Tao quartet

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Tao Paradoxico-Philosophicus 9-10

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    Un dieu donne le feu     
     Pour faire l'enfer;      
      Un diable, le miel     
       Pour faire le ciel.      

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TRACTATUS PARADOXICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

9	Nervous system: consider one or more closed organizations that intersect with a living organism and its cognitive domain, expanding it.
9.1	A logical observer distinguishes the nervous system only within the living organism and interprets sensory surfaces and effector surfaces as “inputs” to and “outputs” from the nervous system that match “outputs” from and “inputs” to a world “out there”.
9.2	A paradoxical observer interacts with and tentatively distinguishes the activity of the nervous system as “nerve” impulses that encode only “how much” not “what” the living organism “perceives”.
9.21	Since everything “perceived” translates into nerve impulses, the nervous system does not discriminate (distinguish) between impulses coming from an “outside” world and those originated “within” the nervous system (“inside” or “outside” blend into “inside and outside”).
9.22	For this same observer, the encounter with other observers triggers the invention of a tentative world “in and out there”.
9.23	While some of these observers adjust, share, and thus “confirm”, tentatively the invention, others do not.

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10	Environment: logical observers distinguish the intersection of their cognitive domains as a common dwelling and call it their environment.
10.1	The distinction of an environment appears to these observers as an invitation to extract or deduce further distinctions.
10.12	These further distinctions appear to these observers as processes (events in time) that produce components (objects in space) forming open networks of processes and components that exclude these and other observers.
10.2	Language and communication emerge in this way from the activity (of processes) in the nervous system and thus, the logical observer invents a world “out there” independent of the observers.
10.3	Since processes, components, open networks of processes and components, and an environment neither define nor maintain themselves, logical observers may only distinguish (extricate or deduce) them from organizationally closed unities (paradoxical context), which will appear open and no longer organizationally closed (nor paradoxical) for these observers.
10.4	Paradoxical observers interact with and tentatively distinguish an environment as a world “in and out there”, through which they may, with some difficulty, relate to logical observers.

Tractatus Paradoxico-Philosophicus

A Philosophical Approach to Education
Un Acercamiento Filosófico a la Educación
Une Approche Philosophique à l'Education
Eine Philosophische Annäherung an Bildung

Ricardo B. Uribe

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Tao Paradoxico-Philosophicus 7-8

solar Tao

Sonne (Sun)

Lyrics ©2001 Rammstein. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, aus Alle warten auf das Licht fürchtet euch fürchtet euch nicht die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Hier kommt die Sonne Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen kann verbrennen, kann euch blenden wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht legt sich heiß auf das Gesicht sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Hier kommt die Sonne Fünf Hier kommt die Sonne Sechs Hier kommt die Sonne Sieben Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Acht, neun Hier kommt die Sonne Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen kann verbrennen, kann dich blenden wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht legt sich heiß auf dein Gesicht legt sich schmerzend auf die Brust das Gleichgewicht wird zum Verlust lässt dich hart zu Boden gehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Und wird nie vom Himmel fallen Fünf Hier kommt die Sonne Sechs Hier kommt die Sonne Sieben Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Acht , neun Hier kommt die Sonne

Unofficial Translation ©2003 Jeremy Williams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, out Everyone is waiting for the light be afraid, don't be afraid the sun is shining out of my eyes it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you all when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on the face it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four Here comes the sun Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of them all Eight, nine Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on your face it lays down painfully on your chest balance is lost it lets you go hard to the floor and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four And it will never fall from the sky Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of them all Eight, nine Here comes the sun

meta-Tao breaks

Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the ocean

The next metapattern discussed by Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom are breaks:

Background

Transformations; change; leaps; shifts; sequences of stages; dilemmas and decisions.

Examples

• In science: chemical reactions, metamorphosis, evolutionary change (punctuated equilibrium), energy transformations, phenotypic plasticity, point of change from action to reaction, waterfalls, branching, etc.

• In architecture and design: divisions of space and activity, vehicle brakes, etc.

• In art: perceptual shifts, design changes, etc.

• In social sciences: insights, stages in development, events that change psychosocial states, etc.

• In other senses: divorce, death, birth, marriage, crashing waves, breakthroughs, etc.

Metapatterns

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Tao subsystems - IX

The last subsystem of the consciousness system discussed by Charles T. Tart after extero-interoception, input processing, memory, subconscious, the processes of evaluation and decision, emotions, space/time and identity is motor output:

Subsystems

Motor Output

The Motor Output subsystem consists of those structures which we physically affect the external world and our own bodies. In terms of conscious awareness, these structures are primarily the skeletal, voluntary musculature. If I take a minute out from writing to pet my cat, I am using my Motor Output subsystem with full awareness. The Motor Output subsystem elements that primarily affect our own bodies are glandular secretions and other internal, biological processes. These latter, involuntary effectors are controllable not directly, but through intermediates. I cannot directly increase the amount of adrenaline in my bloodstream, for example, but if I make myself angry and wave my fists and shout and holler, I will almost certainly increase the amount of adrenaline secreted.
Two kinds of inputs control Motor Output: input from the Evaluation and Decision-Making subsystem, conscious decisions to do or not to do something, and input from a series of controlling signals that bypasses the Evaluation and Decision-Making subsystem. The latter includes reflexes (jumping at a sudden sound, for example), emotional reactions, and direct control of Motor Output from the Subconscious subsystem. Subconscious control in the ordinary d-SoC includes qualities added to otherwise conscious gestures that reflect nonconscious mental processes: you may state, for example, that a certain person does not make you angry, but an observer notices that your fists clench whenever this person is mentioned.
Motor Output operates with almost constant feedback control. By monitoring the environment with the Exteroception subsystem and the body with the Interoception subsystem, you constantly check on the effect of your physical actions and on whether these are desirable and make adjustments accordingly.
Many voluntary movements are quite unconscious in terms of their details. You decide to lift your arm, yet you have little awareness of the individual muscle actions that allow you to do so. In d-ASCs, greatly increased awareness of particular aspects of the Motor Output subsystem are sometimes reported. Greatly decreased awareness has also been reported: actions that are ordinarily subject to conscious awareness, via feedback from the interoceptors, are done with no awareness at all. During my first experience with a psychedelic drug, mescaline, I told my body to walk down to the end of the hall. Then my awareness became completely absorbed in various internal events. After what seemed a very long time, I was surprised to notice that my body had walked down the hall and obligingly stopped at the end, with no conscious participation or awareness on my part. To some extent this occurs in an ordinary d-SoC, especially with well-learned actions, but the effect can be much more striking in a d-ASC. We should distinguish lack of sensory awareness of body actions from awareness of them but without the sense of ego added. The latter also creates a different relationship with motor actions.
Deautomatization of motor actions is another sort of altered awareness of motor output that can occur in a d-ASC. Either you become unusually aware of components of automatized actions normally inaccessible to consciousness or you have deliberately to will each of these component actions to take place because the whole automated action will not occur by itself.
D-ASC related changes in the way the body is experienced via the Exteroception subsystem and in awareness of functioning of the Motor Output subsystem can alter the operating characteristics of voluntary action. You may have to perform a different kind of action internally in order to produce the same kind of voluntary action. Carlos Castaneda gives a striking example of this in a drug-induced d-ASC. His body was completely paralyzed from the "little smoke" in terms of his ordinary way of controlling it. Doing all the things he ordinarily did to move produced zero response. But if he simply willed movement in a certain way, his body responded.
Changes in the awareness of the functioning of the Motor Output subsystem may include feelings of greatly increased strength or skill, or of greatly decreased strength or skill. Often these feelings do not correspond with performance: you may feel exceptionally weak or unsure of your skill, and yet perform in a basically ordinary fashion. Or you may feel exceptionally strong, but show no actual increase in performance. The potential for a true increment in strength in d-ASCs is real, however, because in the ordinary d-SoC you seldom use your musculature to its full strength. Safety mechanisms prevent you from fully exerting yourself and possibly damaging yourself. For example, some muscles are strong enough to break your own bones if they were maximally exerted. In various d-ASCs, especially when strong emotions are involved, these safety mechanisms may be temporarily bypassed, allowing greater strength, at the risk of damage.
In a d-ASC the Subconscious subsystem may control the Motor Output subsystem or parts of it. For example, if a hypnotist suggests to a subject that his arm is moving up and down by itself, the arm will do so and the subject will experience the arm moving by itself, without his conscious volition. If a hypnotist suggests automatic writing, the subject's hand will write complex material, with as much skill as in ordinary writing, without any conscious awareness by the subject of what he is going to write and without any feeling of volitional control over the action. This kind of disassociated motor action can also sometimes occur in the ordinary d-SoC, where it may represent the action of a disassociated d-ASC.
This ends our survey of the main subsystems of states of consciousness. It is only a survey, pointing out the major variations. Much literature already exists from which more specific information about various subsystems can be gleaned, and much research remains to be done to clarify our concepts of particular subsystems. Particularly we need to know exactly how each subsystem changes for each specific d-ASC. So we must know our parts better, although I emphasize again that it is just as important to know how these parts are put into the functioning whole that constitutes a system, a d-SoC.

Tao subsystems - VIII

Tao beyond passion

I often watched you the way you whore yourself/You're so beautiful/You flirt, tease, enviously I wish you'd flirt with me.

Perhaps I'm enticed by what you are/I imagined us jumpin' the broom, foolish I know/'Cause that's not the life you live.

You live alone in a crowded bed never remembering faces

Conversations just a body for the lonely

Spend one night with me satisfy me for free and I'll love you endlessly

I overheard you say you'd give them what they wanted

So give me what I want

Tell me I'm the only one

I want to marry you

Tell me I'm the only one

In a harlot's dress you wear the smile of a child with the faith of

Mary Magdalene

Yet you wash the feet of unworthy men

Come and I'll set you free into an endless valley of fruits both sweet and sour

And whatever displeases your palate my kisses will wash away

Stay. If you must dance, dance for me

Blessed are the pure at heart for they shall see god so close your eyes and dream

For the world will blind you and I'll judge not so that I may not be judged

Please give me what I want

Tell me I'm the only one

I want to marry you

Tell me I'm the only one