Yeah I know, I like to make life complicated...
Image from www.simpsonstrivia.comOnce upon a time, a long long time ago, I saw a BBC documentary on the human brain (not quite how that sentence usually goes, is it?) According to this documentary, all of us live our lives half a second in the past.
It is the result of a chain reaction. We face a stimulus of some sort. The message is relayed to the brain. The brain decides what to do and the body carries out the decision. Our conscious realization of that action happens only half a second afterwards. As a result, everything that we see and sense around is has actually happened half a second earlier. We see a car zoom past us on the road but in reality, the zooming past happened half a second earlier. What is this half a second? A glitch in the system? Or rather, the time the brain requires to process and deal with the massive amounts of data it receives every micro-second.
This half second hardly has any appreciable effect on our lives. If it did, I'm sure we would have noticed by now and the BBC wouldn't have to reveal it in a documentary. However, I found the implications of such a thing to be astounding. Does this mean that we have never and never will live in the actual present? No wonder we humans cling to the past so much. It's how we've been programmed. Our brains function in the present but we live in the past. So, the harsh reality in this sutuation is that the present is only an illusion because we never quite get to experience it, do we?
Another thing that just wouldn't stop bothering me is that technically, all human beings loose half a second of their lives. The vicious cycle of continously delayed perception of the present starts right from the time we are born. So, at the exact moment of death, we are still busy processing the previous half second. Hence, when the time comes to actually be in that moment of death, well, it's too late. Brain processes cannot take place because we died half a second earlier! You know what this means? No human being can ever experience exactly what it is to die. Quite a startling revelation isn't it?
Well, new researches crop up all the time and it seems as though most of them just enjoy contradicting one another. I have no idea what the next one will say but hey, does it really matter? What's one half second compared to the length of a lifetime? Answer that, darlings.
Labels: science
posted by A.S. at 4:27 PM
3 Comments:
This is sai's stoner schizophrenic friend Isaac answering-
since it is pretty hard to type it may take time .
First of all , that was your useful post in decades .
And second , about the post ,
You have obviously made a very (whats the word) unusual , maybe important ,kind of observation .
But , the 5 senses have different response times to the brain .
And our brain cannot distuingish 1/16th of a second from another .
Thats means maybe we can see before we hear (echo duh!) ,or feel before seeing or smell .... or maybe its different for everyone .
The seer loves painting.
The hearer loves music .
The smellers love cooking.
The feelers like sex.(Applaud for that you perverted beings ;])
So thats my view .
And that not meeting death part .
Death as a noun amuses me.
Death as a verb kills me.
(That may have seemed off-topic but i have to publicize for my new book of quotations by one man - Thats me )
And yeah -
I am pretty glad i am not going to meet that old fucker Death ( noun).
While he verb(Deaths) me .
And what about people who die and come back to life ,
People coming out from coma ,
And as far i know what about dreams .
I know everyone sees them , feel them , hear them at sleep everyday.
How can you sense a dream if its not really happening .
So Rajput Princess of the Middle East , all i can say is that --
(Also in my book of quotations named - PTGSPOFP ...yes thats just the name imagine whats inside ha ha!(evil laugh , but not too over the top))
"" The Mind is a Bigger Fucker than Death and Life ."" - SAI KRISHNA VENNAMANENI
PTGSPOFP - Punk trying to get Sadistic Pleasure Out of Fooling People .(if you've been still wondering )
I have a self-blog by the way people who are reading .
Its better than this one ,
It will not encourage suicidal tendencies -
www.(sorry forgot the name).(some other time).com
First of all, if your comments are going to be that damn long, start your own blog and leave mine alone :P
And second, I do not encourage suicidal tendencies! I resent that! I do quite the opposite actually. I'm a regular little ray of sunshine honey. Haven't you heard?
And third, you really shouldn't publish that book of quotes. It sounds so lame, I wouldn't even clean a pigsty with it.
X
I love honey . Its so sweet.
And , if thats the case , keep up the good work .
"Kill the suiciders" - SAI.
I am reading some of your blogs .
They are not that sad . They are happy instead . So i am proud to allow you into our secret cult .
We've been there since the age of the cave man .
Our only aim is to -
"Kill the suiciders " - SAI
Our cult was started by these artists who used to go around painting and drawing in caves challenging people that no one could draw better than them . Thats how art started before that people didn't die they just killed themselves out of boredom (ennui) .
But then art came then music and everything .
Our cult includes of great names like - Charlee Chaplin , Jim Carrey ,Jack Black , Shakespeare's servant Julio , And Neil Armstrong's Uncle .
So thats that . signing off .
www.this-boulevard-called-life.blogspot.com
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