hyman@sundae2.DAB.GE.COM (05/27/89)
Open letter to anyone desiring to help me in my quest for a
new career,
I have both a B.S.E.E. and a M.S.E.E (Electronic Engineering)
and have worked as an R&D engineer in the field of real-time
visual systems for flight simulators, in hardware design,
software development, algorithm development, and system
integration areas for the past twenty years. However, I strongly
desire a career change to an area of greater personal interest,
and am thus seeking contacts and ideas relative to this end.
I am very interested in applying my technical problem
solving capabilities towards aiding humanity in its quest for a
better life in a better world, a world in which people have
learned the methodologies for developing and maintaining a strong
mutual respect for all life and the preservation of our
environment. In order to attain this end, I believe that the real
problems need to be identified and attacked, rather than only the
symptoms, as seem to be the case with modern day approaches. For
example, problems such as drug abuse wouldn't exist if the demand
for drugs was not present. The solution then, is not to try to
legislate morality by focusing most of the effort on making drugs
illegal, but to identify and treat the causes of drug dependancy
in the first place. To this end, it appears to me that one of the
major underlying causes of our problems is our inability to
understand and deal with our basic emotional/behavioral
mechanisms. Each individual's state of mind must become a topic of
paramount importance and universal concern. Healthy minds help
make for healthy bodies and a healthy world. I am most anxious to
focus my problem solving abilities and efforts to this most noble
research cause, of understanding the mechanisms operating within
our thick human skulls, and to develop techniques for their
quantification, and correction of deficiencies.
Certainly, some means must exist for effeciently and
accurately identifying, quantifying, and modifying our emotional
reactions to life, so that all humans can firstly experience a
full range of emotions and subsequently deal with them in a
healthy manner. The intent of this approach is not to remove or
manipulate individualism, but to provide the means for insuring
that each individual is given the choice of being able to
percieve life to the fullest extent of their naturally given
potentials and to have available to then the tools to deal with
them in turn. One possible avenue of approach could be utilizing
music as a tool for aiding in the characterization and
stimulation of human emotions. To this end, I would more than
welcome any suggestions as to how and where I might become
involved in research relating to the generation, perception,
physiological, and psychological effects of music, or any other
medium, with the underlying motivation being to develop an
understanding and treatment methodology for our
emotional/behavioral system.
Thanks for your time,
Mark Hyman (hyman@sunny.DAB.GE.COM)
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