A morning full of promises.
A great night. Awake periodically, but good sleep in between times. Felt rested when I got up. Through the shower, cleaned up the kitchen, made coffee and oatmeal fro breakfast then got to meditation and now I'm warming up.
Meditation wasn't great but I had wonderful thoughts during it. I started by trying to visualize designs for the brain illustrations and logos I want to work on. I tried to visualize the brain in different views, from the side, angled on and away, from above - following and leading. A couple of those resonated because of our relationship with the brain.
Then I thought about what an amazing organ it is in terms of its real limitations and how it works within those limitations. For instance, it's connections are actually pretty slow, in the 100 m/s range but the distances are short and the connections are fluid and almost limitless. It's amazing that it leaves us the illusion that we live in real time
and in the real world. In fact, there is a lag in almost everything that's hidden from us and we see and experience only a fraction of the real world. Only a very small amount of what we see is in focus and our brain fills in blind spots for us so that we are not aware they even exist.
Even then, what we are aware that we see we take as what's really there, when in fact, we're looking at a rapidly changing interpretation of reflections of light and movement at speed and direction, and maybe a couple other discernible perceptions that I don't know about right now.
Our brains make assumptions based just on past experiences and not all of those in the real world. Even 500 years ago when we watched nature for 20 years and felt that we understood everything we saw; horses running, wagon rolling down hills, birds in flight, we still dreamed about more versions of movement that didn't make sense in the real world. Artists drew pictures that demonstrated scenes that we could never see in our "real" world and those images captured our imaginations.
Almost as soon as motion pictures came into being, people saw how we could use them to spoof reality and show almost anything we could imagine. Today, movies literally beggar the imagination as build unreality upon itself until we could see more than we could perceive on a regular basis for a few dollars.
At any rate, I had an idea for a brain scene in which the brain acts as a movie projector showing a perceived scene on a screen while the actual scene is shown behind the screen and it's completely different. It is the Beer Goggle concept without the beer, 24/7. That's actually the way it really is.
I remember stressing this concept to the people at the pain and ultrasound conference I spoke at in Las Vegas. Remember, what you see on the screen is only the interpretation of the machine based on the reflections received from the probe. Conditions of the probe make all the difference.
I also thought about trying to understand the power of people, the individual, and the group. That there's no question about how much power can be demonstrated by people to hurt others. The power of people to make a negative and permanent impact on the lives of others. But I wondered why it seemed so much harder to make a positive and lasting change on others. The people who need it. Why does that seem so hard? I was thinking it doesn't have to involve hundreds of dollars per month, maybe only 5 or 10 dollars per month, and maybe the targets could change monthly as well
Meditation wasn't great but I had wonderful thoughts during it. I started by trying to visualize designs for the brain illustrations and logos I want to work on. I tried to visualize the brain in different views, from the side, angled on and away, from above - following and leading. A couple of those resonated because of our relationship with the brain.Then I thought about what an amazing organ it is in terms of its real limitations and how it works within those limitations. For instance, it's connections are actually pretty slow, in the 100 m/s range but the distances are short and the connections are fluid and almost limitless. It's amazing that it leaves us the illusion that we live in real time
and in the real world. In fact, there is a lag in almost everything that's hidden from us and we see and experience only a fraction of the real world. Only a very small amount of what we see is in focus and our brain fills in blind spots for us so that we are not aware they even exist.
Even then, what we are aware that we see we take as what's really there, when in fact, we're looking at a rapidly changing interpretation of reflections of light and movement at speed and direction, and maybe a couple other discernible perceptions that I don't know about right now.
Our brains make assumptions based just on past experiences and not all of those in the real world. Even 500 years ago when we watched nature for 20 years and felt that we understood everything we saw; horses running, wagon rolling down hills, birds in flight, we still dreamed about more versions of movement that didn't make sense in the real world. Artists drew pictures that demonstrated scenes that we could never see in our "real" world and those images captured our imaginations.
Almost as soon as motion pictures came into being, people saw how we could use them to spoof reality and show almost anything we could imagine. Today, movies literally beggar the imagination as build unreality upon itself until we could see more than we could perceive on a regular basis for a few dollars.
At any rate, I had an idea for a brain scene in which the brain acts as a movie projector showing a perceived scene on a screen while the actual scene is shown behind the screen and it's completely different. It is the Beer Goggle concept without the beer, 24/7. That's actually the way it really is.
I remember stressing this concept to the people at the pain and ultrasound conference I spoke at in Las Vegas. Remember, what you see on the screen is only the interpretation of the machine based on the reflections received from the probe. Conditions of the probe make all the difference.
I also thought about trying to understand the power of people, the individual, and the group. That there's no question about how much power can be demonstrated by people to hurt others. The power of people to make a negative and permanent impact on the lives of others. But I wondered why it seemed so much harder to make a positive and lasting change on others. The people who need it. Why does that seem so hard? I was thinking it doesn't have to involve hundreds of dollars per month, maybe only 5 or 10 dollars per month, and maybe the targets could change monthly as well
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