RE: Special Relativity. Lifetime.
November 21, 2019 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2019 at 11:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The mind doesn't actually "move" all that fast, and you've employed a shift in meaning at the outset.
The brain "moves" so slowly, that you can drown out it's ability to transmit everyday signals..just by playing a musical instrument, or raking a garden. That feeling of things "speeding up" for example..that's not actually your brain changing speeds, it's just struggling to assign the usual processing power to the item in your attention. Time "slowing down"..much the same, but in reverse. It;s task list has been cleared, your focus has been allocated to that item to the exclusion of others.
If, instead, we contained ourselves to wondering whether the brain can take a moment in time, in it;s recollection, and "pause" it, or fast forward or reverse to replay it, even imagining other decisions and outcomes...then yes. That may actually be the evolutionary function of all that brainpower we have between our ears. To play, and project, and derive useful information from the recollection of past events to be accessed in future circumstances. In this way, we can circumvent the problem of it's signal speed and capacity. We don't have to think things through when they happen, we can have a plan in place, selected out of and endless array of potentialities, of waking and sleeping dreams - possibly saving that one moment in future time that saves our life.
In any case, none of the information in your brain is coming from some alternate dimension..it isn't even coming from across the room in this dimension. It's thoroughly local. You aren't going anywhere to bring anything back from.
You're already there.
The brain "moves" so slowly, that you can drown out it's ability to transmit everyday signals..just by playing a musical instrument, or raking a garden. That feeling of things "speeding up" for example..that's not actually your brain changing speeds, it's just struggling to assign the usual processing power to the item in your attention. Time "slowing down"..much the same, but in reverse. It;s task list has been cleared, your focus has been allocated to that item to the exclusion of others.
If, instead, we contained ourselves to wondering whether the brain can take a moment in time, in it;s recollection, and "pause" it, or fast forward or reverse to replay it, even imagining other decisions and outcomes...then yes. That may actually be the evolutionary function of all that brainpower we have between our ears. To play, and project, and derive useful information from the recollection of past events to be accessed in future circumstances. In this way, we can circumvent the problem of it's signal speed and capacity. We don't have to think things through when they happen, we can have a plan in place, selected out of and endless array of potentialities, of waking and sleeping dreams - possibly saving that one moment in future time that saves our life.
In any case, none of the information in your brain is coming from some alternate dimension..it isn't even coming from across the room in this dimension. It's thoroughly local. You aren't going anywhere to bring anything back from.
You're already there.
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