Spirit17
02-22-00, 05:33 AM
There's been alot of ideas kicking around lately and I just thought I should share some of them.
~Our sense of time (as being linear) is shut off during sleep and dreaming and yet we still perceive time as being real. Just not in the normal everyday sense. This suggests very strongly that our perception of time is caused by a function of the brain. Our conscienceness perceives time as being linear so it can organize it's actions in a way that would be most beneficial to it's current state. However, when dreaming, this perception is no longer needed and therefore no longer applied. This brain function acts like a pair of sunglasses; it uses what is already in place and merely tints it in order to filter out potential hazards or distractions. Once the sun goes down (metaphorically speaking about sleeping, of course), the glasses are taken off and reality is more adequately perceived. It may be that the brain is merely dumming down this perception, or changing to a different frequency. Either way, the time perception seems so natural during dreamstate that people have a very difficult time distinguishing such an obvious difference while in the dreamstate. This furthers my belief that time is a tangible property of the universe and the way it is perceived is paramount to the outcome, despite having no
"correct" structure of perception.
If you agree with the linear structure of space/time take this experiment into consideration. An observer watching a sequence of falling domino blocks will always watch the domino that is currently in motion, the reason for this is obvious. The domino is active, it's future is probable but still unknown and therefore attention must be focused on the present. The past blocks still exist, but there relevance has been lost, the significance of this is realized in the next paragraph.
~Colour, sound and touch are other examples of the human brain bending the truth in order to nurture it's survival. We must now accept our inability to perceive the true nature of our reality is a result of an evolved bias. Nature evolves things only necessary for survival; it does not care about truth. Many creatures experience life in many different ways. Dolphins see with echolocation, fly's taste with their feet. The result of our bias says that everything we know about existence is what our brains allow us. We are born with this natural logic based thought process, binocular vision, and sense impact with touch. We have the ability to change frequencies and act accordingly because our survival depends on it. Yesterdays happenings has no physical attachment to toady’s happenings so there is no point in our brains perceiving yesterdays happenings, it's a waste of information in terms of its survival.
~Arguably spirituality can be deduced to being nothing more than a part of the brain designed to help us cope with the emotional trauma’s and ethical dilemma’s associated with death and everyday life. We can even stimulate this part of the brain in order to evoke a transcendent experience. But we should not jump to the conclusion that "God is in the brain" so to speak. That is much like saying David Letterman is in the television set. You could do all sorts of neat things to the television to make David Letterman’s image distorted or get whatever affect you desire. Manipulating the real David letterman however would prove much more difficult. This supports my belief that Brains are receptors and manipulators of reality, we should not be fooled into believing that the soul exists solely inside the brain. This assumption can be attributed to the everyday-programmed structure of thinking that our brains consider most important. This often detracts us from the larger picture.
A piece of metal can be hot, but the heat itself will eventually move on and the metal will be cooled. The heat, for a period of time, existed solely within the metal. This obviously does not mean that the heat needs metal to exist. Metal is just one of the many ways heat has of being perceived. Heat still exists; weather or not it's capable of being perceived. I believe that we measure the effects of the heat, on the metal, and not the essence of heat, as being a temporary part of the metal. The soul is temporarily absorbed by brain neurons and so on, which acts as a conscious gravity, keeping us within the body's framework. And being the control center for the rest of the body. Nothing else in the known universe is known to exhibit the effects of consciousness other than living beings. So what happens to consciousness when it's physical incarnation becomes inadequate.
~Our sense of time (as being linear) is shut off during sleep and dreaming and yet we still perceive time as being real. Just not in the normal everyday sense. This suggests very strongly that our perception of time is caused by a function of the brain. Our conscienceness perceives time as being linear so it can organize it's actions in a way that would be most beneficial to it's current state. However, when dreaming, this perception is no longer needed and therefore no longer applied. This brain function acts like a pair of sunglasses; it uses what is already in place and merely tints it in order to filter out potential hazards or distractions. Once the sun goes down (metaphorically speaking about sleeping, of course), the glasses are taken off and reality is more adequately perceived. It may be that the brain is merely dumming down this perception, or changing to a different frequency. Either way, the time perception seems so natural during dreamstate that people have a very difficult time distinguishing such an obvious difference while in the dreamstate. This furthers my belief that time is a tangible property of the universe and the way it is perceived is paramount to the outcome, despite having no
"correct" structure of perception.
If you agree with the linear structure of space/time take this experiment into consideration. An observer watching a sequence of falling domino blocks will always watch the domino that is currently in motion, the reason for this is obvious. The domino is active, it's future is probable but still unknown and therefore attention must be focused on the present. The past blocks still exist, but there relevance has been lost, the significance of this is realized in the next paragraph.
~Colour, sound and touch are other examples of the human brain bending the truth in order to nurture it's survival. We must now accept our inability to perceive the true nature of our reality is a result of an evolved bias. Nature evolves things only necessary for survival; it does not care about truth. Many creatures experience life in many different ways. Dolphins see with echolocation, fly's taste with their feet. The result of our bias says that everything we know about existence is what our brains allow us. We are born with this natural logic based thought process, binocular vision, and sense impact with touch. We have the ability to change frequencies and act accordingly because our survival depends on it. Yesterdays happenings has no physical attachment to toady’s happenings so there is no point in our brains perceiving yesterdays happenings, it's a waste of information in terms of its survival.
~Arguably spirituality can be deduced to being nothing more than a part of the brain designed to help us cope with the emotional trauma’s and ethical dilemma’s associated with death and everyday life. We can even stimulate this part of the brain in order to evoke a transcendent experience. But we should not jump to the conclusion that "God is in the brain" so to speak. That is much like saying David Letterman is in the television set. You could do all sorts of neat things to the television to make David Letterman’s image distorted or get whatever affect you desire. Manipulating the real David letterman however would prove much more difficult. This supports my belief that Brains are receptors and manipulators of reality, we should not be fooled into believing that the soul exists solely inside the brain. This assumption can be attributed to the everyday-programmed structure of thinking that our brains consider most important. This often detracts us from the larger picture.
A piece of metal can be hot, but the heat itself will eventually move on and the metal will be cooled. The heat, for a period of time, existed solely within the metal. This obviously does not mean that the heat needs metal to exist. Metal is just one of the many ways heat has of being perceived. Heat still exists; weather or not it's capable of being perceived. I believe that we measure the effects of the heat, on the metal, and not the essence of heat, as being a temporary part of the metal. The soul is temporarily absorbed by brain neurons and so on, which acts as a conscious gravity, keeping us within the body's framework. And being the control center for the rest of the body. Nothing else in the known universe is known to exhibit the effects of consciousness other than living beings. So what happens to consciousness when it's physical incarnation becomes inadequate.