COGITATE by FRONT DE CADEAUX

Front de cadeaux are back, for their fourth release they decided to do a tribute to John C.John C Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer. He was a researcher of the nature of consciousness using mainly isolation tanks, dolphin communication, and biophysics, sometimes in combination. During the early 1960s, Lilly and co-workers published several papers reporting that dolphins could mimic human speech patterns. Subsequent investigations of dolphin cognition have generally, however, found it difficult to replicate his results. About 1971 John Lilly made the experiment producing what is called a "repeating loop" -- in other words, he spoke the word "Cogitate" once and it was electronically repeated over and over utilizing a special disc to ensure unvarying repetition. This Lilly experience shows notate changes in sounds and meanings i.e. "conscious tape... conjure tape.. count your tape... ", etc. Do this until all variants have been exhausted including alterations in meter, i.e. "tape counter", etc. Keeping the attention on the fact that the loop is precise and unvarying and that the changes can only occur through loss of attention. Keep in mind that there is not and cannot be any alteration in the repeating loop, other than perceptual changes permitted by your mind. In 1974, Lilly's research using various psychoactive drugs led him to believe in the existence of a certain hierarchical group of cosmic entities, the lowest of which he later dubbed Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.) The funiest thing is that 18 years later, Sega games will refer to this cosmic entity when the central character of the game is a dolphin, obviously, called Ecco!