On 04-21-98 William Elliot wrote to David Martorana... 
Consciousness is to brain as software is to computer.  I see no 
reason why the brain is the only possible platform. 
 
 WE> Consciousness itself is one of the greatest enigmas of the  
 WE> ages.  Here's a riddle.  Is a dead person more  
 WE> unconsciousness than a person in dreamless sleep? 
Is there a difference between the DOS prompt and off? hmmm. 
 
 WE> ...  Or that cave  
 WE> duelling jerk that claimed what we see as real is just a  
 WE> shadow of actual reality.  Must be he had a Hollywood view  
 WE> of reel-ality. -)  What I don't understand about Plato is  
 WE> how an ancient Greek could be a cave dweller, must have  
 WE> been behind his time. -) 
It wasn't a cave he was in at the time, but he had *vowed* not to 
expose the original experience as a Mystai.  The temples built to 
Dionysus were unique- not built on some acropolis, or promontory, 
but like the one at Athens, is a low, dark, damp dale.  Why?  The 
sacred sites were originally glades where magic mushrooms were to 
be found; Hellas was still, in his time, extensively forested and 
good shroom habitat. 
 
Unlike the grand portico, tall collumnar and/or clearstoried hall 
to admit light on impressive staturary, his were small windowless 
buildings where any small crack in the door, would've cast images 
on the opposite wall of passersby...  ala camera obscura.  Stoned 
on Amanitas or the sacred Kykeion, an inevitable 'reel-ization'. 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * I was born without a cluebook! 
--- Maximus 3.01
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