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I dedicate the following text to the
pioneers of the 19th Century, who created psychology without
knowing, not very well mentally: they were their own topic of study. It
is necessary to come back to this method and to give a place to those
that
the Nature prepared...
The following century replaced these explorers, by sorboniqueurs, (with legalised right of "label-libel" to say whom to choose and whom to shut in), the priestly type and even "satammu", which could facilitate their evacuation). To all, I recall that I gave up the diploma of psy-doc of the University of Geneva, (1950), because I did not see me with a title for visiting card, after calculating the speed of a wink and looking at "patients" assembling tips of wood. I went therefore to Africa for an extraordinary "Rimbaud-Trobriand period". |
| 1/ Now or
Never!
1.1 "James-Lange" versus "Cannon-Bard" 1.2 Conscience versus Unconsciousness? 2/ The logic of Evolution 2.1 Undeterminism versus determinism 3/ Spare parts for a last noodigm 4/ "Training" never seen, 4.1 Encounter with the puzzle of Locke 4.2 Best method of decision? |
4.3 How did
Pascal's
brain function
4.4 Training centred on problem-solving 4.5 Pilgrimage to Sources 5/ Conclusion: attempts at synthesis 5.1 A synthesis of our discoveries 5.2 An immense list of systems 6/ Thinking as a not thinking thinker 7/ Civilisation, remnants in right brain 7.1 "Arthur will be understood in 100 years ". |
1.
Now
or Never!
In March 1948, detached from the French Navy
to the University of Beirut, I was looking at the Pigeons' Grotto.
Magnificent
sea. "Now or Never!",
(at this time, I did not know I was "autist" but I had already a trick
to shake our legendary inertia: the fear to lose an opportunity).
I dive. At mid-distance, the sea starts moving. Immediately, I swim in
the tide of March, worse that the galloping horse of Saint-Michel.
Chance
of surviving, none. During the meal a Prof. explained that any attempt
to swim in this place, at this period, sent you to prison.
As a maniac of
introspection,
I often ruminated this experience. No film about my life! Just
the
synthesis of a life finishing stupidly.
First
flash: "This time the cork is a bit
far..." AND TIME DISAPPEARED! Strange: no fear of
death,
no call to help... (typical of a prosopamnesian).
Second
flash: a wall of water arrives behind me: "Jump
above, otherwise..."
Third
flash: I am on a border. A friend climbs down, I show my
arms
paralysed and frozen. Pressing on my hands, he helps me to climb the
path
of fishermen. How much time in the tempest? How much time to freeze
arms?
The time had disappeared!
In the language of today: "to
live
a strong moment"! Millions of French have fully "lived" in June 40: no
time to think! Who answers this mystery:
1.1
"James-Lange" versus "Cannon-Bard"
In front of a danger, what
comes first? emotion and fear, or perception and vision of the danger?
I cry because I'm afraid; or I'm afraid because I cry? James and Lange
claim that I perceive the danger viscerally, which releases my fright.
Of course: if I stop my tears, my sadness disappears. Cannon and Bard
claim
the contrary: fright results from perception: I can be sad without any
need to cry. Stress comes from an injury, a grief of love, during an
exam...
I consider this debate as a sign
that a correct definition for "conscience" escapes us: nevertheless, it
is the term with most definitions, being implicit in all books of
psychology,
logic, education, moral, philosophy...
1.2
Conscience versus Unconscience
(French having one word only,
"conscience",
we distinguish "prospective" from "reflexive" consciences, the first
appearing
in animals while the second being strictly human.
Decided to end my curse,
"prosopamnesia",
I dedicated more than 4000 hours in "graphotherapy", (acquiring another
speciality, "recognition of faces"). During courses with "model", I
only
drew the face. But s/he would move within the five first minutes,
changing
his/her heroic pose to a position of rest... I had to shape him/her
during
the first minutes, "getting an already presentable drawing", as told by
Ingres; then ending ad libitum. I was aware of my existence during the
minutes of rest granted to the model. My auto-portraits are "tense",
(see
Poussin, David, Lebrun, young Rembrandt...) but I do not feel the time
to pass.
Same total concentration in
circuses,
arenas, examination halls, hospitals, manifestations in street, courts,
playing the piano, shootings and jumpings of all kinds... in factory, (
a worker is "trained", when he answers a question without stopping his
work). In game rooms, youngsters on motorbike, rather ridiculous, reach
200 miles per hour without lifting one foot from the ground! Consult
your
gun champion: "Avoid thinking! a milli - second of lucidity and you
miss".
Most of athletes can show but not explain. Case of animals in circus.
Today, "mental
practice", "visualisation", "imaginary rehearsal"...
manufacture
a chain of the "not-thinking-Peles"...
"When athletes use visualisation after
relaxation,
their performance does improve... a clear indication: the visualisation
is "aware" and used to prepare an automatic act", (in
"Psychology
today" June 1999).
Could this physical training be used in the soft world, for "problem-solving"?
"These are all tactics that people can use in their own lives, being aware that many of the exercises require time. They have to be practised in the same way that athletes practice their physical skills... ("Psychology today" June 1999).
Newton use four constraints,
Darwin
and Wallace? eight. Today we see the usual stir which announces
any
noodigm and the existence of spare parts for a synthesis. I propose to
imitate Big Boss that decides without all the
desirable
information.
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- First, the bicameral system
which
reveals "a conscience because two brains",
(not the opposite). After section of the "corpus callosus", you
give a command to the right brain: "Close the gate". The
"patient"
stands up. "Why do you get up?" His left brain, totally unaware
of the order, has an explanation: "I must phone... " Obviously,
it could find ten arguments, (as the kid hating school): "I
need a coca..."
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- The contribution of Julian Jaynes,
(in 1976). Difficult to know when, in which occasion,
"conscience"
appeared. Cros-Magnon did not use his "reflexive conscience"
much.
I consider the "Greek miracle " as the discovery by a few of their
"self-awareness"
completed by a will and need to share knowledge. Before these first
humanitarians?
the "satammists", had discovered that
a few could dominate the masses by preventing them any access to
tools of conscience, such as writing.
____
- Interesting, the table of letters of George
Sperling, (by the way why not trying five letters by six or
ten by four?): a test confirming the enormous capacities of the brain
and
its habit to clear the problems without consulting the "conscious
talkative
brain".
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intuitions
of "genial" neurologists:
"...Founded on instinctive customs, the social behavior of man was submitted to the rules of education and culture. Consequently, human knowledge knew an exponential growth. This progress has a ransom: the dependence of the thought to the language leads to accept the current ideas and conventional ways of thinking . In scientific invention, mathematical speculation or artistic creation, progress is often the work of geniuses which knew how to silence what they had learned and to give free course to the revealing intuition of a thought without language. From Archimedes to Einstein lots of examples... " (Jean Cambier and Patrick Verstichel, "THE RECONCILED BRAIN", Masson 1998)Exactly vision of Saussure, Peirce, Wittgenstein, before 1914.
- Libet and his discovery of a delay line,
(rather similar to the process SECAM): HALF-a-SECOND! enormous time for
electric synapses. This discovery launched
discussions
on a reversion in time; minimising the interest of this one half-minute
delay, time to inspect all memories, to seek preceding
analogies
or cases, for the event which has just occurred. (Obviously, a
"prosopamnesian"
thinks of "normal" which recognises a face so quickly whereas he needs
two minutes, in the best case...)
4.2
Best method of decision?
that of the young baroness, the most intelligent person
of the group: she stopped her brain and thought: "What
would my father make?" And it worked! I still
use
the "prayer to the baron", (and it
still works, to see Balaboum!) But we have fallen again in the great
paradox:
4.3
" How did Pascal's brain function "?
I find stupid the
expression:
"imaginary math"; as saying "Pascal knew
less math than we, but he invented them". As soon as
the
"researcher" gives up reality, he leaves for the 18th dimension, (it
arrived
to me while writing an ideal program of ideal management !)
Young Pascal was probably top-autist, seeing
imaginary demons and hell, perfect to turn mad a mind already
frightened
by the monsters which he invents naturally. In any case, Blaise is at
the
same time was curious about all, with a will to learn, (another sign of
"soft-autism".
Pascal discovered
statistics,
as Newton discovered "calculus", by solving a major
problem;
major for him, a moner-player. But recognition of a big advance
requires
bastardisation: Leibnitz's binary was used for the Jesuits to convert
the
emperor of China and statistics reduced to a Pascalian bet more
than
doubtful... Idem: Schopenhauer had to become the "Thinker of Belle
Epoque".
"There are few ideas" (according to
Einstein),
means
- in 1939, in my lost village, I contemplated a genuine Bourbaki
marching
stupidly with bayonet and gun, (at the orders of a
généralissime
suffering from paralysing syphilis!) Later at the very place
where
the atomium of the first bomb was found: "Use of math in
operations
of chemical purification and physical compression led to the maximum"?
- in 1973, the crisis of oil had a curious effect: the "Companies of
Consultants"
could hire great specialists: I worked with Jacques, a
first-class
statistician. Extraordinary to formulate a solution: I had to recall
him
that "stats" is the language of managers, and therefore, to a
perfect
solution, both prefer a decision on incomplete information in the
allowed time. Thereafter, he explained me that he fought boredom by
imagining
"mathematical plays". And he played them alone, of course, (the
Polish Reverse, that formula making our computers whirr?
was
it just a game againt boredom?)
4.4
A training centred on problem-solving
My childhood was centred on
"problem-solving". I hated to play with other children and was
happy
only in the workshop with the tools of my father. My first play? at
five
years, I wanted to know if I dreamed all the night: "or my brain
stopped
and I could die; either for whom did it work?" I had to think of my
dream
as soon as awaken. I renovated introspection, (that's why I'm
interested
in Maine de Biran).
"Guru" stopped having a
servant
because he intruded at the privileged times, meals, (I cook "like a
Chef").
Already "important" in 1900, (like the baron), it stuffed me a strange
Latin, stuffed with Greek philosophy:
4.5
Pilgrimage to Sources
I define "top-autism" as
the sense of the opportunity. I was initiated, (in 1953), in a lost
tribe
geographically protected from our "civisation": the Foreign Legion
freed
this African Vercors, (building a stiff road, 15 degrees), and
immediately
a "fada" planted his tent. Thanks to him, (I paid him with sand
trucks),
I was probably the second White Man to visit this replica of antique
and
genuine Palestine.
Visit to the battle field of my
ancestors, promise never to meet my enemies on the other side of
the ravine, (soft racism ready for explosion). I saw me, asaggai in my
hand, fighting these neighbors, or hunting the buffalo. Make
silence
: a noise will put my tribe in danger. Extreme tension. Suddenly, it's
over! we won! plenty of meat! we can breathe, jump, dance, cry of
joy and shout with the tears, sing, repeat, congratulate, blame,
comment,
replay the action one hundred times, for us and for those that missed
the
day.
I lived the invention of
dance, theatre, the épopée of my tribe and his
battle
song. Each time,, my ancestors improved their internal technique: they
improved their techniques, PROGRAMMING and REPROGRAMMING their right
brain.
Some believe this "training" impossible. However Prophet Freud
and
Daughter write it unconsciously and Schopenhauer had a
presentiment
of it two centuries ago! Dreaming, a preparation for future fights?
No autism for the children. The
new-born baby visits his village with the back of his mother and all
hail
him. According to our "psychiatrists, "when a brother arrives, it is
underprivileged compared to the Little White Man". On the contrary,
a sister or a succeeds and he lives in a little republic. With an
adapted language. To refuse the company of other children and to
seek that of the adults, (case of Einstein, and mine), would be sign of
autism. In fact, children need two worlds: adults to protect and
teach them; children to socialise.
Programming the right brain is
possible at the times of emotions, errors, losses, frauds. And the
assistance,
the encouragement and correction must be immediate; which confirms
5.
Conclusion: two attempts of synthesis
I am probably the only
"philosopher"
that puts the "decision" at
the
center of philosophy (with a certain contempt for the usual
philo-slogans,
"doubts",
"distress", "astonishment"...) Naturally, I get along
better with the managers who acquired an experiment and accept to crown
their life like Locke.
5.1
A synthesis of discoveries described in chapter 3:
will confirm the intuition of Schopenhauer:
"...the "will" has decided a priori the accomplishment of the action. Conscience therefore cannot provide enlightenment, precisely because it learns the result a posteriori... "Of course, we now know the addresses of "conscious conscience" in the left lobe, and of "will", probably the "unconscious conscience" in the right lobe... I don't like big easy words, like "ego", "I", "me, "id", "ça", more than "Platonic ideas".
5.2 An immense theory of
systems
to discover,
Do you admit the parallel between
"hard " and "soft" world, seen by Spinoza:
Evolution is strictly a selection of beings that had a better solution at a given time. But the true solution for man?
to join together disparate events, without links, caused and exploited by people who never saw the others...It is however the crowning of a progress started by Jules Ferry. After Sedan, France needed officers able to read maps; and of workmen seeing a part in a drawing, (to compensate for the delay with England). That is "Bi-layer-thinking". Why not "Ten-layer-thinking" and more?
My experience as a teacher leads me to prefer:
6.1 In the "Jesus
Affaire",
we find a whole chain of substitutions:
____
- initially we go back to Zorro Babel,
the true " Messiah ", liquidated under mysterious conditions, against
insurance
which he will return after 500 years. Thus, the purpose of the
"Messiah"
is to calm followers.
Therefore, the "system
joKriss"
delayed the explosion during thirty years, until the assassination of
James,
the brother and successor.
____
- Josèphe is totally a replica of "
Jeshouah
", (sent to Galilee a little late!)
The future great historian, head
of one second revolt galiléenne, escaped death under
inadmissible
conditions, adopted by Vespasien and Titus, ending a pensioner of the
Roman
Empire...
____
- the final exclusion of the "Jews of Babylon" after
Nicée
would be brilliant, but the inventor had under his eyes the trick of
Pilate
and Hérode...
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- Now seek a " Messiah dominici ", under your nose... reappeared
in green feldgrau. It is a technique with simple substitution. Lots
of
"Messiahs" would have interest to hide having no relation
with
their adopted ancestors!
____
- And we shouldn't forget our "savers of companies"...
6.2
Sedan, two systems with gun in the centre:
____
- Krup model, made of steel, refused by Napoleon III, trustful
in
the
copper pop-guns of Austerlitz.
The French were
particularly
motivated to produce a super-gun: Germany had a patent for a long
recoil gun, but could not produce it. And France came out with a
long-recoil 37.
____
- the following system is the industrial realization,of the famous
75.
It is necessary not only to maintain the secrecy, but to inform the
ennemy
France starts producing a short-recoil gun. And the High
Staff
invented a spy, Esterhazy, an infantry officer!
____
- Therefore, the service of "statistics", in charge of such
problems,
decided to give a lesson to the "amateurs". Substitution by a
better
selected spy, an artillery officer, Dreyfus.
In
the end, two suicides in the "statistics service".
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- Germany launches its shrot-recoil 77 gun... France will
show its 75, in Shangaï, in 1900, during the war of opium. 14
years
gained for peace. Dreyfus served Motherland well.
____
- Interesting recuperation by the soft world: at that time, some Hertzl
had a strange plan but the "bankers" did not welcome the
idea.
More difference between them than between Calvin and Torquemada.
Thus, one more substitution in the long-recoil 75 system... Anybody
with
a "training" in "hard-soft" will smile.
____
- And so on... Do you see other "Messiahs"? by the hundreds! Napoleon,
Franco, and even Hitler.
For various reasons the computer, even with synthetic neurones, will not think: silicon is not carbon; to create, a motivation is necessary; and a sentimental shock. How to motivate it? making one madman more. But why create an artificial brain while the majority of human brains are neglected, stupidified by decision? There remains a solution: ask it what it can make through its power and vigilance: perhaps then it could, in a event, detect hidden structures that we do not recognise? and update a "pagoda".
7.
Civilisation, which remains in the right brain...
when it the left lobe has forgotten all".
To become conscious of an event,
in the course of execution, to explain it, to judge it, is not the goal
of the "reflexive conscience" run by the left lobe. Its role is to
create
a better response in case of a renewal of the event. Thus
appeared
the harpoon, the needle, the axe, the bow... Then man invented
"toolectuals
", to count and measure... Our "thought" depends on unconscious
structures,
written in the right lobe, that refuse, or recognise
and accept according to its programmation. A change in education is
essential.
We must
____
- accept the autonomy of children, teach to them
"bases-for-thinking
" and general principles for the life in society. Devils and
Dominations,
avoid.
____
- give up producing a kind of "diplomocus
memoris causa", the fashion during thousands of years as
described
by Mary Carruthers, (in "The Book of Memory", 1990,
Cambridge
University):
"Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others... human learning (was) above all based in memorative processes... the written page was understood to be a memory device... reading itself was regarded as an activity of the memory. "The conclusion seems that professional rhetoric teachers had little role in the initial development of medieval arts or memory", (page 150). "Memoria can be considered as one of the modalities of medieval culture (chivalry might be another). It has identifiable and verifiable practices and procedures that affects a variety of cultural phenomena (the makings of books, the layout of the Bible, citational habits, classrooms diagrams, the prevalence of certain tropes in poetry, the compositional structures of sermons",(page 260).____
- But especially, create unconscious reflexes of
problem-solving,
What do we make when the
editor
asks us to add 40 pages so that our masterpiece does not appear "poor"
in his collection? Therefore Schopenhauer produced four
presentations
of his intuition:
____
- for a thesis to be a "doctor",
____
- for his students,
____
- for the Learned Societies,
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- for the " pessimists of the Belle Epoque ".
He spent his time embroidering,
turning around the bush, (in World-Three), without really
understanding
what he, (or his father?), had felt in World-Two. I do not
reproach
our Byron of the Thought for being unaware of the bicameralism
but
he surely enjoyed a suffering position, a bit dandysopher waiting for
his
hour of triumph, satisfied to ape Kant:
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Test submitted to Bohr, who declares: