Just been having a philosophical
debate with some friends, I didn’t bore too many of them I am happy to
say. One thing we discussed was the idea
of particles and waves and it occurred to me that it is the brain that decides
the outcome. I suppose that is what they
mean when they say the observer; they are meaning the brain of the
observer. The senses, the interpretation
of those senses making it into something that the brain can recognise and
evaluate.
Maybe all things are constructed
of waves, and basically particles are only our interpretation of those waves,
perhaps not, perhaps that is too simple a concept but it might be true of
light. Energy has to seem tangible to
our sensory perception in our reality, our perspective. And it is easiest to seem tangible as a
particle instead of a wave as we perceive it.
Why would our brain using all our
sensory powers turn something from one thing, a wave, into another, a
particle? Maybe if I was a scholar I
would know this, but I'm not so I don’t so perhaps I am ignorant of the answer. Oh I have just had a quick Google and others
have discussed it for years in fact, well it is pretty obvious when I think
further. Yet still it is quite an
amazing thing the brain is doing and it makes you wonder what else it is
changing for our benefit, to make our reality real.
I suppose the next question might
be can we somehow switch it off or change it?
Can we turn the brain into a device that can see the unseen, know the
unknowable, touch the untouchable and so on and so forth? Some of us already can in a way, people with unusual
brain damage or born with DNA defects, they use their senses differently to
everyone else. Yet we still cannot
control what our sensory input is and widen or lessen the field of view.
Perhaps one day we will.
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