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Recieved: 2001/05/05 23:11
Subject: Re: [K-list] EGO
From: Pepper J. Baxter
On 2001/05/05 23:11, Pepper J. Baxter posted thus to the K-list:
How would you dump old stuff and reformat a person so that it would really
"take" completely? Don't want to contaminate the new stuff here. Wouldn't it
take a lot of time to dump the old stuff, unless you have a secret or therie
I haven't heard but want to.Pepper
Christopher Wynter wrote:
> Hi Felix ..
>
> The computer analogy is a very good one for understanding how
> the human mind/body programming works ..
>
> In answer to your question, on the surface level, the first
> manifestations of the ego are all the visible IO devices
>
> The Keyboard, Monitor, Printer ..
>
> Then when you go deeper, it is the programs themselves
> which are the programs of the ego ..
>
> The Operating System .. is like a religion .. Windows
> behaves one way and will not talk to Linux or Beos ..
>
> and to go deeper still, even the BIOS code can be found to
> be ego ..
>
> because all of these are written by unknown
> programmers .. sit there, defining how the computer
> will interrelate to the world around it .. You and Me
> for example ...
>
> All of these go us to making up the personality of the
> computer .. because, when you look at the differences
> between a PC and a Mac, they have their personalities
> and their Individualities.
>
> On the deepest level, for that that which is not ego,
> I would consider the basic hardware set with its
> mother board and chipset, all of the IO devices, and
> its power supply ..
>
> sitting there waiting for someone to program
> it so that it can do something which its owner
> might consider useful ...
>
> and like the computer, we can get software and
> hardware conflicts .. and viruses sent to us by
> email .. and if we try to run too many programs
> at once, the system crashes ..
>
> Right through the work I have been doing with myself
> I have seen the behaviour of my computers firstly
> as a mirror for what is going on in my deeper world ..
>
> and, you know, the same principles apply ..
> we do come equipped with a virus scan..
> and a set of diagnostics
>
> and if we run them on ourselves
> we do function much better
> without so many conflicts and crashes ...
>
> every so often, it is good to check for broken links,
> run scan disk, do a defrag .. check for fragments
> of old programs we no longer need which we thought
> we might have erased ..
>
> and then, to travel where most are afraid to look,
> to check all of the libraries in the registry looking
> for fragmented code ...
>
> Youy know, I have even found that you can take
> all of the programs that you really want, and all
> of the data files .. store them somewhere for
> however long it takes (I use a second computer)
>
> and then go through and dump everything ..
> releasing all of the past, reformatting the
> hard drive .. and then load back in only those
> programs which are really going to prove
> useful in what you are doing now ..
>
> and this is a good time to include
> all of the latest versions of the software .
>
> So yes, Felix .. the computer can be a very good mirror
>
> cw
>
> At 10:59 AM 5/05/01, you wrote:
> >Bob,
> >I am fascinated by your effort to describe this ego thing. I
> >agree that it must be necessary or a lot of the people who
> >say I'm on an ego trip wouldn't bother acting like they
> >don't have one. For the last few years, however, I have
> >begun to use computerese to demonstrate and understand how
> >the various aspects of the human mind work. With my question
> >being: What part of a computer would the ego be equivalent
> >to? Could you or any other interested person hazard a guess?
> >
> >felix
>
>
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