A Cultural Absorber

Dos started talking to Padoke, who was asleep. This is the reason he didn’t interrupt Dos and Dos managed to say all he wished to say.

When I accepted that I am simply an absorber of the culture that I belong to, neural pathways became established and set beliefs that impeded further intelligent development.

I definitely have the power to turn a light globe on and off. Several fellow travelers at different times, have said that I have the power to annoy them. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen often. That is about the limit of my powers in this culture. I can only express this in the privacy of my own neural pathways. This is called thinking; I have been told.

As an absorber of the culture, funny things happen to me sometimes. For example, I can get excited watching a football game and even yell out silly things, like, YEH!!!! I think that is where the Beatles got some of their lyrics from, football, that is.

Once, I thought I had an original thought, only to find out later that someone had the same thought one hundred years before me and had gone to the trouble to write it down.

Now when I become aware of something, I try to find out where it came from and when and how my neural pathways were exposed to it.

I have adopted the idea that the neural pathways retain everything that they are exposed to. Sometimes, I get upset at what I have been exposed to, because I feel it will be stored in my neural pathways for as long as I exist. It could also affect my beliefs and behavior.

The storage shed in my head can never fill up from pulses dumped there by the neural pathways. The pulses may never get catalogued, but they are there somewhere.

The closes description of this messy storage shed is called, the mind. Problems within humanoids, amongst humanoids and caused by humanoids can be attributed to randomly selected pulses from a messy storage shed, triggering irrational behavior.