Can dogs think phenominally?

What is the universe but God perceived through the senses?

What are such preceptions before the word [(of)(God)]

What is it like to be a dog?

Do dogs eat each other ?

(…as a need for some unnecessary back and forth , suffice with some measure of damage control…):

“ In some cases, a dog may eat another dog due to extreme hunger, if it sees the other dog as prey due to its small size, or if it has a medical condition that triggers aggression.” wiki)

How could it that such specific contents of rare occurent situations evolve to mean widely spread connotation referring to human conduct in general!?

The source of pure light/awareness is darkness?

Strange light.

Then if yingyyang revolves fast enough, 7 shades of grey manifest, where no disattached thing’ remains as such. Right? Or is it wrong ? Such uncertainty results in degrees of uncertainty, except if no degrees of difference can claim exact configuration.

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I had to have some corroborative ‘evidence’ due to time compression could not wait.

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Wiki:

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In the I Ching, the concept of Yin and Yang forms the foundation of its metaphysics. Yin represents the passive, receptive, and feminine aspects, while Yang symbolizes the active, assertive, and masculine forces. These dualities are interconnected and in constant flux, reflecting the dynamic nature of reality.

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yin (+) and yang (-) provide the basis for I Ching readings.

The I Ching (or Yi Jing, with Mandarin pronunciation) is an ancient Chinese text meaning The Book of Changes. It dates back more than 3,000 years to the Zhou Dynasty in China (the book provided the inspiration for the Zhou dynasty to overthrow the Shang Dynasty in 1070 BC). The book is a foundation for both Confucianism and Taoism (despite how different these two philosophies are).

A dolphin state of mind

“From the neuroscientist’s perspective, it’s not that difficult to recognize the mental state of an animal, particularly another mammal. We experience many of the same physical, perceptual, and emotional processes and states.”

Meeting Dr. Lilly, before his death, was a great and illuminate experience, at a small bookstore in Los Angeles, and the words which came to my mind and hard wired there were;

“One needs to be well founded to be able to sustain on psychedelics, in order to carry on with the exploration that can enable to interpret the communication which can come about between dolphins and human beings.He was correspondingly instrumental in finding a new tech inspired modal technique of the development augmenting the naval use of sonar as a form of detection of other objects in the see.?

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John C. Lilly: The pioneer of floating


We explore the life and times of floating’s most important figure.

From January 6 1915 until his death on September 30 2001, John Cunningham Lilly pushed scientific boundaries and explored what he believed was the limitless potential of the mind.

His career spanned the worlds of physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor, at times being praised by the scientific and medical community as a pioneer and at others being ostracised by them as an eccentric.

For example, he was the first person to map pain and pleasure pathways in the brain and devised pain-free methods for introducing electrodes deep in an animal’s cortex, allowing for groundbreaking research.

Despite his eccentric methods, his work in the study of dolphins and inter-species communication encouraged a generation of scientists to study marine mammals and raised awareness and respect for the animals.

Yet it was his work in sensory deprivation that has perhaps been his greatest legacy.

In 1954 he invented the world’s first floatation tank, an enclosed saline bath designed for intensive study of human consciousness when deprived of as much external stimulus as possible.

In the original deprivation tank, you were suspended in 160 gallons [725 litres] of water with everything but the top of your head completely submerged. A nightmarish-looking “black-out” mask supplied you with air and blocked any light from reaching your eyes.

Later alterations did away with the mask and requirement of total submersion. Instead, the water was saturated with 800 pounds [360kg] of Epsom salt, making the water so dense you can float on the surface – akin to the modern set-up of i-sopod tanks we use here at Floatworks.

Rather than using the tanks to provide peace and relaxation from external pressures and distractions, Lilly’s obsession was of mind travel and exploring alternate realities.

It’s worth bearing in mind he often conducted experiments with mind-altering drugs, including ketamine and lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as LSD.

Born in the American midwest in Minnesota, Lilly’s career spanned the worlds of physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor.

He showed an early aptitude for the sciences, conducting chemistry experiments in his basement by 13 and being christened Einstein Jr by his fellow students at his Catholic grade school.

He went on to study physics and biology at the California Institute of Technology, followed by a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and continuing to study biophysics and psychoanalysis.

In World War II, he researched the physiology of high-altitude flying and invented instruments for measuring gas pressure before switching his focus to probing the physical structures of the brain.

In 1954, while working at the Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps, he began experimenting with an isolation tank, using himself and another scientist as the first subjects, suspended for hours in warm salt water.

In his 1972 book The Center of the Cyclone, he described the first time he used LSD in an isolation tank: “I traveled through my brain, watching the neurons and their activities”.

He turned his attention to dolphins in the late 1950s, when he established the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, a centre devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication. Here, in 1965, Lilly conducted his most notorious and highly criticised experiment.

For ten weeks his young assistant, Margaret Howe, volunteered to live in confinement with Peter, a bottlenose dolphin, in a house flooded with water, allowing them both to live, sleep, eat, wash and play intimately together. The objective of the experiment was to see whether a dolphin could be taught human speech and became the focus of a 2014 documentary The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins.

His work inspired two movies, 1973’s Day Of The Dolphin, in which the Navy turns the animals into weapons, and 1980’s Altered States, in which scientists combining drugs and isolation tanks see reality dangerously unravel.

More recently the influence of his work in the fields of floatation and sensory deprivation can be seen on the small screen, in both Fox’s supernatural drama series Fringe (2008-13) and Netflix’s hugely popular sci-fi horror show Stranger Things.

Despite his acclaim within the worlds of fantasy and pop culture, Lilly’s most emphatic legacy was through his work with float tanks; which has allowed millions of people to calm the mind and body, and bring positive changes to the lives of so many.

Lilly died at the age of 86 in Los Angeles due to heart failure. A decade previously in 1991, Mavericks of the Mind Author David Jay Brown interviewed him at his home in Malibu. “It was a magically enchanting evening,” Brown wrote.

“John was like a Zen master, with sparkling extraterrestrial eyes, in top form, more brilliant than ever at 76, laughing, creating and bursting realities like soap bubbles. John is very direct and ruthlessly compassionate, more knowledgeable than a library of encyclopedias yet as innocent and curious as a small child.”

On the home page of his site, johnclilly.com, maintained by the John C. Lilly Institute, it reads, “In the province of the mind, there are no limits.”

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That is mutual production within wholeness.

Privation requires something substantial to subsume it… could not exist apart from it.

Capacity is toward fullness… which it also cannot do apart from that fullness.

Devolution is nihil for the fire. The author & perfecter.

Fullness is the baseline for One… & he don’t grade on a curve.

Shades of gray is nihil. Rainbow is substance toward / displaying white.

Sigh.

These songs vex me:

“You Should Have Seen it in Color”
“Cover Me Up”

P.s. I love the cat program. And the dog program. And the human program. I’ve only ever seen/been one of them willfully defying it. No bueno.

Ishthus, this is one reason role of eyeballing leave such bitter after state to the likes of me - (know), as I am glad that some here allow me to participate regardless. A black American guy on a CNN program, recently interviewed , wrote on how audiences need to detach themselves from the flow, in order to see themselves in terms of the ‘bigger picture’.

For instance, what of Wittgenstein say here:

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“Wittgenstein’s notorious sample of a ‘complete primitive language’ (viz . the builders’ game of the Philosophical Investigations ) is often thought to be closer in kind to animal forms of communication than human language. Indeed, it has been criticised on precisely these grounds. But such debates make little sense if we take seriously Wittgenstein’s idea that language is a family resemblance concept. So, rather than argue that the builders’ game ‘really is a language’ (or not), I propose to turn the debate on its head and welcome the comparison. By changing our perspective in this way, I suggest that we can see that the learning of language is crucially dependent on forms of communication that are animal in nature. I then discuss how these lessons might shed light on empirical research into both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of linguistic communication.”

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Exactly.!^^^

pukes

Haha very :laughing:

The builders game might be relevant. To my knowledge, dogs only build things when they’re trained to by humans. And they can do this based on verbal commands and operant conditioning.

So who trained/preprogrammed human builders?

Nature.

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“You know that’s right.” - Kant

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with actual tusks, how ‘bout that