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Level 3 of Consciousness by Richard Brodie. Meme Central Books Level 3 Resources Richard Brodie Virus of the Mind What’s New? Site Map Level 3 of Consciousness You are reading about something that most people don’t even know exists. If you told them, they wouldn’t just not believe you—they would have no clue what you were talking about. That’s why I wrote this little essay: so that I could show it to someone when they had no idea what I was talking about and, if they were persistent and open-minded, make some progress in their thinking. 1. Sometimes like attracts like and sometimes opposite attracts opposite. When like attracts like, it can end there, like an oxygen molecule made up of two oxygen atoms, or it can continue to attract like, like a Carbon atom. 2. Sometimes a self-replicating thing makes a copy of itself with a mistake in it. The only way for new things to get created is by a complex series of mistakes that turn out to be better after all.

BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY. A lecture presented in Cambridge, UK, August 23, 1997 Conference on "Beyond the brain", organized by the Scientific and Medical Network Summary Psychology explores the mental content.

BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY

Thought fixes perceptions and cannot express movement. Perception belongs only to the present. It is not possible to perceive yesterday or tomorrow. Past and future are mental representations which are perceived at the right moment. All introspections based on an exploration of the past and the future are distorted by the fact that a mental representation is not a reality. A pure perception does not belong to memory. The interpretation follows the perception and belongs to the memory. From this memory comes the avoidance of situations which carry suffering and the grasping of situations which carry happiness. Emotional reactions are so conditioned. Choices and preferences are intimately related to these systems of patterns.

To talk of that which is beyond psychology means to talk of pure perception. [ silence ] The Analysis of mind, by Bertrand Russell. Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970. .

The Analysis of mind, by Bertrand Russell.

The Analysis of mind, by Bertrand Russell. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library | Table of Contents for this work | | All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage | There are certain occurrences which we are in the habit of calling "mental. " I wish in these lectures to analyse as fully as I can what it is that really takes place when we, e.g. believe or desire.

The reasons which I shall give against this theory will be mainly derived from previous authors. . (2) Indirect reasons, derived from observation of animals (comparative psychology) and of the insane and hysterical (psycho-analysis). Few things are more firmly established in popular philosophy than the distinction between mind and matter. The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either.

Sense above them both, like a common ancestor. First, there is the way of perception.