Hello guys, today I am going to deal with multiple facets of remembering stuff. It involves imagining too as both tasks are like brothers in action. Then we step into hallucinations and finally well, there is a surprise.
Remembering:
Right off the bat, I am gonna start with saying that, each time humans remember a memory, they are essentially re-living it for a fraction of time. In general, a memory is just a path in the life which you light up each time you travel through it. The day you stop going there, you loose everything that path could lead you to. My question is why do we remember things? If anything serials like blindspot have told me, it's that losing memory is scary. They connect it to having identity. Then again, having a memory of death of an uncle, a necessary one? Evolution has its way here but it doesn't make sense why I remember specifics of that time and not the specifics of a language I code in. This is just confusing.
Turns out, it's the impact of the memory that binds in. The experience was so horrifying that all my neural network engaged me to remember as detailed a memory as I could. Some part of me definitely knew that this was my destiny. I mean, we all have to die someday for sure but it could have been the very next day. Heck, it could be the very next moment. It is full of gore and disturbing imagery to think of the ways a person could die. It's more terrifying to know that, that person, could be the person you love the most. It could be your family, your friends, that weird uncle you hate with all your guts or even that annoying pestilence of a neighbor, when someone near you dies... they never come back. That part of you is lost. It's just like old skin. Even if that old skin tore off, it left behind a scar and no new time period of natural skin regeneration can ever remove that scar. You have lost a member and here's a memory. Each time you remember that person, you are living with them again. Essentially, in you, you are bringing them back from the dead. In my opinion, a person is dead when the person is forgotten by the last remembering person on the planet.
Imagination:
The memories in our brain create a platform to a very diverse of conclusions. The back-end is still mysterious (not in literal sense) but we have a fair idea of dreams. Remember that time you worried about tomorrow's exam. You might have probably imagined if this question would come. It's crazy. Imagination is essentially one thing that separates us from computers now. It tells us that we have an internal model of reality. What makes us imagine?
The answer is still not found but I have a theory. It's a copy-paste of individual items taken from different scenarios and putting them in a permutation and observe. Now, we are touching the realm of curiosity. A survey conducted by a team of scientists in early 2000 on a few hundred teens revealed the motive of imagination, or that's what they thought so. They asked them to *awkward alert* masturbate thinking of their crushes. The MRI scans lit up with more nerves engaging in experimental borders of copulation. That test was archived until ten years later, they were asked to do the same (okay, turns out not all of them came back for the experiment but a 62% is roughly acceptable). This time the preferences changed. Even though they were gifted with an open choice of whomever they wanted, most of them chose their spouses and went very delicate. Back in the day, it was very controversial to attempt such statistical tests considering the residue religious groups still condoning the practices but I am more interested in the results. It tells us that whatever we imagine is just what we are capable of perceiving, but in a more bizarre way. The fantasies we have may be a way to explore our options in a non-conventional way and they also define the lateral thinking. The more realistic it gets, the more purposeful our lives become. The aforementioned experiment said the same too. It told that no matter how many options you put forth, when it comes to reality, we express the more intimate and logical side of ourselves because we care. Imagination is the border between the true self and the person we think we could be. Being satisfied doesn't work, granted but it is also a reminder of what is happening, who we are and frankly, our past self. And yes, imagination can lead to both ups and downs. You always have a choice.
Hallucinations:
What happens when you forget the border between a reality and a dream? You are likely hallucinating. It doesn't mean that you are seeing imaginary people or situations, necessarily. You might be living a casual life and yet remembering the facts wrong. If a lie has been told by a majority of people in your surroundings, you accept it to be true de-facto. Some people take it to extreme lengths and mass hysteria. It's very controversial to argue on what is mass opinion and what is mass hysteria. Democracy actually thrives on this debate as the events of facts and propaganda are blurred to the point that de-jure laws seem unfit. Then again, democracy is like the sick puppy. You just medicate and wait until it becomes healthy again.
Sometimes you need to listen to what others are saying and change and other times you don't. That is adapting to the environment. It's tough to choose in a million ways but we could try our best. Sometimes we need to question our practices and their applicability. Imagination is the way to use this and try. Other options may be to see what others are doing and learn or refer to the past or check the statistics of likelihood. When this process has been skipped to create a false universe of our own and remembering things wrong way, it can affect our internal model of reality and finally can bomb our identity.
Surprise:
I told we were gonna talk about a surprise and yes we are talking about 'surprise'. It is commonly an unexpected event in our favor, mostly. It so happens sometimes that you are caught by surprise and you like it. Although there is a theory that everything is planned, the sheer factor that you don't know it is still valid to consider it a surprise. Now, you may ask why I am ranting about random things. This is the part where it all binds. You see, the element of surprise actually defeats our routine triggering an exception that lasts for a time that can tilt the outcome of an event by some small error margin but enough to propagate a butterfly effect. The amount of nerves involved is in logarithmic proportionality with the impact of such event. Then you remember that event in some circumstance generated by the mildest moment of an event triggered by this surprise. You are likely to imagine a scenario when the surprise didn't happen, like at all and flow with the modified timeline in a train of thought. If the surprise didn't turn out good, you may even hallucinate accordingly. This whole process repeats till it becomes knowledge. Now, time for conclusion.
Conclusion:
You might have asked why we need to do this all in our life. I give you the answer that I think is right. It's not for you. Your knowledge is not for you. It's for another person. It's to protect others from not repeating our mistakes and doing again what worked. It is to experiment on what was said to prove or disprove it in time. So next time you are asked to remember something or hear a story, please don't avoid it and try to remember as is. This way you are not corrupting the knowledge. You might not be able to do anything with it but in passing on the knowledge, you become a teacher. Don't ridicule your friend for being nothing but a bookworm or the one who just remembers things not knowing or appreciating what they mean. In fact, that person is being more productive in passing down information than you could ever achieve. Then again, it's only because personal evidence/anecdote is more reliable than a book. Also plural of anecdote is not data. At least the knowledge is not being corrupted or corrected. Say thank you to that friend of yours next time you meet for me.
Horopter
Remembering:
Right off the bat, I am gonna start with saying that, each time humans remember a memory, they are essentially re-living it for a fraction of time. In general, a memory is just a path in the life which you light up each time you travel through it. The day you stop going there, you loose everything that path could lead you to. My question is why do we remember things? If anything serials like blindspot have told me, it's that losing memory is scary. They connect it to having identity. Then again, having a memory of death of an uncle, a necessary one? Evolution has its way here but it doesn't make sense why I remember specifics of that time and not the specifics of a language I code in. This is just confusing.
Turns out, it's the impact of the memory that binds in. The experience was so horrifying that all my neural network engaged me to remember as detailed a memory as I could. Some part of me definitely knew that this was my destiny. I mean, we all have to die someday for sure but it could have been the very next day. Heck, it could be the very next moment. It is full of gore and disturbing imagery to think of the ways a person could die. It's more terrifying to know that, that person, could be the person you love the most. It could be your family, your friends, that weird uncle you hate with all your guts or even that annoying pestilence of a neighbor, when someone near you dies... they never come back. That part of you is lost. It's just like old skin. Even if that old skin tore off, it left behind a scar and no new time period of natural skin regeneration can ever remove that scar. You have lost a member and here's a memory. Each time you remember that person, you are living with them again. Essentially, in you, you are bringing them back from the dead. In my opinion, a person is dead when the person is forgotten by the last remembering person on the planet.
Imagination:
The memories in our brain create a platform to a very diverse of conclusions. The back-end is still mysterious (not in literal sense) but we have a fair idea of dreams. Remember that time you worried about tomorrow's exam. You might have probably imagined if this question would come. It's crazy. Imagination is essentially one thing that separates us from computers now. It tells us that we have an internal model of reality. What makes us imagine?
The answer is still not found but I have a theory. It's a copy-paste of individual items taken from different scenarios and putting them in a permutation and observe. Now, we are touching the realm of curiosity. A survey conducted by a team of scientists in early 2000 on a few hundred teens revealed the motive of imagination, or that's what they thought so. They asked them to *awkward alert* masturbate thinking of their crushes. The MRI scans lit up with more nerves engaging in experimental borders of copulation. That test was archived until ten years later, they were asked to do the same (okay, turns out not all of them came back for the experiment but a 62% is roughly acceptable). This time the preferences changed. Even though they were gifted with an open choice of whomever they wanted, most of them chose their spouses and went very delicate. Back in the day, it was very controversial to attempt such statistical tests considering the residue religious groups still condoning the practices but I am more interested in the results. It tells us that whatever we imagine is just what we are capable of perceiving, but in a more bizarre way. The fantasies we have may be a way to explore our options in a non-conventional way and they also define the lateral thinking. The more realistic it gets, the more purposeful our lives become. The aforementioned experiment said the same too. It told that no matter how many options you put forth, when it comes to reality, we express the more intimate and logical side of ourselves because we care. Imagination is the border between the true self and the person we think we could be. Being satisfied doesn't work, granted but it is also a reminder of what is happening, who we are and frankly, our past self. And yes, imagination can lead to both ups and downs. You always have a choice.
Hallucinations:
What happens when you forget the border between a reality and a dream? You are likely hallucinating. It doesn't mean that you are seeing imaginary people or situations, necessarily. You might be living a casual life and yet remembering the facts wrong. If a lie has been told by a majority of people in your surroundings, you accept it to be true de-facto. Some people take it to extreme lengths and mass hysteria. It's very controversial to argue on what is mass opinion and what is mass hysteria. Democracy actually thrives on this debate as the events of facts and propaganda are blurred to the point that de-jure laws seem unfit. Then again, democracy is like the sick puppy. You just medicate and wait until it becomes healthy again.
Sometimes you need to listen to what others are saying and change and other times you don't. That is adapting to the environment. It's tough to choose in a million ways but we could try our best. Sometimes we need to question our practices and their applicability. Imagination is the way to use this and try. Other options may be to see what others are doing and learn or refer to the past or check the statistics of likelihood. When this process has been skipped to create a false universe of our own and remembering things wrong way, it can affect our internal model of reality and finally can bomb our identity.
Surprise:
I told we were gonna talk about a surprise and yes we are talking about 'surprise'. It is commonly an unexpected event in our favor, mostly. It so happens sometimes that you are caught by surprise and you like it. Although there is a theory that everything is planned, the sheer factor that you don't know it is still valid to consider it a surprise. Now, you may ask why I am ranting about random things. This is the part where it all binds. You see, the element of surprise actually defeats our routine triggering an exception that lasts for a time that can tilt the outcome of an event by some small error margin but enough to propagate a butterfly effect. The amount of nerves involved is in logarithmic proportionality with the impact of such event. Then you remember that event in some circumstance generated by the mildest moment of an event triggered by this surprise. You are likely to imagine a scenario when the surprise didn't happen, like at all and flow with the modified timeline in a train of thought. If the surprise didn't turn out good, you may even hallucinate accordingly. This whole process repeats till it becomes knowledge. Now, time for conclusion.
Conclusion:
You might have asked why we need to do this all in our life. I give you the answer that I think is right. It's not for you. Your knowledge is not for you. It's for another person. It's to protect others from not repeating our mistakes and doing again what worked. It is to experiment on what was said to prove or disprove it in time. So next time you are asked to remember something or hear a story, please don't avoid it and try to remember as is. This way you are not corrupting the knowledge. You might not be able to do anything with it but in passing on the knowledge, you become a teacher. Don't ridicule your friend for being nothing but a bookworm or the one who just remembers things not knowing or appreciating what they mean. In fact, that person is being more productive in passing down information than you could ever achieve. Then again, it's only because personal evidence/anecdote is more reliable than a book. Also plural of anecdote is not data. At least the knowledge is not being corrupted or corrected. Say thank you to that friend of yours next time you meet for me.
Horopter
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