Exerpts from: "Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer"
by John C. Lilly, MD
page 25:
"Purely random noise may avoid these difficulties; it may be a proper
'acoustically lighted blank screen' for cross-modal excitation of the visual
projections. Initial experiments with in-phase and non-phase noise in the two
ears show some new programming possibilities. One pitfall, here, however, is
to avoid the initial problem of the programming by the random noise itself.
This tends to result in chaotic programming, i.e., randomness itself can
build up to large intensity within the metaprogramming systems. WIth
adjustment of the acoustic intensity of the two non-phase related noises
these effects can be attenuated and the noisily lighted visual screen used
for proper projection purposes. Only preliminary experiments have been done
in this region as of yet."
Chapter 8, pp 76-79:
Basic Effects of LSD-25 on the Biocomputer:
Noise as the Basis for Projection Techniques.
In the analysis of the effects of LSD-25 on the human mind, a reasonable
hypothesis states that the effect of these substances on the human computer
is to introduce 'white noise' (in the sense of randomly varying energy
containing no signals of itself) in specific systems in the computer. These
systems and the partition of the noise among them vary with concentration of
substance and with the substance used.
One can thus "explain" the apparent speed-up of subjective time; the
enhancement of colors and detail in perceptions of the real world; the
production of illusions; the freedom to make new programs; the appearance of
visual projections onto mirror images of the real face and body; the
projections and apparent depth in colored and in black-and-white photos; the
projection of emotional expression onto other real persons; the synesthesia
of music to visual projections; the feeling of "oneness with the universe";
apparent ESP effects; communications from "beings other than humans", the
lowered Cloze-analysis scores by outside scorers; the clinical judgement of
the outside observer of 'dissociation psychosis, depersonalization,
hallucination, and delusion' in regard to the subject; the apparent increased
muscular strength, and the dissolution and rebuilding of programs and
metaprograms by self and by the outside therapists, etc.
The increase in 'white noise' energy allows quick and random acces to memory
and lowers the threshold to unconscious memories ('expansion of
consciousness'). In such noise one can project almost anything at almost any
cognitive level in almost any allowable mode: one dramatic example is the
conviction of some subjects of hearing-seeing-feeling God, when "way out".
One projects one's expectations of God onto the white noise as if the noise
were signals; one 'hears the voice of God in the Noise'. With a bit of proper
programming under the right conditions, with the right dose, at the right
time, one can program almost anything into the noise within one's cognitive
limits; the limits are only one's own conceptual limits, including limits set
by one's repressed, inhibited, and forbidden areas of thought. The latter can
be analysed and freed up using the energy of the white noise in the service
of the ego, i.e., a metaprogram 'analyse yourself' can be part of the
instructions to be carried out in the LSD-25 state.
The noise introduced brings a certain amount of disorder with it, even as
white noise in the physical world brings randomness. However, the LSD-25
noise randomizes signals only in a limited way: not enough to destroy all
order, only enough to superimpose a small creative "jiggling" on program
materials and metaprograms in their signals. This noisy component added to
the usual signals in the circuits adds enough uncertainty to the meanings to
make new interpretations more probable. If the noise becomes too intense, one
might expect it to wipe out information and lead to unconsciousness (at very
high levels, death).
The major operative principle seems to be that the human computer operates in
such a way as to make signals out of noise and thus to create information out
of random energies where there is no signal; this is the "projection
principle"; noise is creatively used in non-noise models. The information
"created" from the noise can be shown by careful analysis to have been in the
storage system of the computer, i.e., the operation of projection moves
information out of storage into the perception apparatus so that it appears
to originate in the chosen "outside" noisily excited system.
Demonstrations of this principle are multiferous: in a single mode, listening
to a real acoustic physical white noise in profound isolation in solutude one
can hear what one wants (or fears) to hear, human voices talking about one,
or one's enemies discussing plans, etc. With LSD_25 one can use two modes:
one can isten to white noise (including very low frequencies) and see desired
(or feared) visions projected on the blank screen on one's closed eyes. One
can, in profound isolation (water suspension, silence, darkness, isothermal
skin, etc., in solitude) detect the 'noise level of the mind itself' and use
it for cognitional projections rather than sense-organ-data projections.
Instead of seeing or hearing the projected data, one feels and thinks it.
This is one basis of the mistake by certain persons of assuming that the
projected thoughts come from outside one's own mind, i.e., 'oneness with the
universe', the thoughts of 'God in one', extraterrestrial beings sending
thoughts into one, etc. Because of the lack of sensory stimuli, and lack of
normal inputs into the computer (lack of energy in the reality program), the
space in the computer usually used for the projection of data from the senses
(and hence the external world) is available substitutively for the display of
thinking and feeling.
As stated by Von Foerster ("Bio-Logic",1962):
"The occurence of such spontaneous errors is far from an uncommon
event. Conservative estimates suggest about 10^14 elementary
operations per second in a single human brain. If we can beleive the
recent work of Hyden(1960) and Pauling(1961), these operations are
performed on about 10^21 molecules. From stability considerations (Von
Foerster, 1948) we may estimate that per second from 10^9 to 10^11
molecules will spontaneously change their quantum state as a result of
the tunnel effect. This suggests that from 10^(-3) to 10^(-1) % of all
operations in the bran are afflicted with an intrinsic noise figure
which has to be taken care of in one way or another."