Notes
Notes and asides reflecting the perspectives of various academic disciplines
The Baby Maker
"It was only after extensive investigation, multiple malpractice lawsuits, and a criminal trial that his patients - and the nation - learned the truth. The babymaker was actually a fraud who had perpetrated a cruel hoax… by inseminating other patients with his own sperm, in some cases replacing the intended father’s sperm with his own." [...]
Biological Disaster Story
"Burroughs imagines the beginning of humanity as a biological disaster story. Apes become human as a result of a virus infection that kills most of the species and mutates the rest. The survivors feel a painful invasion of their bodies by an external force that gradually produces human behavior. Humanity develops from language ("the talk [...]
Biology cannot be invented
"[We] exist only as the legitimate outcome of the forces that we express. [Even] if we are the genetic experiment of a scientifically advanced race, the experiment can only be a manipulation of existing lifeforms; it does not include the invention of our whole existence. Our genes can be synthesised, or rearranged; the biological frame [...]
The Brain as parasite
"Reich has suggested that the brain may have become so large and complex that it acts essentially as a parasite, sucking up energy from the body, particularly from the pelvis. This may account for the frequent eye block problem of intellectuals and the so-called "intellectual look" of the "egghead." - Man in the Trap, Elsworth [...]
The Brain Radio
"A new cosmology is emerging that says there are many more dimensions than this one -that earth exists in one particular dimension that has a particular atomic frequency - that other frequency forms from other dimensions can penetrate and even overlap our Space-Time, as different radio and TV signals can move together in a single [...]
