Eclectic Wanderings

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Human Radio Station

We perceive and sense in very small ranges the wholeness of the universe.  There is a narrow range of light, certain frequencies of sound vibrations that happen to be nearby, and only certain ranges of all the senses.  We are tolerant of a narrow band of conditions to be alive.  A certain temperature range (I recently saw there are bacteria that can live at near boiling temperature, and others than can be frozen and live).  The body temperature has to very close to 98.6 or we humans die.  Gravity needs to be just right, and water and air abundant.  We humans are fragile creatures, and our perceptions are very narrow.
Its amazing that 1) we have survived as long as we have, and 2) that we have such limits on our existence and we have still found out as much about the physical universe as we have.  But honest scientists we tell you there is much more that we don’t know than what we have discovered.  Our perceptions are indirect at best.  For example, light comes from photons (scientists submit that light is both a wave phenomena and a particle, simultaneously in some unknown, unintuitive way), it bounces off or reflects from surfaces, comes to our eye as an upside down image, translates into nerve impulses which the brain, along with about a dozen various types of visual signals, processes and produces a 3D holographic images for us of ‘the world’.  Remember the alien in the corpse in Men in Black, who was sitting in a human’s head pulling levers and operating the body?  Well, the actual scene isn’t far off.  Our conscious perception of reality isn’t much different.
In addition to all the physical sensory filters we automatically apply, studies show that people’s perception of reality it strongly influenced by beliefs, emotions, expectations, etc.
But where it gets even weirder is when you consider that this whole 3D holographic image we create from our small sampling of the energies of the universe, will be very much, or perhaps totally different, if say we were a cockroach.  After going through all the sensory filtering devices, how does reality look to it.  How does a virus view the world at a microscopic level.  Let alone our familiar cat sitting on the mantelpiece
So in the end, one’s perception of the universe and what one calls reality may be like tuning to a station on a radio dial.  Humans have their frequency, but there is the whole rest of the dial.  And that’s not counting AM or ham radio.

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