Lilly is an out-of-the-box thinker for sure.

He will probably introduce Sensory Deprivation tanks, ketamine-induced-visions,
and various dolphin dialects to the Offense.

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John C Lilly
…Career overview

Lilly was a physician and psychoanalyst. He made contributions in the fields of biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, computer science, and neuroanatomy. He invented and promoted the use of an isolation tank as a means of sensory deprivation.[4] He also attempted communication between humans and dolphins.[5] His work helped the creation of the United States Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

Lilly’s eclectic career began as a conventional scientist doing research for universities and government. Gradually, however, he began researching unconventional topics. He published several books and had two Hollywood movies based partly on his work. He also developed theories for flotation.

Lilly published 19 books, including The Center of the Cyclone, which describes his own LSD experiences, Man and Dolphin, and The Mind of the Dolphin which describe his work with dolphins.

In the 1980s Lilly directed a project which attempted to teach dolphins a computer-synthesised language. Lilly designed a future “communications laboratory” that would be a floating living room where humans and dolphins could chat as equals and where they would develop a common language.

Lilly envisioned a time when all killing of whales and dolphins would cease, “not from a law being passed, but from each human understanding innately that these are ancient, sentient earth residents, with tremendous intelligence and enormous life force. Not someone to kill, but someone to learn from.”[6] In the 1990s Lilly moved to the island of Maui in Hawaii, where he lived most of the remainder of his life.

Lilly’s literary rights and scientific discoveries were owned by Human Software, Inc., while his philanthropic endeavors were owned by the Human Dolphin Foundation. The John C. Lilly Research Institute, Inc. continues to research topics of interest to Lilly and carry on his legacy.
Research

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Lilly was forced to stay on as a member of the faculty working under Dr. Detlev Bronk for 19 years of indebted servitude, conducting priority military research for the U.S. Air Force.[citation needed]

During World War II, Lilly researched the physiology of high-altitude flying and invented instruments for measuring gas pressure. After the war, he trained in psychoanalysis at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began researching the physical structures of the brain and consciousness. In 1951 he published a paper showing how he could display patterns of brain electrical activity on a cathode ray display screen using electrodes he devised specially for insertion into a living brain. Furthermore, Lilly’s work[7] on electrical stimulation of the nervous system gave rise to biphasic charge balanced electrical stimulation pulses (later known as “Lilly’s wave” or “Lilly’s pulses”[8] ), which is currently an established approach to design of safe electrical stimulation in neuroprosthetics.[9]

Development of the sensory deprivation tank

Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John C. Lilly in 1991

In 1953, Lilly began a job studying neurophysiology with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps. At the N.I.M.H. in 1954,[10][11][12][13] with the desire of isolating a brain from external stimulation, he devised the first isolation tank, a dark soundproof tank of warm salt water in which subjects could float for long periods in sensory isolation. Lilly and a research colleague were the first to act as subjects of this research. What had been known as perceptual isolation or sensory deprivation was reconceptualized as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique (R.E.S.T.).[14]

Lilly later studied other large-brained mammals and during the late 1950s he established a facility devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication: the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. During the early 1960s, Lilly and coworkers published several papers reporting that dolphins could mimic human speech patterns.[15][16] Subsequent investigations of dolphin cognition have generally, however, found it difficult to replicate his results.[citation needed]

S.E.T.I.

Lilly was interested in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (S.E.T.I.) project. In 1961 a group of scientists including Lilly gathered at the Green Bank Observatory to discuss the possibility of using the techniques of radio astronomy to detect evidence of intelligent life outside the Solar system. They called themselves The Order of the Dolphin after Lilly’s work with dolphins. They discussed the Drake equation, used to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in our galaxy.[17]

Exploration of human consciousness

In the early 1960s, Lilly was introduced to psychedelic drugs such as LSD and (later) ketamine[18] and began a series of experiments in which he ingested a psychedelic drug either in an isolation tank or in the company of dolphins. These events are described in his books Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone, both published in 1972. Following advice from Ram Dass, Lilly studied Patanjali’s system of yoga (finding I. K. Taimni’s Science of Yoga, a modernized interpretation of the Sanskrit text, most suited to his goals). He also paid special attention to Self-enquiry meditation advocated by Ramana Maharshi, and was reformulating the principles of this exercise with reference to his human biocomputer paradigm (described in Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone).

Lilly later traveled to Chile and trained with the spiritual leader Oscar Ichazo (whose attitude to metaphysical consciousness exploration Lilly characterized as “empirical” in his book The Center of the Cyclone). Lilly claimed to have achieved the maximum degree of satori-samādhi consciousness during his training.

Lilly’s maxim: “In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits. However, in the province of the body there are definite limits not to be transcended.”[19]

Solid State Intelligence

Solid State Intelligence (S.S.I.) is a malevolent entity described by Lilly (see The Scientist). According to Lilly, the network of computation-capable solid state systems (electronics) engineered by humans will eventually develop (or has already developed) into an autonomous bioform. Since the optimal survival conditions for this bioform (low-temperature vacuum) are drastically different from those needed by humans (room temperature aerial atmosphere and adequate water supply), Lilly predicted (or “prophesised”, based on his ketamine-induced visions) a dramatic conflict between the two forms of intelligence.[citation needed]

Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

Now Trump has chickened out of the debate with Bernie.

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Yeah, i was surprised Trumps handlers were gonna let him try that.

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waterfield wrote:

If elected. For those of us who are genuinely concerned about our environment and its impact on our work force and-for that matter-all of us -this is what the guy’s goals are on the subject.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-clinches-nomination-05262016-snap-story.html

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We’re out of time on climate change. And Hillary Clinton helped get us here
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/07/out-of-time-climate-change-hillary-clinton

…A new paper from Oxford University, published in the journal Applied Energy, concludes that for humanity to have a 50-50 chance of meeting the temperature targets set in Paris, every new power plant has to be zero-carbon, starting next year.

That is hard. Really hard. At a bare minimum, it requires a willingness to go head-to-head with the two most powerful industries on the planet – fossil-fuel companies and the banks that finance them. Hillary Clinton is uniquely unsuited to this epic task.

While Clinton is great at warring with Republicans, taking on powerful corporations goes against her entire worldview, against everything she’s built, and everything she stands for. The real issue, in other words, isn’t Clinton’s corporate cash, it’s her deeply pro-corporate ideology: one that makes taking money from lobbyists and accepting exorbitant speech fees from banks seem so natural that the candidate is openly struggling to see why any of this has blown up at all.

To understand this worldview, one need look no further than the foundation where Hillary Clinton works and that bears her family name. Its mission can be distilled as follows: There is so much private wealth sloshing around our planet (thanks in very large part to the deregulation and privatisation frenzy that Bill Clinton unleashed on the world while president) that every single problem on earth, no matter how large, can be solved by convincing the ultra-rich to do the right things with their loose change. Naturally, the people to convince them to do these fine things are the Clintons, the ultimate relationship brokers and dealmakers, with the help of an entourage of A-list celebrities.

The problem with Clinton World is structural. It’s the way in which these profoundly enmeshed relationships – lubricated by the exchange of money, favours, status and media attention – shape what gets proposed as policy in the first place…. see link

Ozoneranger wrote:

Some Irish folk will take Trump expats, too. I just got back from there two days ago.

Epic vacation, great people, great beer…even the driving on the left from the right seat was enjoyable…

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What was the most memorable thing about the trip?

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PA Ram wrote:

“TurfShowTimes
‏@TurfShowTimes
Jeff Fisher is nine losses away from having more career losses than any coach in NFL history.”

Let’s hope it takes him more than one season to get the record.

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Yeah, there’s probably a lot of ‘loss’ records he either owns
or is closing in on.

But i think most of us on this board agree he’s not a ‘bad coach’.
He’s just not. Despite the Record, which includes a lot more mediocre records than good ones, and despite the many years since he’s had a playoff team.

He is not a bad coach. He’s a losing coach most of the time,
but…there’s a reasonable explanation for that 🙂

Some folks are just “you are what your won-loss record says you are” types
and to them, thats as far as it goes. And i got no problem with that. Let a thousand flowers wither and be eaten by 17 year locusts.

Personally, though, I think the won-loss-folks are in for some
confusing times over the next five years. Cause i think the LA Rams
are gonna be looking pretty good, pretty soon. Not sure about this year, with a rookie QB, but I think good records are coming soon.

And wouldnt it be ironic if Fisher started putting playoff teams on the field year after year — and then he got fired after three or four Ten and eleven win seasons. I could see that happening. I could see him being a playoff-coach but not a Ring Winner, and i could see people getting sick of “that”.

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Yeah, Denmarkians are happier and have a better quality of life
and they do it all better. Most Smart people know that. Its a given.

Now the real issue To ME, is not whether and why Denmark (and other nations)
are Better than America — the issue to ME, is how and why the
corporate-media in America PREVENTS joe and jane amerika from KNOWING
this stuff. Denmark is totally completely uttlerly and forever-ly off the radar
in the corporate-media. They dont cover it. It might as well be Pluto.

Now why would that be?

Why do only certain nations exist to the corporate-media? Iran exists. North Korea exists. Iraq exists. Israel exists. Mexico exists. Some others.

But nations like Denmark? The ones that have a higher quality of life — not allowed to examine that or look at that, or show the joe and jane amerika anything about that.

Strange, aint it.

Ask joe or jane amerika what they associate ‘socialism’ with and they
will say Stalin or Hitler. Thats all they know. Other than, “its Failed everywhere”.

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Zooey wrote:

Well, we can’t afford any of those programs because we are richer than Denmark. So forget it.

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LoL

Sometimes u hit chords as perfectly as Tom Tomorrow.

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You know what made me hold my smile an extra beat,
when Kaepernik fumbled on the goal-line?..
… Just thinking of the pain it caused
Chris Berman.

Yes.

Schadenfreude Ram

snowman wrote:

… People need to realize that Trump is all campaign and no leadership…
… just said things out of his ass because that’s how you do business, by telling people what they want to hear…

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Well, Reagan didnt have a plan either, and just told people what
they wanted to hear, and he got himself elected that way.

So that formula can work just fine.

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waterfield wrote:

The training of lawyers:

An interesting personal experience that validates WV’s post on how lawyers are trained to think: First day in law school and first class -Torts. Literally weeks had gone into my preparation for this first day. Mostly out of fear. Read all the cases, outlined them, even researched the issues in the library and ended up “knowing what was right”. Come to class which had about 60 people. Professor Kleinberg tells everyone to close their books and put away all written material they have brought. He then brings out a wooden spoon and a wooden fork. He starts by calling each student by name to stand up and tell him what they see. The first 20 or so students say roughly the same thing:” I see a wooden spoon and a wooden fork” Sometime around half way through the session a middle age woman stands up and says: I see two utensils”. Then someone else gets the idea: “I see two tools”. Another:”I see pieces of art”. Still another: “I see two weapons”, etc,etc. After class there was a rush to the podium with many asking the prof. what about the cases I spent so much time reading and outlining? Kleinberg says: ” if by the end of this semester you don’t understand the exercise we just went through you should not be a lawyer”. I went to his retirement not long ago and-you guessed it-he brought out his wooden “utensils”. (He also confessed that when he was a young student at Yale that same exercise was trust upon his initial class)

True story.

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Good story.

I remember i didnt really figure out what my law-professors meant by “thinking like a lawyer” until about half-way through my first year. I mean, it took me that long to figure it out. Coz the teachers always acted like it was a great mystery that we had to ‘discover’ or figure out….

It annoys me that they treated it like a zen koan,
instead of just stating flat out, that it means learning
to see cases from all kinds of angles and being creative in how
you interpret arguments and patterns and stuff.

I do like the spoon thing, but I would have followed that up
with a plain, straight, explanation-example of what the point is/was.

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Herzog wrote:

I suppose we’ll find out once team activities start.

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My wild-speculation is…he’s not very good.

I just wasn’t impressed with his several-game-streak of catching
some balls. I mean, none of the catches made me go “wow, that guy really
did something special there.”

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Cal wrote:

Look at the ACA–people want something done. A system where insurance executives make tens of millions every year while Americans struggle to pay or can’t pay for medical makes no sense.

And the system that Clinton supports and defends–the ACA–doesn’t really solve anything. Americans are still struggling to pay the rising costs of prescriptions and medical care.

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Obama-care is a crock of @@@@. I know this because i have conversations with working-poor every week. The pro-Insurance crowd likes to remind everyone of how millions of people are now “covered by health insurance”. Which sounds good. (Course there’s still millions who are not covered)

But when I have actual, real conversations with those folks “covered by health insurance” i get story after story after story about, how someone was sick and they went to a doctor and the doctor wrote a prescription and the prescription cost, like $500 bucks and it was not covered by the “health insurance”. Five hundred bucks may not seem like a lot to ‘middle class’ people, but real actual poor people cannot pay that. They are already in a hole.

I hear that story so often if it wasn’t so infuriating, it would be funny.

Its very simple — Wealthy people should…not…get…to live longer,
just because they inherited a bunch of money. Wealthy people should…not…get…better health care than poor people.
Its…wrong. It astounds me that people can twist and turn and rationalize a way of ignoring that.

In the richest nation in the history of humans, certain things should not
be left to ‘the market’. Even in a capitalist country. Health care, dental care, education, and probably energy are some of those things.

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I stayed during eight years of Bush. I can handle Trump.

What is it you like BEST about trump. I’m not talking about personality
or “he stands up to the system” cliches. I mean, what actual, real,
POLICY do you like best.

He’s against NAFTA and those hideous trade agreements, right? I do
like that about him. Or am i wrong about that?

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Well, its mainly fluff so far, but still, so far, so good.

I’m sick of seeing this btw:

“…But it wasn’t just about the throws. The fact that Goff helped bring Cal from an 11-loss team his freshman year to winning the program’s first bowl game since 2008 speaks volumes about his leadership ability…”

No, it does not speak volumes about his leadership. Hundreds of QBs have
gone from one win seasons to a five-win season, to an eight-win season.
Happens all the time in College football. Young teams grow up and get
better, the coach has a good recruiting year, blah blah blah.

It doesn’t necessarily say anything about Goff’s leadership.

Having said that, sure, Goff looks like a good leader. His team mates
seem to like him a lot. So….so far, so good.

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