Is expliciting the infrastructure bad?

I thought a lot about the heuristics behind an accomplished act, behind the skeletal work and the tips and tricks underlying the successful end-product, and it seems to me that I have to give up the bias of continually considering an act in all its transparency, with well-delineated from a self-conscientious perspective phases. I have to rely on the heuristic scaffolding, to build an act even if there is a lot of infrastructure involved in its construction; expliciting it is epiphenomenal, no doubt about it. But still, reliance on the good old-fashioned way of intellectual work is not bad, either. I need to learn to combine the two into a harmonious whole.

Telepathy?

Could we ever arrive at a point when we can simply read off each other's minds, as sci-fi speculation in the manga series Ghost in the Shell suggests? It's very hard, I believe, if not impossible, to decipher inner thoughts. One way to do it, some say, would be through speech prostheses. But I already offered some rebuttals of that in a post on MentalScreen (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mentalscreen/message/80 ).Then how else? It all depends, I believe, on an understanding of the format of thoughts, of the medium in which the deductive ratiocinations take place. More about this in the near future.

Self-stimulation of the frontal lobes

It appears I now have the tools to explain why contracting my jaws sets me in a proper state of mind. The contraction stimulates the frontal lobes, the seat of higher, executive cognitive functions. I wonder whether I could find a method to substitute the cumbersome contraction with another method that would keep the lobes stimulated quasi-continually.

Neverending Story

These days are the days for me, because I am in the process of writing a cornucopia of papers dealing with topics that interest me profoundly. I am once again, after years and years, in a favourable state of mind, and it really should be the state of my mind, forever. No ugly feelings directed towards myself, just being in action as myself. A book on the neural underpinnings of our mental and behavioural life had a great impact on me. It will change me forever, I feel, and this is good, because life has regained meaning for me. I still feel that there is something in our mental makeup that goes beyond the neural cascades. It's what sets them in motion, what acts like a gestionaire of their intertwinings. This state in which I am now is truely my state of mind, I recognize myself in it, and, in this sense, my whole life should have as hallmark this state; it's a neverending story, it's difficult to keep the control forever, but not impossible. I want to do great things, I want this ambition I feel inside to last forever. The steam-roller is in action. The day has come.