Can your brain be hacked?
A mere mention of hearing voices which are not from external stimuli to a doctor could immediately lead to a diagnosis of psychotic episodes which manifest themselves as hallucinations. So will the doctors tell you and most of them without your lived experience of what you have described. Only relying on their medical qualification and an apparent experience of treating every patient they had with the same medical opinion. What if they are wrong and there is actually such a thing like brain hacking?
What is a coincidence?
If you look at the definition, it says
"a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. "
My understanding of this is that it needs to be remarkable or one of a kind and with no causal connection. Nothing apparent or could be deduced or reasonably explained as a cause which resulted in producing such events or circumstances. In order words, a pattern of events which are consistent over a period of time, and which started at a point in time could not be reasonably categorised as coincidences be it remarkable as events.
I started with this definition of coincidence because what I am about to recollect could be classed as an unbelievable true story and therefore remarkable. Seen in isolation, could be classified as a series of coincidences in the real world. The events and circumstances I found myself in all have a common feature of timing and event. You can easily see with a different perspective that they are natural occurrences if you do not factor in the timing.
You would have noted that I made it a point of saying my understanding of the definition of coincidence. This leads to another question.
Can your understanding of things be altered?
Commonly referred to as reasoning. In itself, what I have just said is not remarkable because people do reason about differently from the same context of things in the real world. What I mean is, could you realised that your understanding of certain things in the real world is being altered and you are aware of the difference. This is not within the process of reasoning where you can have different ideas or thoughts and then arrived at a settled view. Which is then with a high degree of confidence what you think.
This then leads to the next question.
Do you know what your thought process is?
How you will formulate ideas, think, ask questions and then arrived at what you believe is the answer.
Do you know yourself?
You will need to, for you to understand certain aspects of what I will recollect as my lived experience of an unbelievable true story. How your mind could be conditioned to see the world differently than you know it to be. You noticed I said see the world. I should also say hear, smell, touch and taste. All of these could alter your understanding of things.
Doctors will say these could all be symptoms of a psychotic illness. Which if you research online will be the reasonable explanation you will find as an answer. It brings us back to the definition of a coincidence above.
Is there a causal connection?
My psychiatrist and psychologist could not actually tell me with a high degree of confidence what they believe is the caused of their medical diagnosis of psychotic illness. If they actually tried to do so it would have been a guess not medically proven. The only way to establish a cause is with the patient's recollection of events.
My recollection starts with being just an ordinary middle age person who has never had any mental health problems in his entire life. This unbelievable true story will involve the Metropolitan Police, the NHS and a well known establishment media organisation.
This is where the story starts, online on that well known establishment media organisation in December 2022. This is the point in time of the start of a pattern of events. What started online soon became a real life nightmare which I believe eventually cumulated to the conditioning of my mind.
Can your mind be conditioned with prompts?
Think about it. You will need to, for you to understand certain aspects of what I will recollect.
Can you make sense out of anything on the webpage above?
Your knowledge of what I call context coding will have to improve for you to understand certain aspects of what I will recollect.
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