Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 3, 2020 11:01:01 GMT -5
Now isn't just now. I sit, watching Minority Report, which I've seen many times. I sit in a house 51 years old. I lived here my senior year HS. It doesn't look 51 years old. So now extends back those 51 years, memory. We have to sell the house, my parents have died. My youngest daughter is asleep at the end of the hall, her room. I have a 2 acre lot 4 miles away. That was happenstance. Over a hundred years ago a husband died, the wife thought she inherited everything, but there was no will. About 70 years later somebody figured out they should have inherited some property, the wife should have gotten only a child's portion of the land and each child got a portion. When that correction filtered down to my grandpa, he got six acres. But he had died, so my Dad and his two sisters ended up with 2 acres each. And then I ended up with two acres. It's really a gold mine. Over ten years ago my dad drew me some plans for a house, there. Those, altered somewhat, a house will be built, my last house. So sitting here, planning, extends back over a hundred years and now also into the future maybe a year. But there is also a net of interweaving links between the echo of outer and inner, which cannot be traced, to now, this present matrix, they are too complicated to trace. All these links arose from an outer world but are simultaneously mapped in hundreds of thousands of neural links in the brain that sits on this couch, each an empty synapse waiting to fire, "What fires together wires together". Warp and woof are inner and outer, one tapestry. My sister lives 45 minutes away. My immediate future? I have a list of six problems that have to be solved next week, just in relation to the facts above. I forgot today, Friday, is essentially a holiday, tomorrow is the 4th of July, that's why the problems wait, procrastination. But I will get it done, it has to be done.
I figured out 50 years ago that all that exists in my brain, along with the thoughts and feelings. It's quite peculiar. I'm sure a big part of it was Introduction to Philosophy, Mr. Corky, totally cool, Freshman year. That arose out of 11th grade English, a visiting teacher to the class replied to a remark I made, "That sounds like something an Existentialist would say". He suggested reading The Stranger by Camus, but I didn't read it, to my poverty, and laziness. So the light I see, is inside my very dark brain. Sensory neurons have a path in-to the brain, but no path back to the world. So, the brain forms it all, what you see, hear, taste, touch and smell, exists in your head. Bertrand Russell knew it, wrote very eloquently on it. Emily D!ckinson knew it too, over 150 years ago, without a science of perception, that's pretty awesome. Said it better and in less words than Russell.
The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -
The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -
The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound -
1862
I figured out 50 years ago that all that exists in my brain, along with the thoughts and feelings. It's quite peculiar. I'm sure a big part of it was Introduction to Philosophy, Mr. Corky, totally cool, Freshman year. That arose out of 11th grade English, a visiting teacher to the class replied to a remark I made, "That sounds like something an Existentialist would say". He suggested reading The Stranger by Camus, but I didn't read it, to my poverty, and laziness. So the light I see, is inside my very dark brain. Sensory neurons have a path in-to the brain, but no path back to the world. So, the brain forms it all, what you see, hear, taste, touch and smell, exists in your head. Bertrand Russell knew it, wrote very eloquently on it. Emily D!ckinson knew it too, over 150 years ago, without a science of perception, that's pretty awesome. Said it better and in less words than Russell.
The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -
The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -
The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound -
1862