavailable to nearly all modern humans. Your mind is transpsygenic. This is better than being susceptible to hallucinogens… by »many orders of magnitude.

Ordinarily we do not experience the breadth of scope and dimension that are natural to the intelligences within us. We get a very narrow, mostly programmed ‘cage’ that is, effectively ‘modern rational representational thought patterns’. To the creative and anciently evolved intelligences within us, these cages are torture. What we’re seeking … the modes of perceptual and relational liberty that comprise our actual nature… await a special kind of key or key ring that unlocks them.

You are those keys. But … they’re »encrypted to protect them from being ‘captured’ and weaponized by the cultures that you are born into…

In a variety of senses, this might be the most important scientific discovery any branch of our science has produced, to grant us otherwise impossible insights about the nature of life in the universe, its origins, and measurable data that »could answer the question of whether an intelligence is indwelling in timespace itself, or the Earth, etc. This is one of my favorite recent discoveries…. assembly theory is »abjectly devastating in many of its findings, methods and… conjectures…

Assembly theory (Lee Cronin) is one of the most astonishing (and, perhaps verifiable) theories to come out of an examination of complexity in Nature in my lifetime. Absolutely fascinating, compelling, and mind-blowing.

But I do wish that scientists would stop calling the productions of Nature ‘machines’, even though I understand the sense(s) in which they tend to prefer and use this term.

Organisms »are not and cannot be ‘machines’.

∞ “In our modern experience, expectation and situation… our waking minds have become explicitly compelled to disorient. Locally and communally. So most of the ‘activity’ of our waking minds is explicitly disoriented and disorienting. Rather than intelligences we have symptoms. Rather than relationships, we have court-cases, descriptions, accounting wars, and confusion. We do not really ‘communicate’, so much as we wage conflicts based on personally adored fictions. Or feared fictions. Or popular fictions.

So we have, instead of minds, communities… nations… instead of intelligent human unions… or homes… we have a layered array of self-developing overlays. Their nature is conflict; particularly with their origins in nature, humanity and intelligence. Of course, even the ‘we’ in this discussion is a fiction. In fact, that’s what this discussion is about: our unities are counterfeited and compromised, and our minds represent our unities. So ‘we’ is largely just a fiction of victims and perpetrators. A ‘group’ in name only which is, in fact, its opposite.

We must learn, then, to both form intelligent human unions, and to become aware that the many layers of description, explanation, expectation, ‘science’, ‘religion’ and culture… are neither our humanity nor are they intelligent. They are the opposites of all we claim as human, masquerading in the standing absence of anything even slightly resembling the assets and natures of our real or possible intelligences.

If we shall forge actual unities, with and for each other and the history and future of life on Earth, we shall discover what it is and may mean to be born human on our wold. If we shall not, and shall, instead, continue in our habits of passive, ignorant objection, blaming and complaint, then we will be compelled to act against each other, nature, and intelligence. Ceaselessly. And this will be called ‘intelligence’.”

— an intelligence agent

∞ “One of the best analogies of the limitations of our usual habits of thought is that of a bird that is walking. The bird has domains of liberty in movement we would never suspect if we never saw one flying, and the aspect of our mind that ‘thinks’ conceptually is like this.

Our exposure to language, comparison, and evaluative thought in early childhood effectively changes what was born to be a bird into something more like a snail.

The key is the role of imagination, and our culturally-imposed denigration of this aspect of our minds which has more than five kinds of wings… and endows us with the capacity for the analog of flight in domains we are not even aware exist.

Consider the example of dreaming, where the mind literally creates an entire universe for the sake of exploring astonishing aspects of possibility, identity, roles, and circumstances that we would be incapable of ‘thinking’ of at all… and which are so unusual that we can only ‘remember’ their skeleton… which we call ‘a plot’…”

— an anonymous informant

Do what comes naturally’

— weirder than it sounds, by far