126 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind
Perceiver belief is easily confused by feelings; a strongly emotional
denial can therefore be quite effective. However, this only removes a
single rule of conscience. It is like using a handgun to shoot at a target.
Much more effective is to use Perceiver strategy itself to cripple Perceiver
thought; this generates a mental „bomb‟ which obliterates the target and
everything around it.
I suggest that this „bomb‟ works by
attacking the implicit Perceiver
assumption which lies behind
conscience: Whenever I learn a lesson
from another individual, I assume first
and foremost that he and I are similar.
For instance, suppose that someone falls
off a cliff and hurts himself. In order to
learn from his mistake, I must assume
that there is a similarity between his
physical body and mine, and that my
body will respond to gravity and the
rocks at the bottom in the same way that
his does. Likewise, if some food
substance causes cancer in rats, then this result only applies to humans if
rat and human bodies react in similar ways.
Any noticing of similarity requires Perceiver belief, which can either be
present or absent. Therefore, if Perceiver strategy can convince itself that
there is no connection between me and another individual, then this
instantly removes all connections of conscience between us. This denial is
the „bomb‟ which can be used to obliterate conscience in some area.A
Perceiver thinking can be used to sabotage conscience:
Perceiver thought decides no connections exist between situations.
This makes conscience impossible within this context.A Notice that this strategy contains an inherent contradiction. Perceiver
thought accepts the belief that no Perceiver beliefs are possible. Therefore,
this would be classified as an example of Perceiver schizophrenia.
CONSCIENCE