DATE
Your Mind's Potential
By
L. Ron Hubbard
The optimum computing machine is a subject
which many of us have studied. If you were building one, how
would you design it?
First, the machine should be able to
compute with perfect accuracy on any problem in the universe
and produce answers which were always and invariably right.
Second, the computer would have to be swift, working
much more quickly than the problem and process could be vocally
articulated.
Third, the computer would have to be able to handle
large numbers of variables and large numbers of problems simultaneously.
Fourth, the computer would have to be able to
evaluate its own data, and there would have to remain available
within it not only a record of its former conclusions but
the evaluations leading to those conclusions.
Fifth, the computer would have to be served by
a memory bank1 of nearly infinite capacity in which it could
store observational data, tentative conclusions which might
serve future computations and the data in the bank would have
to be available to the analytical portion of the computer
in the smallest fractions of a second.
Sixth, the computer would have to be able to rearrange
former conclusions or alter them in the light of new experience.
Seventh, the computer would not need an exterior
program director but would be entirely self-determined about
its programming guided only by the necessity-value of the
solution which it itself would determine.
Eighth, the computer should be self-servicing
and self-arming against present and future damage and would
be able to estimate future damage.
Ninth, the computer should be served by perception
by which it could determine necessity-value. The equipment
should include means of contacting all desirable characteristics
in the finite world. This would mean color-visio,2 tone-audio,
odor, tactile3 and self-perceptionsfor without the last it
could not properly service itself.
Tenth, the memory bank should store perceptions
as perceived, consecutive with time received with the smallest
possible time divisions between perceptions. It would then
store in color-visio (moving), tone-audio (flowing), odor,
tactile and self-sensationall of them cross-coordinated.
Eleventh, for the purposes of solutions,
it would have to be able to create new situations and imagine
new perceptions hitherto not perceived and should be able
to conceive these to itself in terms of tone-audio, color-visio,
odor, tactile and self-sensation and should be able to file
anything so conceived as imagined, labeled memories.
Twelfth, its memory banks should not exhaust on
inspection but should furnish to the central perceptor of
the computer, without distortion, perfect copies of everything
and anything in the banks in color-visio, tone-audio, odor,
tactile and organic sensations.
Thirteenth, the entire machine should be portable.
There are other desirable characteristics but
those listed above will do for the moment.
It might be somewhat astonishing, at first, to
conceive of such a computer. But the fact is, the machine
is in existence. There are billions of them in use today and
many, many more billions have been made and used in the past.
In fact, you’ve got one. For we are dealing with
the human mind.
The above is a generalization of the
optimum brain. The optimum brain, aside from the fact that
it is not always capable of solving every problem in the universe,
basically works exactly like that. It should have color-visio
(in motion), tone-audio (flowing), odor, tactile and organic
memory recall. And it should have color-visio (in motion),
tone-audio (flowing), odor, tactile and organic imagination,
also recallable after imagining like any other memory. And
it should be able to differentiate between actuality and imagination
with precision. And it should be able to recall any perception,
even the trivial, asleep and awake from the beginning of life
to death. That is the optimum brain, that, and much much more.
It should think with such swiftness that vocal pondering would
be utterly unable to keep pace with a thousandth part of one
computation. And, modified by viewpoint and educational data,
it should be always right, its answers never
wrong.
That is the brain you have, potentially. That
is the brain which can be restored to you unless you have
had some section of it removed. If it does not do these things,
it is slightly out of adjustment.
It took a long time to arrive at the data that
this was an optimum brain. In the beginning it was not realized
that some people had color-visio (moving) recall, for instance,
and that some did not. I had no idea that many people imagined,
and knew they were imagining, in tone-audio, et cetera, and
would have received with surprise the data that somebody could
smell and taste last Thanksgiving’s turkey when he recalled
it.
In 1938, when the researches which culminated
in Dianetics (Greek dia“through,” and
nous“mind” or “soul”) were started in earnest,
no such high opinion of the human brain was held. In fact,
the project was not begun to trace brain function and restore
optimum operation, but to know the key to human behavior and
the code law which would reduce4 all knowledge.
L. Ron Hubbard
Definitions:
1. bank: a storage of information, as
in a computer where the data was once stored on a group or
series of cards called a bank.
2. visio: the sense of sight.
3. tactile: the sense of touch.
4. reduce: to bring into a certain order;
systematize.
L.
Ron Hubbard, bestselling author and one of the leading philosophers
of our time, now reveals the incredible story of his journey
into the hidden depths of the human mind and soul. A journey
that produced his pioneering research and books in the field
of Dianetics technology.
Until
Mr. Hubbard's discoveries, the inner workings of the mind
had been considered "too complex" for the layman.
In Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, Mr. Hubbard
cuts through the complexity and the "myths of the mind"
to reveal the mechanics of human thought and action in terms
anyone can understand.
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