atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
- From: lofting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:04:55 +1100
Prior to the emotions is a VERY generic set of qualities at work where the
focus is on coexisting or replacing context.
When we map-in raw emotions derived from fight/flight we have basics of:
fear
sadness/grief
rejection
anticipation (initially of wrong doing)
============
surprise
acceptance
love (sexual)
anger
first four deal with adapting to a context.
second four deal with asserting the context.
Note how the emotions most focused on replacement are those of love and anger -
as such they share the same space a la replacement issues - either immediately
(anger, erridication) or over time (sex, replication and so drown out the
opposition). IOW they are not opposites, more anger opposes fear, love opposes
sadness. Sex and anger share the same space and so can get 'mixed' in
expressions.
From the realm of fear/sadness emerges devotion where identity is asserted
THROUGH the existing context - this is a defence mechanism of protection in
numbers and so to integrate with the context. From sadness/grief emerges a
focus on quality, on being discerning etc., good at pattern matching etc.
The overall nature of the above is its development from the dichotomy of
integrate/differentiate - blend in or blend out.
From a writing/programming perspective understanding these differences allows
you to communicate with an audience. For example, those whose style of thinking
is replacement oriented will NOT instinctively consider coexistence as a
solution to a problem. Those whose style of thinking is more into coexistence
will NOT instinctively think of replacement as a solution to a problem. Their
prose will reflect these differences and so their preferences to one style over
another without being aware of those preferences.
Each category of emotions given above reflects not only the emotions in all of
us but also persona types (and so the MBTI can be mapped to the above as can
gender issues in general)
These basics get refined, thus from fear comes devotion to another/others
(anger reflects devotion to oneself). From anticipation of 'wrong doing' comes
the concept of cultivation, making it 'right' over time.
Can we change some of this? to some degree yes we can - through the use of our
consciousness and its ability to IMAGINE. That ability allows us to re-program
our species-nature PRIOR to an event -, we can shift our habits/instincts etc.,
to some degree. This does however, require understanding of what is going on
'in here' ;-)
The focus on understanding something NOW requires maximising bandwidth, and so
over-exaggerations, use of sensory harmonics (colours, chords etc) elicit a
REPLACEMENT focus and so a focus on PRECISION but at the 'dot' level, rather
than at the field level.
Lessen the bandwidth and you can still learn but over time. Reduce it too far
and one becomes like a cretan, where their metabolism is too slow to allow them
to 'link the dots'. Make it too fast and psychosis can develop.
The formation of habits allows programming of responses to stimuli such that
there is no 'thought' involved. Thus the use of exaggerations can aid in
laying-down habits in readers such that they ease through sameness, over-react
to differences and so remember them later.
IOW for presentations etc that require IMMEDIATE understanding, make it all
VERY intense but also spread across as many senses as possible. Basic
programming-of-people requirements ;-)
..
as for hypnosis - rhythm lets you get through any wall.
Chris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matilda Reich
> Sent: Friday, 12 March 2004 1:35
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
>
>
> Spot on, Christine.....Spot on!
> I quote you: "Once they have the person emotionally disarrayed, they can
> then program them with a new package of thoughts that slip in unresisted."
> Has anyone been watching that superb series "The Big Picture: Primal
> Instincts" on ABC 8:30 pm Wednesday nights? They covered the emotions:
> anger, happiness and fear. Beautifully made it described how the
> executive
> functions of the brain responsible for decision-making etc developed later
> and how the amygdala (emotional centre of brain) was around since the days
> of the reptile.
> What they concluded was that you can change the way you think but the
> emotions are pretty much "hard wired" into the brain and can easily topple
> over the executive thinking (neo-cortex? I think) functions.
> No wonder brain-washing and hypnotism works! But I was told once that not
> everyone is hypnotisable, is this true?
>
> Matilda Reich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BIRTLEY-KENT,Christine <Christine.BIRTLEY-KENT@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:38 PM
> Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
>
>
> > I think you are misdefining the word 'programming'.=20=20
> >
> > If you talk to someone, they can choose to hear you and absorb what you
> > are saying, but this is not programming. I contend that this is mostly
> > what the TW does - talks reasonably and nicely enough for the listener
> > to choose to listen. We at no stage take control.
> >
> > But programming a person's thoughts is another thing entirely - it
> > entails taking control of their own thoughts and over-ruling them. This
> > can only be done by fully recruiting the emotions. The art of
> > hypnotherapy relies on the subject being in trusting (ie emotional)
> > relationship with the hypnotist, and thus accessible to mental
> > programming. Fundamentalist religions and cults work in exactly the
> > same way - they capture people emotionally by appealing to their
> > emotions - making them feel good, feeding their ego, singing and
> > dancing, sometimes scaring the daylights out of them - they engender a
> > whole range of potent emotional reactions. Once they have the person
> > emotionally disarrayed, they can then program them with a new package of
> > thoughts that slip in unresisted.
> >
> > Whilst the two do work together, they are certainly not the same thing.
> >
> > As writers we can choose how much control we take by determining the
> > degree to which we will stir the emotions - advertising works this way.
> >
> > Christine
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> > > [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of=20
> > > joe_zolin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:45 PM
> > > To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > One can programme a dog's responses (see the works of Pavlov et. al.).
> > >=20
> > > One can react with programmed responses (see the responses to=20
> > > question for help on this list as an example).
> > >=20
> > > Mayhap the majority interpret the word "programming" as only=20
> > > applying to creating instructions for computer processes.
> > >=20
> > > And therein lies the nubbin of contention.
> > >=20
> > > For indeed I believe that programming is not just restricted=20
> > > to our silicon-based tools, but is a term to be used when=20
> > > providing a set of instructions to be followed to acheive a=20
> > > task, whether it be through a programmable tool, a genome,=20
> > > or indeed a reader of technical manuals.
> > >=20
> > > Thus I remain convinced, that technical writing
> > > Is
> > > Programming!
> > >=20
> > > (and yes, OO techniques are another interpretation of how=20
> > > things interact, and can be used to provide insight into many=20
> > > worldly, nay universal things, not just "computer programming")
> > >=20
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