Every wise man knows
To make time for both Work & Leisure.
But no more wise could be the wiser,
'Less first a fool exist.
'Wise' is an adjective. For it, or any adjective for that matter, to exist it relies solely and contingently on the existence of a contrast. For if all were wise, then all would be normal, and no man would ever be the wiser. Here, I play the fool because rather than understanding the wise man and his practices, I foolishly understood it to mean quite literally dress for work but be at a place of leisure. Perhaps a suit would have been more telling.
In any case, this contrast principal applies much to your eyes. Your vision is in constant reorientation in order to merely best process the images of light in front of you to, methodically, produce some sort of sense or image by stimulating AND inhibiting the reception of hundreds upon hundreds of stimuli..
Here's some consideration for your cerebral soil. Did you know:
- People who are blind actually still perceive images and are unaware they do not have vision?
- If you hang by your knees on a pull up bar long enough, your brain will actually FLIP the what was upside down world, right side up as you continue to hang?
- Your images when you dream are as real as such, because your dreams are producing very real images though not from your ocular input.
Which prompt the question that may help one better understand the half depth to which philosophers spent their lives just...thinking...how do we know what reality is, when we no nothing more about the outside world that simply what our eyes sense and mind perceive it to be.
this is a good little chunk of writing right here...after one week of neuroanatomy - i'm in love and i can't wait to get to the part about dreams and vision. it's so cool to me because the brain is so largely misunderstood whereas everything else in the body is down to a science..haha "a science". its also cool to me because neuroanatomy is still and rightfully so in the realm of philosophy. is our brain so complex that we won't ever fully understand it? just like every other historical tract of discovery - i think we will one day in the distant future, but that day is terrifying as much as it is anticipated. people might figure out a way to control emotions or something as wicked like mythical love potions.
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