The Thursday Thought - Reality: an illusion?
We have 5 senses …as I hope you all know. There would be sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. All the things we can do ..live through ..just think about it for a minuet the feeling of standing next to a waterfall …the sound of the water rushing past you and crashing together at the bottom, the feel of it rushing past you at a dizzying speed, the water spraying against your face, the beauty of the light hitting the water and making light dace everywhere you seem to finally really understand the smallness of yourself next to something so grand and full of an incomparable energy.
But also everyday things need to be mentioned just the pure fun of relaxing and watching the television while eating some crisps. The feeling of just relaxing onto the couch, the taste of the crisps with a hint of spicy sauce, the funny jokes that are tolled with such sarcasm in the voice of the speaker, the gestures and brilliant colours all of this are things that we seam to have gotten so used to that we hardly even take notice of half of them anymore. Which of you would mention the sound of someone’s voice when telling someone about a movie?
We hardly take notice of all the things that happen and go on around us. The things that we do notice though ...how do we know that they are really there? By our 5 Senses I guess but how precise are they? how much do they tell us "the truth"? Take the telly for example when watching it ..what do you see? A bunch of different pictures flickering? no? well that's what a dog would see just a bunch of flickering and random pics not the flowing "normal" movements you see. That's because your brain processes a lot fewer pics per second then that of a dog. Dogs evolved from wolves and so the skills needed for hunting are still present (for example the ability to see a fast moving object) but lets go on to a few different examples (just too prove my point).
Have you ever seen a bright violate colour on the edges of flowers even if the flowers 'real' colour is red (or some other colour where one shouldn't see the colour violate) or in a green field? A violate that seams to glow. No? Well bees and birds do, they see ultra violate. Our brain however has decided that we dont need to se ultra violate and so we dont, our brain has decided that we dont need to "hear" eccolations and so we dont, our brain has decided that we dont need to see things that move quickly and so we dont.... so we dont see the 'reality' but much more what ever our brain wants us to see.
I quite possibly believe too much that things are connected but ... how much else is only a product of something our brain (or we, ourselves) want to see? would we even be able to see 'reality' if I wanted to?. ...would it be possible to really want to see reality and not have a little hope for how it should really look?
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There it's finally out and early one I know but I'd like o get some feedback as soon as possible and I can't see how I could get feedback if you my dear reader don’t have the possibility to read it.
6:43 am
WARNING: The following may be complete ramble!
Another fascinating post there, I know what you're getting at but the fact there are differences between how the average human brain and that of another animal functions is difficult to compare. Despite their advanced vision, dogs (those of the domestic kind) are on the whole dense and disobedient creatures! Cute, but not the brightest animal. Thus their senses are not on the whole as advanced from a human. I doubt the human brain decides what not to be able to do like some selective ability to what it needs to sense or not. The evolution of man arguably has given way to this.
Anyway, my point was that these areas (such as the inability to pcik up ultrasound, or the vision to see UV light) are the exception to an otherwise wonderful gift of nature. Plus a waterfall is a pretty spectacular thing. We see the rainbow spectrum through the sprays of water in the sunlight. What other better sight is there?
Jonah
(with too much time on his hands)
2:37 pm
Good stuff. I suppose another point would be to add, whhat is reality? Does all this actually exist? Is it all a figmen of our imagination? Or better, the figment of someone, or something else's imagination, making us act, making us sense, making us feel? Or is it just a dream?
Still, back to the article, real or otherwise. It's good stuff, I'll award that. But, do we need to se the ultra-violet? What's wrong with seeing all that we can and nothign more. I mean, the world is fascinating as it is, without giving us even more things to see and deal with. We've adapted to see what we can, feel what we can and hear what we can, and we are the most dominant species on the planet. Well, mammal at any rate. We've yet to make n insect extinct, but the U.S. is trying, apparently. hehe.
Still, I'll leave it there, I think.
Paul
9:22 pm
I'd just like to point out, that there are infact Thirteen Senses!!!(hehe, get it?:P)
7:28 pm
Although Thirteen Senses are an ace group, I don't think that they were the focal point of this last discussion! However, it's nice to see a response all the same, even if it is not on the subject of the post!
Jonah
3:11 pm
Going to mix this site up with my comments, too...
Well, Addy, as you know: "Realität - eine durch Drogenmangel erzeugte Illusion"
I'll try to translate, just wait a minute... "Reality - An ilusion caused by the shortage of drugs" Please don't take this serious, it's just some fancy talking...
3:54 pm
O? lol it's only "fancy"? nah go on give in you men it (jacob)!!! ,p hehehe you shouldn't let him jump out of you when you're on a pubic site!! ,p hehehe
6:20 am
i like to think that i have lived almost 80 yrs and have faced reality daily. iwant to think i have seen every color, felt every emotion, and that this old brain has allowed me to explore all the posibilies with which it was endowed.
2:09 pm
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