• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    What you’re seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.

    /Obviously I’m not serious…

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        7 hours ago

        I mean, I guess that’s true in a peculirar sort of way in which nothing really exists outside of our perception of it.

        What I mean by that is that whatever we see, hear, taste, etc… is merely neurons firing in our brain, processing a signal that it receives. So if we’re looking at a tree for example; that tree is just light/energy waves vibrating on a specific frequency. It’s only when it hits our optic nerve and travels to our brain that it’s translating into something that we call a “tree”.

        So when the eyes are closed, the random interference pattern could indeed be interpreted as you say. Goog catch. Kind of makes you wonder.

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          2 hours ago

          Yeah there’s a term for it in Hinduism, Maya.

          I’ve also spent a lot of time and study with Buddhism. Explored a lot of mind altering drugs.

          Perception is a map of the territory influenced by karma (evolution and personal experience) In constant feedback with the territory, of course.

          But the map edits itself out. Because when a tiger appears on the map we need to run, not debate rather or not there’s really a tiger.