[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflections #11

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From: L. Michael Hall

2008 Meta Reflections #11

March 17, 2008



PERSONAL 

TIME-BINDING





In the two previous Reflections about the process and dynamic of time-binding I have followed Korzybski on its social affects on us and how we are all indebted to the intellectual capital and incredible "wealth" left to us by those who have gone before. Yet there's another side to time-binding that is very personal. It relates to how each of us time-bind as part of our learning history which explains why our early family experiences are so formative.

Because we do not inherit what we know, because knowledge comes from learning, not from our DNA, and because as the human species we are unique in lacking content knowledge about how to be, our development and self-actualization is completely dependent upon our learning. And given our self-reflexive consciousness, we have a form of consciousness unlike that in any other creature. Our self-conscious mind is so self-reflective that we can observe our own experiences, our own thoughts and emotions, our own behaviors and actions.

Our self-conscious mind also has access to most of the data stored in our long-term memory. What this means is that we can use this information intentionally and consciously to plan our future. Being able to observe our behaviors allows us to evaluate that behavior and to consciously decide if it's working or not and to choose how to respond if it is not. It is in this process that we are able to override old programmed habits and to consciously change.

While this is a special gift, it comes with a special weakness. Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief) says that it is our brain's ability to learn that enables us also to "learn perceptions," and that we can acquire perceptions indirectly from others- from parents, teachers, peers, etc. Yet once we accept the perceptions of others as true, as our truths-these perceptions become our programs. Lipton describes how they then become "hardwired into our own brains." In this way we can download the mis-perceptions from others into our brains and nervous systems. That is, as time-binders we can bind the mis-perceptions and false concepts of others into our own nervous system.

Woha! We can bind the mis-perceptions and false concepts of others into our own nervous system??!!

Personal time-binding of the perceptions of others is the foundation for excellence and delight and it is also the foundation for creating a living hell. By it we can model and replicate the excellence and expertise in others. Instead of relying only upon trial-and-error learning where we have to learn and experience everything first-hand, we can utilize second-hand learning and third-hand learning, etc. The danger is that if we model and replicate the misery of another, the neurosis of an exemplar, the misunderstandings of someone-we time-bind that which is hurtful, destructive, and even morbid into ourselves.

Personal time-binding relates most powerfully to what happened in our earliest life before we learned how to use our self-reflexive consciousness to quality control the contents of what we were exposed to and so learned. To the extent that the people in our lives suffered from mis-perceptions, erroneous ideas, fallacious beliefs, and cognitive distortions-to that extent we probably picked up such things and bound them into our nervous system. That's why it's often said that most of adult life is an attempt to get over our childhood (!).

What we now have to get over is the non-sense of our childhood time-binding. This is part of the growing up and maturing process, identifying and replacing our cognitive distortions, and learning to effectively use our reflexivity so that we are constantly able to clean out old perceptions and meanings.

Nor does it end with childhood. We are continually exposed every day to the perceptions and mis-perceptions of others via television, radio, new, internet, emails, gossip, etc. And every day we are binding things that others have learned or created in their times.

Now the backside of time-binding is unlearning. And unlearning is just as significant for success and self-actualization as learning. That's why accelerating our learning with the newest techniques is never enough; we need to be able to accelerate our skills at unlearning as well in order to clear the path for new learnings. 

[If you recall, I wrote three Meta Reflections last year on the Crucible as a Neuro-Semantic process for unlearning.]

The power of time-binding for creating exponential progress and creativity lies in binding time- it lies in binding useful, effective, and life-enhancing learnings into ourselves. The same exponential power becomes a living-hell for us if, as a time-binding class of life, we bind into ourselves perceptions that are non-ecological and dis-empowering.

In a way, personal time-binding is a form of modeling. And it occurs, at its best, when we download into ourselves the perceptions of the wise and the mature self-actualizers. So with your time-binding energies and potentials take care to quality control what you time-bind!



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