I've had a lot of thoughts--I just don't always write them down.
I swear!
But, it's interesting, if you have a thought but never speak it nor write it down, did it exist? You say yes, but even Jesus said, by their fruits you (ye, whatever) shall know them. The world of the mind is a pretty slippery thing. A brief alignment of neurons firing a certain way, is that even real? It's like "data" for which wireless companies insist on payment. Right there should make you suspicious. Next time you are charged for data use overage, you should demand of your wireless company to show you the data in question. How big is the pile of data? How much does it weigh?
"Studies Have Shown" that we tend not to remember our thoughts that well. We remember sounds, and words that were spoken, much more. So, if you don't remember something, did it exist?
Pretty scary ideas for someone approaching 70, for whom old memories are supreme, and new memories just fading, slippery notions, like a cloud that looks like a bunny until you turn your head and then look back. Did I take my pills this morning?
I agree. I live in my head so much and have "slippage moments." I know they aren't new, but they worry me now that I'm older. Forex, the other day climbing the stairs to my car in the office garage, I thought it might have been the day before because I was thinking the same thought, on the same step, about where I parked. I still think about time travel in that way, that you can mark a spot. I tried to do that once, in a Sears, but it didn't work when I returned. I might not have been in the exact same spot. It only lasts a second, but you can feel that you aren't where you are, in time and space. It's pretty cool. But scary too. What if it lasts longer than a second at some point?
ReplyDeleteThoughts used to go for a penny a piece. Now I doubt they'd bring in a penny a pound. Might as well blog.
ReplyDeleteThey say that you can never enter the same Sears twice. As far as lasting more than a second, at some point, who's to say that hasn't already happened?
ReplyDeleteAsha, I'm thinking maybe the Internet would be more relevant, in general, if all data self-destructed after 48 hours. Then blogging would more resemble face-to-face conversations amongst live people.
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