Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Got into the 2nd Year of the HND Graphics at the Glasgow Met, seen the Americanised George Square, got the East Coast train down to London, went and seen the Descendents play a blinder at the Brixton Academy then back up to Falkirk to tell my boss “I Quit”.
ALL within 36 hours, we shall achieve ALL!
Ricky Gervais summing up the current state of the world.
A late night thought…
Our concept of “reality” exists solely in our brain.
If I cut my finger, the pain exists in my brain, but my brain creates a reality where I believe the pain is in my finger. We go about our day creating a world which exists solely in our minds which is not based on reality, but an extremely limited experience based on data which, for the most part, is ignored.
We do not see all the colours, hear all the sounds, or experience anything beyond our immediate environment. And what we do get, we filter.
We feel that matter is solid, even though we know it is mostly empty — and then that feeling of solidness is something happening in our brains, NOT in our hands. We do this with every sense. Even our eyes do not fully receive information (where the optic nerve attaches), so our brain just guesses what should go there. It filters out more than it accepts.
We talk about sunrise and sunset, even though we know the earth is not the centre of our solar system — and nobody ever thinks to correct it. Why have we not officially renamed “sunrise” to reflect the real dynamic, which is earth-turning-morning? We readily accept and live with ideas and experiences we know are false, and as a collective, we perpetuate this shared and realised ignorance.
And knowing all this, we institutionalise and medicate individuals who’s brains experience the world different than our’s without ever considering that both realities may be equally valid.
