My Library

As he stated, "the hypothesis that stimuli which are too weak or brief to enter conscious experience may, nevertheless, affect a person’s NERVOUS SYSTEM (emphasis added) and therefore influence aspects of his behavior" by being processed through a number of information transfer entities. Here I will direct your attention back to the content of Chapter 2, in which affects on a person’s NERVOUS SYSTEM played the seminal role in Kazhinski’s original research, followed on by other early Soviet researchers. If actual living human beings are considered, there can be little doubt that Dixon’s hypothesis is true. We live in an ocean of stimuli we don’t perceive or recognize -- and our moods, physical and mental activity, and our behavior can very easily be modified or changed temporarily or permanently by those stimuli. But what was most electrifying to me about Dixon’s book were the many box-and-flow layouts which showed how the human bio-mind PROCESSES INFORMATION of all kinds -for example, from input of subliminal stimuli to output of cognitive awareness. I’ll not dwell on those processes here because some of them will be illustrated later on in this book. The concepts in both of the books briefly reviewed above were to play significant roles in the years ahead -- even though at the time I didn’t at all conceive of years ahead.