We have established that space has three dimensions ,
now imagine space with four ,five ,six…up to eleven dimensions
Imagining Other Dimensions !!? Our brains may not be equipped to picture pertaining ten spatial dimensions, but see if you can get to at least one extra physical dimension here; a hyper cube is an object that has four physical dimensions. Projecting the shadow of a cube that is three dimensional on a wall, would be a two dimensional square shadow …agree?
If you project a hyper cube, which is a cube with four dimensions that would have 24 sides all these planes are perpendicular to each other, angles of 90 degrees. Projecting the hyper cube that has four dimensions on to a three-dimension space will look three-dimensional: something like this
So If the old Understanding that the earth is flat, the Sun rotates around it is all but gone knowledge and believes (sic); So does our views of the universe changes from time to time (enduring changes) the impermanence of our understanding of this universe. The "truth" which intellect can attain is a perpetually changing one. Thinking can never arrive at a final conclusion that is completely final, or at an absolutely true "truth."
There for knowledge is impermanent and continually changing some becomes obsolete; some of the knowledge that we thought is the truth dissipates, and some of the knowledge endures to another segment of time.
“The science of human nature is, like all other sciences, reduced to a few clear points: There are not many certain truths in this world. It is therefore in the anatomy of the mind as in that of the body; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which will for ever escape our observation”.
Essay on Man/ Alexander Pope
Our physical Senses such as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching , has relative perception and limited capability
there for the truths are subject to everyone’s own interpretations. Since our senesces have no ability to recognize the full truth, the elegance and riveting to this can only be found in poetry
“To seek the light of truth; while truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile?
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”
(Shakespeare) Love's Labor’s Lost, Act I, Scene I, line 77
WALTER J. FREEMAN is professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, BerkeleyFrom: February 1991 Scientific American, Vol 264, (2) Pgs. 78-85. . He received an M.D. from Yale University in 1954 and completed postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, in l959, the year he joined the Berkeley faculty.
He says in the The (Physiology of Perception) The universe is nothing but sparks of electricity that are firing in our neurons !
The brain transforms sensory messages into conscious perceptions almost instantly; collective activity involving millions of neurons seems essential for such rapid recognition.
When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favorite food or hears the voice of a friend, recognition is instant. Within a fraction of a second after the eyes, nose, ears, tongue or skin is stimulated, one knows the object is familiar and whether it is desirable or dangerous. How does such recognition, which psychologists call preattentive perception, happen so accurately and quickly, even when the stimuli are complex and the context in which they arise varies?
An understanding of perception must be based on knowledge of the properties of the neurons that enact it. Walter J. Freeman said: My colleagues and I have concentrated in many of our studies on neurons of the olfactory system. For years it has been known that when an animal or a person sniffs an odorant, molecules carrying the scent are captured by a few of the immense number of receptor neurons in the nasal passages; the receptors are somewhat specialized in the kinds of odorants to which they respond. Cells that become excited fire action potentials, or pulses, which propagate through projections called axons to a part of the cortex known as the olfactory bulb.
The bulb analyzes each input pattern and then synthesizes its own message, which it transmits via axons to another part of the olfactory system, the olfactory cortex. From there, new signals are sent to many parts of the brain-not the least of which is an area called the entorhinal cortex The result is a meaning-laden perception, a gestalt, that is unique to each individual. For a dog, the recognition of the scent of a fox may carry the memory of food and expectation of a meal. For a rabbit, the same scent may arouse memories of chase and fear of attack.
Many of our insights were derived from intensive studies of the olfactory bulb. And that every neuron in the bulb participates in generating each olfactory perception.
I begin to envision the general dynamics of perception. The brain seeks information, mainly by directing an individual to look, listen and sniff. The search results from self-organizing activity in the limbic system (a part of the brain that includes the entorhinal cortex and is thought to be involved in emotion and memory),
And respond they do, with every neuron in a given region participating in a collective activity-a burst. Synchronous activity in each system is then transmitted back to the limbic system, where it combines with similarly generated output from other sensory systems to form a gestalt. Then, within a fraction of a second, another search for information is demanded, and the sensory systems are prepared again by reference.
“Consciousness may well be the subjective experience of this recursive process of motor command, reference and perception”.
If so, it enables the brain to plan and prepare for each subsequent action on the basis of past action, sensory input and perceptual synthesis. In short, an act of perception is not the copying of an incoming stimulus. It is a step in a trajectory by which brains grow, reorganize themselves and reach into their environment to change it to their own advantage.
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