Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

I'll put that on the list as well.

Hi Shannon. Can you make a love version of X4A (Sex for Aphrodisiac)? We know that x4a is heavily based on aphrodisiacs. I'm sure X4L will be in great demand by many. I hope you can make it. Thank you ?

X4A is a very complex and intricate key script, and each statement is specifically designed and tuned for achieving a specific facet of causing the primary goal of that program to happen.  I cannot just do a find/replace to change the word sex to love, for example.  The entire script would have to be built from scratch, which would not be a simple thing.

I am guessing you want something that effectively causes people to fall in love with you?  If that is the case, I cannot do that for moral and ethical reasons.  It's one thing to induce sexual arousal, but it's another entirely to induce specific feelings, especially love.  Sexual arousal leaves room for choosing what to do about it.  But inducing specific emotional responses in the direction you seem to be requesting is essentially directly manipulating one or more types and levels of awareness to think/feel a specific thing, which is taking away free will.

This is why I made Aura of Love.  It causes you to be flooded with and project unlimited, unconditional love, but it is not a specific type of love, and it is not attempting to induce any specific emotional state in anyone else. 

The highest priority I consider when I make my subliminals is safety.  Then comes free will.  I know it is popular in some circles to take the deterministic view and claim that we don't have free will, but that just points to a lack of understanding of the brain/mind interface and how we function at a subconscious level.  Free will is incredibly important, and I will never ever knowingly or willingly violate personal free will with my subliminals.

So I can do Aura of Love upgrades, but a love based version of X4A will unfortunately not work.

To give you a little more insight, sexual arousal is experienced by the lizard brain and it is tied to the reproductive instincts.  The lizard brain understands very few things: Feed me, fuck me, make sure I am safe, and give me sufficient shelter.  That's about it, as far as I know so far.  But emotions are the primary means of thinking and experiencing the world for at least one of the parts of your subconscious mind, and probably three or more.  Like the conscious mind thinks in logical, rational and word-based ways, the subconscious thinks and experiences the world through emotions and symbols. 

Triggering sexual arousal is influencing the lizard brain, but not controlling what the person thinks and how they respond.  But because emotions are effectively the thinking and communication style of one or more parts of the mind, and they are easily manipulated (because they are not logical or rational) it is very important not to manipulate them.  Free will must be granted.

If this was not the case, I could have been done developing 6th Gen technology about 12 years ago.