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Essays on Infinite Lifespans
Manfred Clynes
from our perspective want to keep qualitatively, or improve if
possible, under timeconsciousness transformation.
Obviously, emotional communication and generation,
caresses, sighs, would have to become free of (present) body
constraints. Can that be possible without changing its qual-
ity? Or, would one hope for a transformation of quality into
something desirable unknown? It may seem unlikely that the
exploration of changing qualities of the range of experience
under timeconsciousness transformation would yield new
qualities preferable to those we know. But we do not know.
We do know already that qualities of experience in dreams are
rather similar to those in the waking state, even during this
limited transformation. How far can this be extended? What
new qualities can be created by more systematic and extensive
timeconsciousness transformations?
Already we sense that music is too slow to give us its feel-
ing and content: the visual sense, video, is overtaking it in
our culture, through its more concentrated meaning trans-
fer, with its parallel input instead of serial. A symphony takes
too long for our relatively fast paced world. Music is used as
background for the visual. What will happen to music under
timeconsciousness transformation? Its art will also be trans-
formed. Problems and related aspects of that are considered
next: logogenesis.
LOGOGENESIS
Logogenesis is the invention of nature which appears in
evolution that substitutes a quality of feeling, of experience,
for convoluted thought and for reflex activity. Logogenesis is
what creates qualia, the flavor of life. Like morphogenesis it
is genetically controlled. Quality and its cognitive substrates
arise in our brains through a genetic program details of which