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- ...presents... My Grey Matter
- by Tequila Willy
-
- >>> a cDc publication.......1991 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- By the time you finish reading this file you should be dead.
-
- Consider the proposition of knowledge. When we experience an event we
- generally unquestionably accept it as a truth -- that is to say, we don't
- question that it happened. For example, when I'm French kissing a girl I feel
- that hot wet tongue and I don't doubt the experience. When I'm sitting here,
- reading this text file, I don't doubt that I'm doing so; I see the glowing
- characters on the screen and it's an experience I don't doubt is occurring.
- But there's another experience I didn't doubt either....
-
- I was lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling in the darkness of my room.
- Suddenly, still prone, I was pulled from my bed -- against my will -- and
- carted out through my window into the darkness of the night. I was suspended
- in air for a moment, and I distinctly remember thinking, "No! I don't want to
- go!" And no sooner had I completed that thought than I was being sucked
- through a tornado filled with autumn leaves. There was a strong wind and I
- could smell and feel the stiff crunchy leaves and they collided against my
- body.
-
- I landed in a long tiled hallway. Immediately I acknowledged the array of
- doors and directly made my way towards a large rubber orange door. Out stepped
- my girl -- I didn't meet her face, but her stomach was hard and flat. She had
- long lean legs and I was happy to see her again! We made our way towards the
- end of the hall and out into the afternoon sunlight.
-
- Walking along the red brick path, we managed to cut through the throng of
- sweater-clad upperclassmen. Doug yelled out to me as we passed him -- they
- were all going somewhere; I don't remember where or why, but we certainly
- weren't going to join them. I returned Doug's greeting with, "...you trendy
- dork!" Shock spread across his face as we made our way past him.
-
- It was then that I realized that Richard was there. Richard's face turned
- red and he leaned forward and retorted a challenge towards me. At first I
- hesitated, but then I realized he was in a wheelchair so I quickly gave him a
- shove that sent him tumbling into the soft green lawn. Richard, sprawled
- helplessly in the grass, sent his horse after us.
-
- My girl and I, half running, managed to get the sliding glass door open
- and charged into the kitchen of the house. There was a large bleeding sirloin
- on the breadboard and suddenly I could taste it; it was raw and salty. The
- horse was right behind us now. Just as we finished sprinting through the
- kitchen and into the hallway I heard the horse's hooves on the kitchen tile.
-
- We turned into the master bedroom. Plaster littered the green carpet --
- no one had been in this house in ages and I pondered for a moment about my
- ex-wife. The horse was right behind us now. There was no where to run. I
- stopped short of the shower stall.
-
- Suddenly I woke up.
-
- Without hesitation I passed off my entire experience as a dream. Yet,
- while I was dreaming I utilized every sensory experience to test the reality of
- my situation and yet my sensory experience was merely reportive; it didn't
- attribute my experiences to fact or fiction, instead it just reported to me
- what was happening.
-
- I saw the color of the green carpet. I felt the door and determined it
- was made of rubber. I smelled the crunchy autumn leaves. I heard the horse's
- hooves on the kitchen tile. I could taste the raw salty sirloin. I even had
- the memory of my "ex-wife", and I've never been married -- I couldn't even
- trust my own memories as being true!
-
- My own experience was so deceiving and yet I am forced to attribute
- everything I know to experience; sensory experience. It's as if I'm a
- container moving through life and my senses report back to me what is
- happening.
-
- What do my senses tell me? "He's lecturing about volcanism." "Move your
- hand, Dork -- That burner is hot!" "She's soft AND warm!" "It smells like
- rain."
-
- Everything I know about -- or think I know about -- I know because I've
- experienced. There is nothing by which I know that I haven't experienced.
- (With this in mind, we don't truly "know" that the earth is spherical --
- however, based upon our other experiences it seems rational to believe -- but
- that starts to probe beyond the limits of this file..)
-
- Everything I've experienced I've experienced through at least one of my
- senses; vision, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. My senses are the
- interpreters of reality.
-
- But, as demonstrated by my dream, my senses deceive me. Even my memories
- deceive me. By all tests that dream appeared to be reality. So how do I even
- know that I'm here, sitting in front of the computer, reading this text file?
-
- The simple fact is I don't know.
-
- Consider this; if you have a tape recorder and sometimes you put a tape in
- and press play and it "eats" the tape and other times you put a tape in and it
- merely plays it, then you tend to not trust that tape recorder with your tapes.
-
- If my senses sometimes report things that are real and they sometimes
- don't, it's not entirely unreasonable to doubt my sensory input as being valid.
-
- In fact, what is your brain and how does it interact with your sensory
- input? All your senses transmit their information to your brain through the
- central nervous system and what is the central nervous system?
-
- Wouldn't it be interesting if we could learn more about how the brain
- works? If we could do that, perhaps we could learn more about reality and
- how to recognize it when we're experiencing it.
-
- I remember (or do I?) reading a passage from a psychology book where
- scientists were experimenting with cats. By electrically stimulating certain
- parts of the brain they could cause the cat to experience different sensations.
-
- For example, by stimulating one area of the brain the cat would have the
- sensation of extraordinary hunger and would continue to eat as long as that
- area of its brain was being artificially stimulated. Other strange reactions
- occurred; they would stimulate other areas of its brain and the cat might
- suddenly hiss and raise its back -- who knows what it was really experiencing
- at that moment? Perhaps a dog? Another cat? Was it just terror?
-
- In fact, what makes us so certain of our own reality? Maybe it's really
- one thousand years into the future and I'm a scientist. You're just a brain in
- vat; you have no body. I'm merely electrically stimulating your brain to make
- you think you have a body that's having all sorts of "ordinary experiences"
- that would occur one thousand years ago.
-
- I thought it would be interesting to inform you about reality and see if
- you reject or accept it. You didn't really read this file; I simply stimulated
- your brain so you would think you're having the experience of reading it.
-
- There is no need to doubt my claims. If you have no body -- and thus lack
- appendages -- it's impossible for you to kill yourself. After all, how can a
- brain in a vat commit suicide?
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- .ooM |Copr. 1991 cDc communications by Tequila Willy 07/20/91-#170|
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