Post by karen on Nov 4, 2009 18:45:07 GMT -5
Whenever I contemplate my sense of motion I know I come to an end point - or one of the frontiers of my illusion.
If I look at my cat cross my room, what is that? It's so bizarre. I realize that what I see as motion is not "motion" as I have understood it to be, but rather it is one gigantic black hole of a mystery.
My cat was at the North end of my room. He walked over to the other side of the room and out the door. While I recognize no change in the optical nature of this display, it seems more like a tracer than him being at any one moment while in motion. Trying to pick an instantaneous moment is slippery business as there is no such thing (set theory points to this).
It seems like motion was a sense developed to either find food or avoid being food. That probably introduces the illusion of time; with seeing motion if you go down small enough, we're still talking a finite quantity of proteins are being struck at any one time by photons in single line fashion. The same would be true of all the other senses in their own way.
Can anyone relate to this?
If I look at my cat cross my room, what is that? It's so bizarre. I realize that what I see as motion is not "motion" as I have understood it to be, but rather it is one gigantic black hole of a mystery.
My cat was at the North end of my room. He walked over to the other side of the room and out the door. While I recognize no change in the optical nature of this display, it seems more like a tracer than him being at any one moment while in motion. Trying to pick an instantaneous moment is slippery business as there is no such thing (set theory points to this).
It seems like motion was a sense developed to either find food or avoid being food. That probably introduces the illusion of time; with seeing motion if you go down small enough, we're still talking a finite quantity of proteins are being struck at any one time by photons in single line fashion. The same would be true of all the other senses in their own way.
Can anyone relate to this?
Nice.