Christopher King comments on Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

[Christopher King]

Frankly I expect almost nobody to correctly identify those words of mine as internally visible mental phenomena after reading them

One of the ways you can get up in the morning, if you are me, is by looking in the internal direction of your motor plans, and writing into your pending motor plan the image of you getting out of bed in a few moments, and then letting that image get sent to motor output and happen.

Hmm, isn’t that just psychocybernetics? From Wikipedia:

What’s traditionally called the “subconscious mind” isn’t a “mind” but a cybernetic mechanism built on our nervous system.

• it can accept a goal—image and an emotion determines if it accepts it

• The mechanism has sensing equipment like the eyes and ears

• The various systems, primarily the musculature and nervous systems, propel the mechanism

• The nervous system works with other systems as the correcting device

• The memory can be used to see past successes, making future success more likely