...of the human mind...
bismillahirrahmanirrahim...
it seems that wisdom not within me these past few weeks, my brain has simply frozen from the tonnes of other stuff that i was unable to think about stuff that i like most...
well, anyways, it was a bang in the head that made me thinking, so i suppose it would be fun to post it here...
it was simply today en route to my computing lab that my head made acquaintance with the door of the Ethos gym, which was, i may add, not too pleasant an experience...
but that set in motion the thought of how wonderful our brain and us being alive is...
i mean, the amount of information that is available in this world of ours, even with only a limited array of sensory inputs, is so very immense that it is mind boggling how our brains manage to keep up...
a simple example, when one gets up from bed, all the 5 sensory organs are activated, though some maybe more sluggish than other, but that's the idea...
even when we are devoid of light and perhaps sound, with the existence of the semi-circular canals in our ears, with the help of the electrical signals coming from the nerves at the ends of our skins and also some memory of the layout of our room, will aid us in finding our way to get some illumination in the room, via a flick of a switch...
this is rather an interesting point, because curiously, we tend to forget that electricity may not be available at the time when we are opening the switch. we seem to trust our memories, and trust that with the movement of the switch, electricity will flow into the light bulb or whatever bulb and through the laws of physics, we will have light. why? i have no idea...
if the idea that time is simply a statistical averaging of the universe, than it is most curious that we trust our memories, because it may not be apparent at that particular point of averaging that the same result will always be true for the same action...
coming back to the story, we then have some illumination, which will serve to guide us along the maze of solids around the room; that which we call furniture...
the we start to balance our 2 feet on the floor. and with a series of controlled falls that we call the action as walking, we commence our journey to the end of the day...
all this while, the brain is very2 careful not to let anything harm the body. that is, if we are about to fall from our bed, we will impulsively stretch out our hand to cushion the impact. from past experiences (again, the memory argument), we know that by cushioning the fall, it will do less damage on the body. and we register the damage that is done to the body with what we call pain, another instrument of self preservation. what is interesting is that the brain seem to be doing all this at the same time; receiving impulses, processing them with what we call rational, giving out impulses all the while trying to keep the whole body to function as a unit, from the muscle contractions necessary for the eyes to function properly to the regulation of enzymes in the stomach...
all that is fine, but what happens if we daydream or sleep?
that is an interesting question to answer..
why is it we lose touch with reality, when all our senses are still 'online'?
why is there a sort of 'virtual reality' projected in our heads?
why do we need these worlds?
if we are daydreaming (like i was) it becomes more interesting...
because we seem to live in a sort of parallel world, where we are aware of the real world, yet we are somehow sucked into an imaginary world inside our heads..
i find all these very2 stimulating to think off...
wallahua'lam
it seems that wisdom not within me these past few weeks, my brain has simply frozen from the tonnes of other stuff that i was unable to think about stuff that i like most...
well, anyways, it was a bang in the head that made me thinking, so i suppose it would be fun to post it here...
it was simply today en route to my computing lab that my head made acquaintance with the door of the Ethos gym, which was, i may add, not too pleasant an experience...
but that set in motion the thought of how wonderful our brain and us being alive is...
i mean, the amount of information that is available in this world of ours, even with only a limited array of sensory inputs, is so very immense that it is mind boggling how our brains manage to keep up...
a simple example, when one gets up from bed, all the 5 sensory organs are activated, though some maybe more sluggish than other, but that's the idea...
even when we are devoid of light and perhaps sound, with the existence of the semi-circular canals in our ears, with the help of the electrical signals coming from the nerves at the ends of our skins and also some memory of the layout of our room, will aid us in finding our way to get some illumination in the room, via a flick of a switch...
this is rather an interesting point, because curiously, we tend to forget that electricity may not be available at the time when we are opening the switch. we seem to trust our memories, and trust that with the movement of the switch, electricity will flow into the light bulb or whatever bulb and through the laws of physics, we will have light. why? i have no idea...
if the idea that time is simply a statistical averaging of the universe, than it is most curious that we trust our memories, because it may not be apparent at that particular point of averaging that the same result will always be true for the same action...
coming back to the story, we then have some illumination, which will serve to guide us along the maze of solids around the room; that which we call furniture...
the we start to balance our 2 feet on the floor. and with a series of controlled falls that we call the action as walking, we commence our journey to the end of the day...
all this while, the brain is very2 careful not to let anything harm the body. that is, if we are about to fall from our bed, we will impulsively stretch out our hand to cushion the impact. from past experiences (again, the memory argument), we know that by cushioning the fall, it will do less damage on the body. and we register the damage that is done to the body with what we call pain, another instrument of self preservation. what is interesting is that the brain seem to be doing all this at the same time; receiving impulses, processing them with what we call rational, giving out impulses all the while trying to keep the whole body to function as a unit, from the muscle contractions necessary for the eyes to function properly to the regulation of enzymes in the stomach...
all that is fine, but what happens if we daydream or sleep?
that is an interesting question to answer..
why is it we lose touch with reality, when all our senses are still 'online'?
why is there a sort of 'virtual reality' projected in our heads?
why do we need these worlds?
if we are daydreaming (like i was) it becomes more interesting...
because we seem to live in a sort of parallel world, where we are aware of the real world, yet we are somehow sucked into an imaginary world inside our heads..
i find all these very2 stimulating to think off...
wallahua'lam
