COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
The Web
We are a web of microwave, molecular and ionic
intercommunications forming and controlling the unified behavior of each of our hundred
trillion cells. In addition to manifesting and maintaining our body, this layered web of
intercommunications becomes the fabric for our conscious mind.
The conscious mind is only aware of the cellular web of intercommunications by remote - through instrumentation and experimentation. Prior to the
1930s nobody on the planet knew, or even imagined, they were created and maintained by a
communication network of trillions of little animals. We discovered we were made of cells
in 1870s but it took sixty years to realize the cells were actually little individual
animals that could exist by themselves if kept in the right conditions. Even today, few
people understand the implications of this.
If the web of intercommunications between the cells fail,
the human, and its conscious mind, instantly collapses and dies.
Habitual Links
If we habituate the cellular intercommunication network to
a behavior pattern (through drugs, or training) the sub-conscious mind weaves all sorts of
images so the conscious mind will continue to provide its "fix."
Like a baby addicted to its mother's heroin habit, our
cellular intercommunication network does not know or understand anything beyond its
desire. A baby born with a heroin habit doesn't understand needles or poppies or laws. It
simply does anything and everything it can to get someone to satisfy the aching desire.
Changing behavior at this level is difficult because the
cause of the habit stems from another, higher level of intercommunications, the conscious
mind. When we are awake, the conscious mind directs the movements of the body and, in
dialogue with the sub-conscious, the thoughts flowing through the body's
intercommunication network.
Consciousness
The conscious mind is a product of the cellular
intercommunication web interacting with the larger intercommunication web existing between
the individuals in a society. The larger web is constructed in the same way as the
cellular web. There are many similarities and some key differences between the two.
Cellular
Web |
Individual
Web |
Each
individual cell intercommunicates with the entire community of cells and the physical
surroundings to make up a multicellular being - such as a human. |
Each
individual human intercommunicates with others in its community of humans to make up a
society. |
Communications are
tactile, chemical, microwave and may be digital or analog. |
Communications are
tactile, chemical, visual, audible and may be digital or analog. |
The larger web of
intercommunications, the individual multicellular creature, directs the movements and
actions of the cells within it to manifest its body, including arms, legs, feet, eyes,
ears, and the bones, muscles, digestive, nervous and circulatory system. |
The larger
web of intercommunications, the one existing between members of a society, directs the
movements and actions of the people within it to manifest the body of society - including
the style and position of homes, buildings, roads, vehicles, farms, domesticated animals
and plants and so on. |
If the web of
communications breaks down the multicellular creature collapses and dies |
If the web
of communications breaks down, the society collapses and dies. |
The Human Conscious Mind
The human conscious mind, imaged within the cellular
sub-conscious mind, is a very special and powerful entity: a special evolutionary
development for increasing the ability of single beings to do things no individual could
possibly do by themselves. In fact, the word conscious derives from the Latin stem meaning
to Know Together and this is a perfect description of it.
The cells making up our bodies are no different than the
cells making up the bodies of all the other animals on our planet. If you examine an
amebocyte from our lymph system and one from a sponge, the two appear and react pretty
much the same. Both would be hard to distinguish, physically, from a free ranging ameba
from a drop of pond water. The difference between our cells and those of other creatures
is that our cells have traveled a different evolutionary path of learning and have
accumulated memories telling them how to behave so the society of cells construct and
maintain and move the amazing community of structures (liver, kidneys, lungs, heart,
intestines, teeth, bones, hair, skin, muscles etc.) that are, together, a human body.
What makes a human body different from a sponge are the
recorded memories of how to behave in certain, very definite ways and at specific times.
This is exactly the
difference between human societies.
Whereas the behavior patterns of cells are stored in
molecular structures called genes, the learned
behavior patterns of human society are stored in memes.
Memes are memories encapsulated in human language systems,
and take the form (today) of written words and all other signals which, when reviewed by a
human, will cause that human to modify its behavior in a specific way.
The behavior induced in the human depends on the role that
human plays in society's web of intercommunications. But all humans (save those without a
conscious mind) are strictly controlled and regulated by society's web of
intercommunications.
Immortality
The cellular intercommunication web manifests both the
cells and the entire human (including its mind) simultaneously. But the cells, who
actually create the web by their constant, individual intercommunications, live and die by
the billions in the span of a few months. The total manifestation of the human body and
its memories, however, continue to live through many generations of cells.
The society intercommunication web manifests the behavior
of the individual humans (where they are spatially and what they are doing at any given
time) and the entire physical structure of society simultaneously. But the people, who
actually create the web by their constant, individual intercommunications, live and die by
the billions in the span of a single century. The total manifestation of a society and its
recorded ideas, however, continues to exist through many generations of humans.
Immune Systems
If a human body is invaded by a foreign concept, such as
the pneumonia bacteria, the immune system works as a team to identify and destroy the
bacteria, thus preserving the peaceful harmony of the intercommunication web. We are
guarded against invasion. If society is invaded by a foreign idea (the world is a sphere
spinning under a star) there are legal and cultural systems that work to preserve the
existing structure of society (The Inquisition).
Unlike the rigid cellular intercommunication web, society
can absorb and use foreign ideas, sometimes modifying them to help the society achieve new
behavioral abilities. Evolution takes tens of thousands of years to achieve a slight
change in the cellular web of intercommunication but a single new technological
development, a single new idea, can metamorphose the structure of society in a very short
time.
But each new concept is contained within and controlled by
the existing web of intercommunication, whether it is a genetic mutation or a new
invention. And the webs of intercommunication have intricate control systems in place to
maintain things the way they are. Once the control systems have acted, changing behavior
is very difficult or - perhaps - impossible.
Control switches
Cells have controller genes that switch other genetic
memories on and off. The first few generations of cells that divide from the original
fertilized egg can become any cell in the human body. But once development progresses
beyond certain very defined stages certain cells can only become an eye cell or a brain
cell or a skin cell and they can never be anything else.
Little babies can grow up to be almost anything in society.
They know, by genetic memory, how to grow up and how to laugh, cry, make a face indicating
fear or surprise, run and walk. When we are babies we smile when we are happy and the
smile is pure, done correctly, at just the time when the baby feels good.
Society's web of intercommunications interacts with the
baby as it grows, turning on or off behavior potentials. As each potential is molded, so
the child grows until it becomes locked into certain thought modes. At each stage the
ability of the child to play a different role in society changes until it has a
personality and place within the control network of words, social signals, body language,
laws, codes, classes, and so on.
Society's control networks are generally invisible to
individual humans in much the same way the cellular control systems are invisible to
individual humans. We can detect them by experimentation, using sophisticated tools of
behavioral science, but most of us are completely unaware of anything but our own
conscious existence and the feelings of what we could or could not do: should or should
not do: must or must not do.
The control systems of society, like the control systems of
our body, have evolved by the long-term interaction of humans with their environment.
Neither system was thoughtfully designed. In fact, we have a dread of the whole idea of
designer human control systems. Scientists who have ventured into the field of society
control systems - especially the field of how these could be manipulated - are met with
outrage, not honor. Like genetic engineering, social engineering has such profound
implications most of us are scared to death of it.
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