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 Uploading ....Man’s perception of reality is driven by his physical being.
As man is hardwired to try to survive, his languages, religions, philosophies and physics are based on conserved objects (As man would like to be.) that vary in a neutral (Homogeneous and isotropic) environment that does not destroy the integrity of the object.
Man’s languages feature objects (Nouns) that vary (Verbs), his religions feature idealized objects (Souls) that exist and vary in the perfect environment (Heaven), his philosophies feature the object (“I”) existing and varying in some yet undiscovered way (Existence), and his physics features fundamental objects that vary in a homogeneous and isotropic environment.
Although man makes a great effort to model a reality that perpetuates his immorality, it seems clear that reality consists of matter and events, and that events act on matter and changes its’ physical properties. As a Greek philosopher once said, “You cannot step into the same river twice.”, and likewise “The same you cannot step into the same river twice”. You change the river, and the river changes you.
Events and matter and objects and “physical properties” go hand in hand.
Man has classified objects by the physical properties they possess, and organized objects with similar properties into sets such as electrons, protons, dogs, cats and stars.
In addition to acting on matter and changing its’ physical properties, events also change the populations of the sets affected by the event, sometimes at the macroscopic level, and always at the most fundamental level. “For want of a shoe, a horse was lost…”
Events are quanta of change and events are ordered on exponential changes that are occurring in the observer’s environment.
A physical property is an aspect of an object that can be experienced using one of the five human senses: touch, taste, smell, sight or sound, or, in an extended sense, detected through a measuring device.
Time is the most fundamental physical property, and all other physical properties are defined in terms of time. Time in the most fundamental sense, is a count of ticks associated with an observer’s clock, and sets of observers select some standard clock as a standard by which to organize their perceptions and behavior.
Man’s selection of his standard clock is also related to his hard wiring. Man’s central processing unit appears to be his hippocampus, a double branched structure at the base of the brain. Event first impact man’s reflex system, and after a short delay, the hardwired memory known as instinct, and after that, the hippocampus come into action and correlates the event with past events that have been stored in long term memory.
If the hippocampus is damaged, a person cannot build new memories, and lives instead in a strange world where everything they experience just fades away, even while older memories from the time before the damage are untouched! This very unfortunate situation is fairly accurately portrayed in the movies Memento and "Fifty first dates".
Tom Potter http://www.tompotter.us
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