Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor"Can it be that any man has the skill to fabricate himself?" -- St. Augustine
02 It is not a connection of cells
03 It is a connection of information
04 It is a connection of blue vases
05 with red flowers in them
06 It is not a connection of vases
07 It is a connection of living memories
" ... and when we think of coconuts and pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain." -- Gregory Bateson
08 Where are they
09 Where are the coconuts
10 Where are the pigs
11 The brain is a network of behavioral potentialities
12 The Brain is the mind
13 The brain is the central integrative role in human performance
14 Where are the pigs
15 Where are the coconuts
16 The brain is a compendium of holographic mechanisms
17 Help me find the coconuts Help me find the pigs
18 The brain is a neuro-physiological metaphor
19 The brain is an illusionist's exercise in Euclidean geometry
20 The brain is a vibrational amplifier for ambient field quanta
21 Find me the goddamned coconuts the pigs
22 The brain is a cybernetic miracle with a three-ring
23 triune brain circus at its centre
24 The brain is an enchanted loom where millions of flashing
25 shuttles weave a dissolving pattern
26 I know I saw the coconuts
27 I know I saw the pigs
28 The brain is an evolutionary archaeological site
29 Show me those pigs one more time
30 The brain is a dance among three interconnected biological computers
31 I saw the pigs
32 I saw the coconuts
33 The brain is a bicameral structure for playing
34 epistemological handball.
35 I know you have the coconuts
36 The brain is a reality structurer with lacrimal glands
37 The brain is an international casino for quantum indeterminacy
38 The pigs
39 The pigs
40 The pigs
41 When we think of brains, there are no brains in the brain.
42 The coconuts
43 The pigs
44 The brain is a psycho-biological tar pit Give me
45 the bloody coconuts in an emotional jungle you bastard
46 or the brain is a macro-evolutional myth for the maintenance of
47 I'll bash the brain is an omnidirectional time machine
48 clogged with death consciousness
49 I could cry
50 Show me those pigs
51 Show me those coconuts
52 THE ABRIDGED CARTESIAN VERSION
53 I think, therefore I am.
54 When we think of the "I," there is no one in the brain.
55 Where am I?
56 Where am I? etc.
by Pier Giorgio di Cocco
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