Info-Psychology Timothy Leary
Glossary
EXO-PSYCHOLOGY:
The psychology of post-terrestrial existence.
INFO-PSYCHOLOGY:
The psychology of the post-industrial society. Precedes and complements Exo-Psychology.
DIGITAL LANGAGE OR QUANTUM LINGUISTICS:
Thoughts packaged, stored, processed and communiated in terms of quantitative patterns. H2O is the digitized (quantum) expression for lettered thoughts such as "wasser", "l'eau", "aqua ", "water'.
SPACE:
The extra-terrestrial universe, the solar system, stars galaxies usually defined as material structures.
INFO-SPACE:
Our world, the galaxy, the universe defined and measured in terms of information. The quantum universe of signals, bits, digital elements, recorded by, stored in, processed, communicated by electronic knowledge technology, the human brain and its electronic extensions.
LARYNGEAL-MANUAL (L-M):
Oral, handcrafted language. The creation of hand-made artifacts and tools. The Paleolithic, neolithic and tool-making (tribal) stages of human evolution which came after hunter-gatherer and before feudal, industrial and quantum stages.
LARVAL:
Early primitive stages of human evolution which precede space migration and attainment of individual mastery of quantum technology. LARVAL humans are instinctively, reflexively tied to collectives; they have not reached the cyber (pilot) states of auto-thinking. This term is deliberately insolent and provocative. To label fellow human beings as belonging to primitive stages of evoultion does not insure immediate popularity. This satirical usage reflects the author's traditional, Celtic playful arrogance, here inflated by jail-house blues.
DOMESTICATED PRIMATES:
Humans who do not think for themselves. Human beings who belong to tribes, states, churches, rigid organizations, nations, industrial societies. The stages which precede individual cyber-life. This is another typical snide Sufi (Gurdjieffian) barb at people who do not think for themselves. An "in joke" not appreciated by some. (Informative and funny references to DP's can be found in the following Falcon Press books presented in the order of snideness, Undoing Yourself, Prometheus Rising, Angel Tech, and Breaking the Godspell.)
POST-SYMBOLIC:
Stages of thinking which use digitized clusters of quanta rather than lettered words or vocal utterances.
COLLECTIVE:
All stages of human evolution which precede individual independence. Other synonyms: member of HIVE, HERD, FLOCK. Usually used with satirical intent (See Undoing Yourself).
TERRESTRIAL:
Stages which precede space-migration and cyber-quanturn thinking.
QUANTUM:
The word "quantum" refers to a bit, an elemental unit. The word QUANTUM used as an adjective indicates that the subject is defined in terms of numbers, clusters of digitized elements, units of information.
QUANTUM PHYSICS OR INFO?PHYSICS:
This is constrasted with the mechanical, material physics of Newton which concerned itself with such issues as mass, force, work, energy.
QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Defines a universe made up of temporary clusters of info-units, elemental off-on, digital bits.
THE QUANTUM UNIVERSE:
Is an INFO-UNIVERSE.
QUANTUM PHYSICS REFERS TO INFORMATION SCIENCE:
The decoding of the signals of the universe in the many dimensions of complexity. Whereas the Newtonian universe was composed of apparently sold matter, the INFO-UNIVERSE is made up of data structures.
THE QUANTUM PERSON:
Inhabits data-space, lives in Info-World,
QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY:
A synonym for EXO-PSYCHOLOGY Human thought and behavior described in terms of the language of numbers, computers, icons.
THE ROARING 20TH CENTURY:
Each decade of the 20th century has witnessed the emergence of information appliances and new communication-art-forms which give humans increasing access to and control of electronic (digital) information.
The quantum appliances include telephones, radio, phonographs, movies, television, portable cassette players, CB radios, home synthesizers, compact disks.
CYBER:
The word CYBER comes from the Greek kubernetes, pilot. The Heisenberg principle demonstrated that the observer determines (i.e. defines) the realities SHe confronts by the nature of the observational technologies and the maps/models used for interpretation.
THE CYBER-PERSON:
Is the individual who understands the Heisenberg principle and accepts responsibility for the realities SHe defines and inhabits. This general principle of Self-Determination has been described for millennia by Hindu-Buddhist-Gnostic-Sufi philosphers. Creative people, writers, artists, poets, dramatists, inventors, innovators, shamans, intelligent magicians have, throughout the centuries, understood this principle. They have used it to fabricate the glories of human culture and science. However, the ability of CYBER-PERSONS to create realities has been limited to symbols, icons, myths, scripts, artistic and philosophic expressions. The Information structures we call art. Until recently human ability to describe quantum realities could not extend to the material plane because of techno-quantum ignorance. During the Pre-Industrial humans, from philosophers to sultans to serfs, were helpless victims of techno-myopia. The Industrial era tremendously advanced human ability to manage material reality, on the collective scale. It was only in the Roaring 20th century that humans discovered that the universe is an Info-Structure to be explored and managed by Intelligence, i.e., Cyber-Quantum proficiency to think and build with clusters of digitized thoughts.
CYBER-QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY:
The individual accesses and pilots electronic knowledge technology for hir own personal purposes. The traditional eight attitudes of philosophy can now be redefined in terms of CYBER-QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY.
  1. COSMOLOGY:
    the theory of origins defined in Cyber or Collective terms.
    QUANTUM COSMOLOGY:
    a theory of origins which can be expressed in scientific, quantum, numerical form.
  2. POLITIC:
    a theory of domination, control, freedom, submission defined either in terms of Individuals (cyber) or collectives.
    QUANTUM POLITICS:
    a theory of domination, control, freedom expressed in psychogeometric coordinates and digital language. See the computer software program MIND MIRROR.
  3. EPISTOMOLOGY:
    the theory which defines truth (cyber-individual belief) and fact (collective-social belief).
    QUANTUM EPISTOMOLOGY:
    truth and fact expressed in digital language and quantum physical descriptions.
  4. ETHICS:
    the theory which defines good/evil (cyber-subjective) and virtue/vice (social-collective).
    QUANTUM ETHICS:
    good and virtue defined in the astro-physical language of psycho-geometry.
  5. AESTHETICS:
    a theory defining subjective-beauty and social-art, personal pleasure and rewards from the collective.
    QUANTUM AESTHETICS:
    Beauty, art, pleasure, reward defined in terms of numbers, digits, geometrics.
  6. ONTOLOGY:
    a theory about the nature of reality based on Cyber (personal) or Collective-social attitude.
    QUANTUM ONTOLOGY:
    a theory about the nature of reality defined in scientific, technological, quantum digitese.
  7. TELEOLOGY:
    a theory of evolution, devolution or stasis based on either Cyber-individual or Collective-social attitudes.
    QUANTUM TELEOLOGY:
    a theory of evolution, devolution, or stasis based on measurable indices, quantitative patterns, geometrics.
  8. ESCHATOLOGY:
    a theory of endings, both cyber-individual and collective-social. A person who is not in charge of hir own endings probably cannot fabricate a general theory of evolutionary endings.
    QUANTUM ESCHATOLOGY:
    a theory of endings based upon quantification, digitization, geometry.