Hypnotized consciousness
In hypnotized consciousness, our models are considered to be the “real” universe and are projected outside (Idolatry). In this state, we are modeltheists, fundamentalists, and mechanical; all perceptions are passive mechanical acts rather than gambles (each perception that we make is best considered to be a gamble rather than a certainty). We unconsciously edit and select bits of existential experience and admit them to the “real” universe only after they have been processed to accord with the “laws” of the “real” universe (Our left hemisphere unconsciously focuses on only a select few of the sensory signals it receives that it considers important). Hypnotized consciousness thus is that of the left hemisphere, since the left hemisphere prioritizes things that it already knows and expects.
Being mechanical and passive, we are also, or we experience ourselves as, dominated by the “real” universe and pushed here and there by its brutal impersonailty (The more certain of our views we become, the more we perceive ourselves to be victims of an impersonal world). In this state of consciousness, we are like a person passively sitting in front of a TV, complaining about the rubbish in on the screen but unable to do anything but endure it.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. (1986). The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 8 Creative Agnosticism (Page 253 · Location 5330). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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