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headymedy
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Reality and sensation
#18844932 - 09/15/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Everything you take for granted, everything that makes you, you; your sensory experience. All of it: every time you see something, hear something, touch something, feel something. Over time it has been built up and archived in a vast rhizomatic network spreading throughout your entire body, and made up of cells called neurons. This build up of connecting neurons is what give’s you that sense of self. Your entire concept of “I” or being an individual comes from a culmination of sensory experienced throughout your life, gained and stored. Every time you move, a completely new signal/pathway is literally wired into your neurological channels; leaving an imprint of growth in its passing. This process affects every other related experience that comes in the future, as previous experiences are saved, but every experience is a still completely new experience; meaning it isn’t really “hard wired” so to speak. It’s more of a “soft” wiring with great plasticity, i.e., it’s defined and grown by its function, but is never absolute in its structure. There is always room for growth and change—the amount of cells given to us to use are almost uncountable. No matter what perspective we set ourselves in there is always room to create a new one or wipe some dirt off the lens and expand our awareness.
The very architecture of these single neurons is a very beautiful thing that implies a “twoness” or “multiplicity”. On one end there are rhizomatic branches of dendrites that receive flows of current and on the other end are axons that rhizomaticly branch out and pass energy along. This structure doesn’t make sense as a single entity; they are designed to connect with an uncountable number of other neurons. They become one with communication, but are separated by a gap called a synapse. This lacuna gives rise to a desire for connection built within their very architecture, but they never truly connect or become one; they retain their distinctness—a container that doesn’t want to be contained. It wants to branch out and connect, to touch, to become something more than what it simply is, to reach ecstasy[ekstasis]. Why consider the basic neuronal structure at the basis of our being allowing it to function? This archetypal functionality happens on every scale we as human beings can possibly imagine!
By sensing and by experiencing we create everything that makes us and even the whole of “reality.” We are influenced and grown by the environment around us, especially by our movements and our culture or our societal/communicative environment. Outside reality comes in and flows through the body in an action potential wave of energy and is reflected back out into the outside reality to be experienced by other perceivers. Reality creates us and we create reality in a constant duel arching process linking everything into one—there is an oneness in the multiplicity of everything—as a constant flow of energy through sensory experience and the production of reality back out into the world. Every time you move, and it’s seen or every time you speak, and it’s heard is the process of reality in creation.
Consider that feeling you get when it’s cold outside and you think, “burrr I’m cold” or you’ll say to a friend “it’s cold outside.” That’s the outside/other reality coming in and creating a feeling of cold, which in turn, is reflected back out in various energetic forms. Be it saying, “I’m cold” to the people or observers around you or even certain bodily movements like shivering or rubbing your hands together, which actually are used to generate heat through friction and movement; outside reality was sensed and created various responses that in turn changed the outside reality in an ever constant flow.
When you normally think of language you probably think merely of speech. The way we all communicate with spoken symbols, given meaning by social norms and formed of sound produced by the voice box vibrating air and sending it past the tongue and out the mouth, which changes the characteristic of the noise into recognizable patterns. You might say it’s what separates us from the animals or other animate organisms or that it’s what makes us special, right? It is what has allowed us to do everything we’ve done and everything we continue to do, right? We use it as our primary medium of language, and (seemingly) for most people, it is our only medium of communication. I believe this is extremely limiting. As we only utilize audible symbols to try and make a map that we hope someone else can follow to the exact meaning we were trying to articulate. But all that is left is a map to be interpreted by the sensory system of another, who will perceive it in any number of ways. The original meaning is gone, but imagine the potential if we did not limit ourselves to this single form of communication by placing it at the top of a hierarchy. What if we could truly communicate fullness of meaning?
Perhaps a fuller understanding of what’s going can help us do just that. Communication is possible on so many more levels. Be it a touch that communicates love between mother and child or a simple recognition of bodily postures or the reality one puts out. What about these ever constant multidirectional flows of current transforming energy into all the manifestations of possible existence I just talked about. Isn’t that behind the very basis of how we communicate on every possible level? What if all of existence is nothing but language? Everything flows in order to communicate, to connect, to touch, to become one, to resonate with the other.
Imagine the change in perception as me moved from no speech, to oral language, to cave drawings, to written symbols, to manuscripts, to movable type, and to the internet on handheld devices that can access information on the vast rhizomatic network that connects almost all of humanity. I have used the word ‘rhizomatic’ a few times now and I feel that it may need some explanation and I believe it to be a wonderful word that will sum up any point I may have been trying to put in this written one way sham of a conversation. Think of the internet, a network of connections spanning the globe. It is used for the communication of information, and works by sending electrical signals or bits of energy arranged in patterns to mean certain things. Not only can we see this structural pattern of the internet in our own physical neurobiology, but also the least studied form of life on our planet, i.e, the mycelial networks of what most of us ignorantly know merely as mushrooms—and even the very cosmos and galaxies beyond.
Did all this just make sense? Do you feel as if I transmitted beyond just the boxes placed on this page? Did I communicate something? Was it the truth? If so then what did I communicate? Absolutely nothing you didn’t already know because you are constantly experiencing it happening even now as I write this and even now as you read this. We are connected in time through this frozen piece of my words on a white page. My part of the transmission will forever remain static, but yours however, yours is dynamic! What will you do with this new awareness I may or may not have successfully grown into your existence as a participating member of the human experience?
-------------------- "Remaking our language means rejecting the image of ourselves inherited from dominator culture - that of a creature of sin and hence derserving of an exclusion form paradise. Paradise is our birth rightand can be claimed by any one of us. Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and coqured. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. - Terence Mckenna
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cheeshcat
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: headymedy]
#18845041 - 09/15/13 03:28 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Telepathy = best form of communication
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: cheeshcat]
#18845048 - 09/15/13 03:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh and it makes perfect sense.
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: cheeshcat]
#18845422 - 09/15/13 05:25 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pretty intense thinking but makes sense to me.
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: circastes]
#18846147 - 09/15/13 08:17 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The interpretation of sense experiences is one of the most important things if we want to be in reality. People today do not understand sense experiences all they see them as is experiences and sensations, nothing more. But there is some kind of belief which get's made up along the way, a "my philosophy" as they say it. But most of the time that's nothing but someones interpretation and own personal opinion and is not the actual way things are. Like, for instance, I can say that food is good right, and this is true, but WHY is it good, what makes it good, does the goodness come from itself or did God make it good? But most people do not even think about food or anything else they just act like it exists because it created itself and that it always existed. They cannot comprehend or realize what the thing itself actually is. Then they start to believe that they themselves are God and that there is no God and make up reality however they want to make it up as.
Edited by SpiritualWarrior (09/15/13 08:24 PM)
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headymedy
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: cheeshcat]
#19022385 - 10/23/13 10:20 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I prefer the "mind-to-mind" idea over telepathy sounds less forceful
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thud thud
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: headymedy]
#19029981 - 10/25/13 08:18 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Let me throw you some food for thought
Have you heard of Schrodinger's cat? He was a physicist who was interested in the behaviour of quantum particles. You place a cat in box with some poisoned cat food and you have no way of interacting with the cat. For the duration that the cat remains in the box, the cat from your relative perspective can either exist as dead or alive. Schrodinger proposed that the cat existed as both, simultaneously in a realm of possibility. The instant you check under the box, the past event is determined to decide whether the cat ate the food or not. (as soon as you have interaction with the cat, or particle)
Kind of similar to that proverb; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The reason we're in a universe that can support life is because universes that cannot maintain simply don't exist outside of the realm of possibility. What I'm saying is perception may very well be essential for existence.
Here's another. You can never measure the exact position and velocity (speed + direction) of an electron simultaneously at any present point in time. The more you know about either topic, the more the other falls into a realm of possibility. But this goes on. Say you've got a pretty good idea of the velocity of the electron, yet the position is very unknown. So you make a $50 bet with your buddy that it will appear on the top half of an electron probability cloud. Because you can never know its whereabouts and where its going at the same time, there's no way of logically predicting where this little electron shows up at any given time. Yet, the outside prediction that you've just made actually affects the odds of its unpredictable position. Any observation affects its likely whereabouts. How it may affect the electrons position is completely unpredictable tho.
What I'm saying is anyone can interact with quantum particles telepathically.
Now, 80% of your vision is your imagination. Most of it is your brain for what it expects to find. If you're not paying very direct attention to something, you'd be surprised how much could slip past unnoticed. My eyes are the biggest liars I know on more than one account.
Jump on youtube and search "Water memory experiment". Watch the one on water's ability to retain structural information.
I don't want to end up spilling all of my beans. I could go on all day with little things like these. My point is the mind is more powerful than most might think. Humans are of course held down in terms of how far the average joe can stretch his mind outside his belief system. I say its all up to what you can fathom. I think I'd rather have an animal mind than allow my thoughts to be repressed by the lifestyle mankind has made for himself. Or for a kings followers
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Re: Reality and sensation [Re: thud thud]
#19030070 - 10/25/13 08:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would recommend anyone interested to sign up for this course: http://www.complexityexplorer.org/online-courses/3

Here is an awesome paper from it: The fourth dimension of life: Fractal geometry and allometric scaling of organisms.
Do a web search as I can't post it due to privacy restrictions. The paper explains how a 4th spacelike dimension arises via fractal geometry by the observation of standardised endpoints of the fractal structure (mitochondria, capillaries, etc).
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