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THE INTELLIGENCE BENEATH KNOWING

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You contain intelligence you cannot remember.

ORIGINATING DOCTRINE

DOC-017 • Conscious knowing may be one form of intelligence rather than its boundary.

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WHAT THIS STUDY IS FOR

Loosen the assumption that the conscious narrator is the whole intelligence of the organism.

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You contain intelligence you do not know about. You contain intelligence you cannot understand. You may contain intelligence you should not understand. And perhaps “you contain it” is backwards. Perhaps, for a while, it contains you.

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You do not consciously direct cell division, balance, immune response, perception, or most of the processing that makes a coherent moment possible. The narrator receives a tiny portion and calls it “my mind.”

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A SNAKE QUESTION

Who exactly did you think was running the operation?

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List things your organism does intelligently without your

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conscious instructions.

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