A sobering thought
One of the strange things about the mind is it's ability to make do with approximations.
What we see in detail is not the detail of what we see. The brain through the eye sees what it sees and instead of responding to the actual, reverts to memory to fit what it sees with a memory of what it had seen before having pigeonholed the event as such and such. The fact that the new image was marginally different is brushed over and we are conveniently left with the convenience of something we know and can rationalise.
This assembling and dissembling of images means that our reality is false and based on approximations. This ability to render onto the brain and the mind sufficient information for the memory to fill in the gaps was the basis of cinematography and the cartoon industry where a few approximations of movement in the frame meant that when the frame and the subsequent frame were viewed the mind did the work of assuming the flow of movement from its memory of how in real life such a scene would look.
In the effort to compress information to send complicated pictures down a telephone line, the mathematical analysis of a picture reveals that a massive amount of information can be left out of the transmission, reassembled at the other end and by a series of mathematical assumptions which the brain and the mind, through the memory accepts and conceptualises as information.
The basis of all life can be processed into maths. The guiding hand we have in our quest to understand is mathematics. The core of what we are and who we are can be determined by a set of mathematical equations which simply simplify what we assume to be mystical.
It's a sobering thought
What we see in detail is not the detail of what we see. The brain through the eye sees what it sees and instead of responding to the actual, reverts to memory to fit what it sees with a memory of what it had seen before having pigeonholed the event as such and such. The fact that the new image was marginally different is brushed over and we are conveniently left with the convenience of something we know and can rationalise.
This assembling and dissembling of images means that our reality is false and based on approximations. This ability to render onto the brain and the mind sufficient information for the memory to fill in the gaps was the basis of cinematography and the cartoon industry where a few approximations of movement in the frame meant that when the frame and the subsequent frame were viewed the mind did the work of assuming the flow of movement from its memory of how in real life such a scene would look.
In the effort to compress information to send complicated pictures down a telephone line, the mathematical analysis of a picture reveals that a massive amount of information can be left out of the transmission, reassembled at the other end and by a series of mathematical assumptions which the brain and the mind, through the memory accepts and conceptualises as information.
The basis of all life can be processed into maths. The guiding hand we have in our quest to understand is mathematics. The core of what we are and who we are can be determined by a set of mathematical equations which simply simplify what we assume to be mystical.
It's a sobering thought
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