Re: [-empyre-] archiving + preservation

[jon.satrom <jon@selectall.org>]

As I was reading Jaka's post, I was reminded of and interesting machine 
I read about awhile ago. I thought this might be of interest :

[*=*] jon.satrom


On May 6, 2004, Jaka Zeleznikar wrote:
> + if I understood correctly links are made more visible by being more 
> visited.
> I understood Vanevar B. and some other people that they wish something 
> similar to the way we think - and we think in emotions also (so some 
> terms in way of links might be more visible relating to our emotional 
> state and not only conceptual, so one day strongest link from rock 
> might be music and the other day geology)?

EXPERIENTIAL TYPEWRITER: Built by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram 
Dass) in the winter of 1962-1963, Cambridge, Mass. An instrument for 
recording and charting the psychedelic experience.

As cited in _Flashbacks_ by Timothy Leary, 1983, 1990; Putnam 
Publishing Group, New York.
p. 156

"The purpose of the ET was to deal with the 'words cannot express' 
aspects of accelerated-brain experience. The subject could indicate any 
of various levels of consciousness that they were unable to describe at 
the moment by pressing the appropriate buttons on the typewriter. The 
signal was recorded on a revolving drum, much the way temperatures are 
graphed in meteorological stations. After the session, when 
consciousness was operating at slower speeds, the subject would have 
leisure to examine the recorded data and describe the sequence of 
events fully and precisely."

also @ http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/5/053.html