I have a lot of time to think to myself during the course of a day. Sometimes I maybe should be listening to other people, but clearly I’m far more interesting. Throughout my sporadic thoughts wander many, many questions. Some, I think, are pretty good. Why don’t l raise a few right now?
What occurs to me as incredibly interesting is the fact that all of our conscious, and unconscious, thought is completely driven by electrical impulses. When you really think about it, it’s pretty astonishing. All of our emotions what we hold so personal and central to the human experience are nothing more than the triggering of a multitude of tiny neurons. It is mind boggling to think about all of the wonders of our mind, but what this got me wondering about is if there is anything more to our brains than what we already know about white and grey matter and etc. Of course I don’t know everything about neuroscience and the biology of the mind but I feel that I have a pretty good understanding, at least enough to make this inquiry. Part of me truly thinks that there may be something more to our minds, maybe there’s a spiritual element to our thought, but more or less I am simply dumbfounded by the idea that all of our thoughts are, basically, electrical impulses. It honestly just seems impossible. I guess that’s one of the failures of our great minds, the incapability to grasp certain concepts, which, conveniently, is my next fascination.
Our minds are incredible structures. Humans, by far, are the most intelligent beings, as we know. But we will never be able to grasp concepts like infinity. Our earth is billions of years old. Maybe it’s a bold statement to say that nobody can completely understand just how long that is but I am positive that I can’t. We live relatively short lives. Extremely short lives compared to the infinite amount of time that has and will continue to exist. Gee what a coincidence! I was just going about to talk about time, see the next paragraph for more on this intriguing subject.
Time is yet another concept that people have created for themselves to solidify an abstract concept. What is incredible about time is that it could have really never “began.” For something to begin there has to have been something, some period before it that supersedes its existence. In the instance of time, there can’t have been anything that happened before it. It is the ultimate measure; the one thing that we know to always remain constant and yet has there or will there ever be a time without time?? Also, on the topic of abstract topics, let’s discuss space. Like all of it. And the big bang. I have never read anything on it but let’s be honest, the big bang theory just sounds like a bit of a stretch.
That is unfortunately all I can retract from my brain at the moment, but I assure you Dr. Ayers, assuming you are the only person following my blog, that there will be more things in this category for me to blog about in the future. Goodbye, mortals.
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