Greetings, Friendlies! Last time I TMI’d you with the Angry-Femme Interpreter Module. Thanks for holding that. :) Re-mixing the same with the Reactivity and Threefold Training stuff from Part 19. The angry-feminist view has been known to cause a ruckus. Even when not manifesting behaviorally, it can lead to a lot of internal dukkha. Hypervigilance, […]
Tag: Interpreter Module
Greetings, Friendlies! Last time we looked at how the Interpreter Module (IM) uses not just individual pieces of information but also views and narratives when constructing the world. My IM wears some pretty thick angry-feminist goggles. And fair enough. I’m 5’4 (162cm), small framed, and for many decades, kind of adorable. I’ve worked in construction, […]
Greetings, Friendlies. :) All experience is preceded by the Interpreter ModuleLed by the Interpreter ModuleMade by the Interpreter Module#FakeBuddhaQuotes Imagine: you have volunteered for a scientific study. You arrive at the lab and the affable experimenter explains they are studying social interactions. They would like to apply theatrical makeup to your right cheek, in such […]
Greetings, Friendlies. :) Following on from our description of Simple Knowing… In The Social Brain (and in Who’s In Charge?) Gazzaniga recounts an experience illustrating the interpreter module doing its thing on top of basic sensory input. We might say Saṅkhāra-ing/Fabrication in action. Remember how, for Split-Brain Patients, you can present information to one hemisphere […]
Greetings, Friendlies. :) In some dhamma traditions a type of bhavana (cultivation/meditation) is practiced that goes by names like Bare Attention, Open Awareness, Choiceless Awareness. Presently I prefer Christina Feldman’s “Simple Knowing”. From her book Mindfulness: a way of attending where no judgment or narrative is added to the experience of the moment. A thought […]
Greetings, Friendlies! Though enormously enthusiastic about the idea of an Interpreter Module, there are plenty of unanswered questions. I present these as-is, as placeholders and acknowledgment of the current state of my understanding: And there we are. Your thoughts? Other questions/concerns?
Greetings, Friendlies. :) What happens if we take the Interpreter Module, Avijjā (as mis-understanding how our minds work), and Saṅkhāra (as “principle of construction“), and puzzle-piece them together? At least one arrangement gives us an Interpreter Module which is receiving information that is, at best, limited and conditioned, at worst, inaccurate or grossly incomplete (Avijjā). […]
Greetings, Friendlies. :) I hope it’s clear how far the interpreter module would take us from the Classical View of Humanity. We are working with an emergent property, a consciousness-of. Various modules/functions of the brain are doing their processing and then, as Gazzaniga says in Who’s in Charge?, “[competing] for attention and the winner emerges […]
Greetings, Friendlies. :) Last time we pointed out that the Interpreter module is only as good as the data it receives. A hugely important thing it does not receive is meta-data about the incoming information. Michael Gazzaniga in Who’s in Charge: “The interpreter receives the results of the computations of a multitude of modules. It […]
Greetings, Friendlies! I am so excited to be writing this post. Remember a gazillion years ago when I proposed the PPP series? It was this concept, Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Module, that was the spark that lit the whole thing off. And now I finally get to tell you about it. :))) We had the classic question […]
Greetings, Friendlies! I harbor some baseless supposition (BS?) that classical dhamma education unfolds via a structure honed over, perhaps, several thousand years? Theories and practices presented in an order and at a pace curated and refined for generations. Practical. Reproducible. Safe. I have not been the beneficiary (or victim) of such a system; coming up […]
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