Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Zeroxmachina]

"If this isn't TID from Aura of Love, then I don't know what's going on... but if it is TID, then you guys are in for one hell of a treat!"

@Shannon

From what you describe in your journal, it sounds like textbook DMSI execution, but minus the user-side compulsion. Not to reach into the realm of disbelievability (a word I just invented), but as the sole creator of these subs, it seems likely that your subconscious holds all of them, and can probably selectively execute any of them that it finds useful to accomplish whatever goals it's interested in. Of Course this is just a theory in terms of TLD, but it's fun to think about either way.

My subconscious differs from yours but little at the level of the focus into the physical world.  While I indeed subconsciously know every word that goes into every one of these programs, that does not mean that those words are being executed as a subliminal for me all the time.  If that were the case, I would never have to run any subliminal but once, and having run so many would make me an eternally exhausted pile of jelly. As for selective execution, you must remember MIR: no matter what I do, it still requires actually listening to it to get the execution you need.  The subconscious does what it has to do, nothing more.  That includes executing subliminals.  That is why I have to use DMSI to get DMSI's effects, just like you.

Hm, I can't tell if this is dejavu or i've suggested something like this in the past. What I'm thinking about now is something along the lines of how someone can create a script in a coding language, which can then be executed to do something after it is added to a system (your subconscious, for instance). Since our goal is implanting beliefs (subconscious scripts), once we are programmed with the particular string of commands, should we be able to consciously decide to "run DMSI 3.1", I wonder...In your example, I wouldn't think you'd be exhausted because with instant-on kind of effects like Auras or healing in a sense you can run scripts as needed, and conserve system resources when they aren't. Wishful thinking on my part, perhaps

People tend to think the brain/mind is much more like a current electronic computer than it is.  All the evidence you need of that is how it's taken me 12+ years to get a functional "if ... then" statement working.  The subconscious is emotional, irrational, illogical.  Computers are the exact reverse.  "If ... then" is a binary logic statement.  That is the reverse of what I'm seeing play out when I use "if ... then" in a script.  Instead, I see, "But I want to do XYZ instead!"

And it's not as if just because you can remember the script, you can execute the program. You'd think so, but it's not.  There are pieces missing.  It doesn't work that way in actual practice.  We are not computers as we think of them today.  Our brains and minds are not computers as we understand computers today.  It would be closer to the truth to say that our brains and minds are separate, each having parts that do different things and interact, with the minds being both conscious and subconscious, and each part having different understanding and goals.  Then you add in what I will call the "self", which is also conscious and subconscious and multi-partite, and has different goals, and it looks more like a pair of twins sitting on a contraption composed of boxes everywhere that are connected by wires, all trying to achieve something, usually something slightly different, and they spend a lot of time arguing and disagreeing and sabotaging and generally not getting very far.

What we think would make sense from a logical perspective is definitely not how things actually work, as I am constantly discovering and being reminded.

Without getting too abstract, it surprises me you could get an if, then statement to work at all, given that those are predicated on the principle of cause and effect, which for all intents and purposes doesn't exist in the 'real' reality of the continuous moment that I assume the subconscious is aware of and operates in. Have you chosen a successor to inherit your compendium of information? I don't imagine you'll perish any time soon, but quite frankly I believe it would be a severe blow to the future of mankind if you take everything you've learned with you, whenever that may be.

On an unrelated note, as a 6+ year DMSI tester, I sometimes wonder if you'd ever consider re-enabling the long range sniper. I have a few tales related to that which defy logical explanation, but in due time.