TOTAL AMNESIA EXCERPT:WHY DO ANIMALS SEEM LIKE LESSER CREATURES?

“Is the same true for animals Espree? Is each animal is a Spirit Trapped in a body?”

            “Not all of them.  You see a body does not need a spirit inhabiting it in order for it to function.  A beetle, for instance, is just a biological unit and operates like a robot―the only difference being that the creators of the gene pattern paid a fee to allow them to use the patented ‘replication’ process.  A horse on the other hand is usually animated by a spirit, but unfortunately the spirit is immersed in a massive body with a simplistic brain.  It would be like loading software on a 20 year old computer.  The simple brain of a horse would be the hardware, the mind, the software.  Some of the computations will run very effectively on a horse, but only a few simple programs―such as their ability to make their body run, acquire food and to mate.   Most advance programs will not even run, and for those that do, it is like watching the ‘hourglass’ on your computer screen tumble over and over.  Try to talk to a horse and their ability to grasp the concept of language is so slow that they never catch on―their hardware/software package runs the program so sluggishly that the horse would literally die of old age before the hourglass stopped tumbling and he began to comprehend.  The spirit inhabiting the body is so restricted in its perceptions by the brain that it gives the appearance of being rather dull, when, in actuality, it is simply suppressed by the inability of its Mechanical Mind to compute.”

            She smiles.  “But if you can get through to a horse with spiritual communication – such as the ‘telepathy’ you sense between us―they are no different than you or I.  I love communicating with animals―they don’t have as many computations running as humans and so the communication is much more pure.

            “OK Professor Doolittle.”

“It does not mean the spirit attached to―say a dog―is any less capable and aware than you or I; they are just unlucky.  They were designated a dog body with very slow hardware.  But Tim, this isn’t really a brain problem.  This is way, way down the line. The actual problem is that a spirit has been totally suppress and overwhelmed.  It has been essentially brainwashed to consider that it needs a body to be alive and a brain to think―and in this state, it WILL use the brain and the Mechanical Mind in order to think.  Its thinking is based upon data that has been programmed into its brain via its mind.  It thinks like a computer “thinks” in a preprogrammed response on programmed data.  It observes through the filter of the mind and only uses that data to reason with.  It would be the same as being hooked up to a computer game.  You only see what the program sees, you only do what the software and hardware allows you to do, don’t you see?”

So you’re saying I’m perceiving only what my mind is allowing me to perceive, right now as we speak?”

Espree hesitates.  I can tell she wants to say “yes”, but instead she says “Let’s take it a step at a time.”