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Dystopos (164 words)
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its use as a verb (to live by fraud or trickery) may be somewhat archaic
Some species of shark must continually swim to avoid asphyxiation. Something along the same lines is true of the human brain. Deprived of all inflow of sensation, it must create its own (ala John Lilly's hallucination-inducing isolation tank experimentation). "Impressions" (q.v. Gurdjieff) are "food" for the brain, grist for the mental mill.