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The superior colliculus in the brain stem.
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Very good, Hydra, you are partly right. But the superior colliculus is but a small part of a larger equation. Ever forget a name and then later it pops into your forebrain without preamble? A set mechanism has evolved in our subconscious operating system which allows our cognitive mechanisms to select as needed from the jumble of the surrounding enviorment in order to enhance our survival. Try this: Each day wait until some odd name or odd number or odd event repeats itself...then wait...it will threepeat. But here is a more philosophical question...are that which we call we merely the sensing mechanisms of our own subconscious or are we the we that is in control? Good question.
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I cannot tell a lie. I wouldn't have known the answer had I not happened to be reading the chapter "The Zombie in the Brain" in the popular book "Phantoms in the Brain" by neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran. Edit: Highly recommended by the way. Link.
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Asforme, Hydra, I can tell lies, but don't. Thanks for recommending the book. I will order it forthwith. What good luck, Amazon still owes me $3.95 for an overcharge on a book by R.A. Lafferty titled Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?. So in a week or so I'll read Phantoms in the Brainand report back my opinions. Now regarding the original subject of this thread... Does anyone else have something further to add? .
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We are the instigators of our own subconscious whether we understand it or not. Our senses take in information that we don't process immediately. Sometimes it appears when we need an answer. Sometimes at random. But our sensory experience is unique to our own actions. Dats wot I fink! By the way. All men lie!
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We are the instigators of our own subconscious whether we understand it or not. Our senses take in information that we don't process immediately. Sometimes it appears when we need an answer. Sometimes at random. But our sensory experience is unique to our own actions. Dats wot I fink! By the way. All men lie! Right on, olly! You go girl! I heard that! Bout time someone put those muckety-mucks in their place. Private note to olly's subcounsious: Look! Have you noticed that your sensory-gathering external robot has been acting a bit imperial lately? Good lord man, he just called all of menkind liars! Listen. Tonight when you put little olly to sleep for his debriefing why don't you put a kindness koan in his circuits before you reset him. Your Olly will be a happier camper and you will have more time just to be you.
Don't thank me.
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Private note to olly's subcounsious:
Strange, I got to work this morning and a smile randomly crossed my face.
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olly: You're quite right and it's astounding how many of us--even the "highly educated"-- are totally unaware of the power of the subconscious, or apparently even of its existence. More than once I have read accounts in the daily paper, and even from Time Mag, by writers who consider dreams meaningless random musings of the sleeping mind
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Olly's a girlie too?
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Haha, no I's a guy! I think Themilum mistook one of my answers in a round of Hogwash for a girlie answer too. Apart from content, can you determine ones sexuality from writing? Some earlier Nom de plumes were girls pretending to be guys so as to be recognised.
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