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 Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be translated into the symbols of culture. For hundreds of thousands of years, time enough for genetic changes in the brain to program the algorithms of prepared learning, poisonous snakes have been a significant source of injury and death to human beings. The re-sponse to the threat is not simply to avoid it, in the way that certain berries are recognized as poisonous through painful trial and error, but to feel the kind of apprehension and morbid fascination displayed in the presence of snakes by the nonhuman primates. The snake image also attracts many extraneous details that are purely learned, and as a result the intense emotion it evokes enriches cultures around theworld. The tendency of the serpent to appear suddenly in trances and dreams, its sinuous form, and its power and mystery are logical ingredi-ents of myth and religion.
 
+#### Chapter 7
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+Complex information is thus organized and
+transmitted by language composed of words. Nodes are almost always
+linked to other nodes, so that to recall one node is to summon others.
+This linkage, with all the emotional coloring pulled up with it, is the
+essence of what we refer to as meaning. The linkage of nodes is assem-
+bled as a hierarchy to organize information with more and more
+meaning. "Hound," "hare" and "chasing" are nodes, each symbolizing
+collectively a class of more or less similar images. A hound chasing a
+hare is called a proposition, the next order of complexity in informa-
+tion. The higher order above the proposition is the schema. A typical
+schema is Ovid's telling of Apollo's courtship of Daphne, like an un-
+stoppable hound in pursuit of an unattainable hare, wherein the
+dilemma is resolved when Daphne, the hare and a concept, turns into
+a laurel tree, another concept reached by a proposition.
+
 
 ## WS Burroughs
 > Cut word lines Cut music lines Smash the control images Smash the control machine Burn the books Kill the priests Kill! Kill! Kill!