View Single Post
  #24  
Old 08-16-2006, 12:30 PM
Vodstok's Avatar
Vodstok Vodstok is offline
Fear scented candle
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The edge of forever
Posts: 13,650
Quote:
Originally posted by Roderick Usher
Isn't it all illusion, really? How much of what we know is actual? We cannot trust what we see, because everything is filtered through sense images and memory. The entire concept of the present is an illusion.

Look at anything...The object you are seeing is he memory of an object, a sense image created by the transfer of information from light into nerve impulse and then decoded in the brain. This may take the tiniest nano-fraction of a second, but it still takes time...everything is memory. Everything is illusion.

How's that for scary?

my brain hurts
Eventually you have toget past all of the philosophical crap and just accept that things are. Because if you could stop believing in yourself out of existance, i know a few people who wouldnt be here anymore.
__________________
Some misguided people decided I was funny enough to pay. See if they're right:
http://www.cracked.com/members/Vodstok/
(I tweet pretty hardcore, too)
Reply With Quote