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Offered by David Apollo

Author's Note

You are reading Version 1.3 of The Credible & Consistent Sense of Reality Personality Spectrum Tapestry.

Common bond.

Ride Safe.

I'll be back.

The following statement was inserted in Nov 2017:

We all have this weird way of attaching significance to things that goes beyond the rational and gets into the psychological. Everyone is a little different. Maybe its instinctual. Me, I seem to save things. I can get rid of them, but it can take awhile. I've discovered that much of what I thought I had a rational reason for was actually an "instinctual decision" around which I instinctively wrapped a "rational wrapper."

Back in October, I was walking towards the house. The two garages were in front of me. The large one, open, where our cars are parked. And the small one, door closed. Usual. But something tugged at me.

My son called. And he says, "Happy Birthday!" And I said, "Who told you that?"

You see, my usual birthday is in April. The day he called was October 6th.

"This is the day you had your accident, so I was calling to wish you Happy Birthday."

I said, "I have told only a few people that I consider October 6th the day I was born again. But only a few. I have fun with stuff like that. But I never told you. How did you find out?"

He said, "Nobody told me. I knew because you are my Dad."

So then I said, "Let me tell you how I related to what today is today. Do you want to hear?"

He said, "Yeah, I have a little time."

"I am walking towards the house, and I did know what today was. Kind of thinking about it. When anyone I know thinks about it they think about what happened to me. But I don't really. I'm fine now, so I don't think about the accident or the healing."

He says, "So what do you think about then?"

"Well, I'm walking back to the house, and I see the Third garage. And I know that at around 1 to 1:05PM, on Tuesday, October 6th, 2015, my motorcycle backed out of that garage. And ... it never came back."

And then, I got caught by surprise. Because right then I felt this emotion come over me, like a sadness. Because a friend had died, and never came back. I wasn't thinking about me. I was thinking about my motorcycle.

Important → On this day, my slight Attachment to Some Things had resurfaced. ← Important

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This chapter uses the events described herein as an opportunity to identify examples of the cognitive subroutines responsible for The Credible & Consistent Sense of Reality.

On Oct 6, 2015, many if not most of my cognitive processes went offline. They were not destroyed, they did not "evaporate". But they did go offline. Then, as you will see, they came back online again, in sequence, gradually, some obviously prerequisites for those that would follow. The Cognitive Reboot.

That is why this chapter is written. For the Science that may be gleaned or inspired from it. Only.

But sometimes ... I do wonder ... did "I" ever come back?

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When together, we both experience the same factual Reality as we unfold with it. We experience it differently because we are each built to detect and process it differently. Reality does NOT depend on what my perception (or your perception) of it may be.

Which interpretation most accurately describes what Reality actually factually is? - David Apollo

I do not want what I am sharing with you to be some sort of well written Imaginary Narrative, based on the history of what might actually have happened. If you want that, go watch a good movie. No, I want this to be Truthfully Factually Credible.

Though I am doing everything I can to assure that ... truthfully I don't actually know how to assure that.

Enough said.

This chapter, Gratitude, Rebirth, Moving Forward, has been written in stages, encompassing three parts:

• Part 1 spans the month of October, 2015.
• Part 2 will span the 6 months from Nov 2015 thru Apr 2016.
• If there is much of a Part 3, it will cover anything interesting after Apr 2016. Come to think of it, there are interesting unfoldings that occurred during Part 3.

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Finally, why am I interested in journaling this? Accurately.

I have an interest in the mechanism of cognition. An interest in actually understanding just how cognition, especially human cognition, personality, behavior, perspective, response, and instinct are made possible via the biological structures within which it is executed and expressed.

This concept has been discussed many times elsewhere within the ConserveLiberty resource. Sometime after the accident and initial recovery described below, I realized that the stages that I was going through as I regained fully my normal cognitive abilities might be informative and insightful for the legitimate (scientifically skeptical) research community, but only if I wrote them down.

With the accident, my ability to engage in creative and critical thinking went significantly offline along with many of the cognitive functions that are a prerequisite for the Critical Thinking Ensemble. Those also came back (I say), observed one twinkle at a time, little by little. This chapter focuses on the foundational prerequisites for cognitively participating with the environment and others within a Credible & Consistent Sense of Reality. Those are a prerequisite for the Critical Thinking Ensemble posted after this one was released.

And so, initially after a year and a half, and in revisions thereafter, I have recapitulated in print what I believe I actually cognitively experienced during a Cognitive Reboot. As best as I am able to do. Based on the journals and recordings of others who witnessed the unfolding healing and rehabilitation described. And my own observations as I was coming back online! As I have gone through the organizing and analysis of all I have put together so far, I believe I have uncovered several of the "subroutines" that we are all built with, to one degree or another.

→ The Author's Note was last updated 07 Mar 2018 17:10 PST ←

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