lost somewhere between immensity and eternity
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August of ‘65
| me: | *just chilin* |
| brain: | hey guess what |
| me: | what |
| brain: | sudden overwhelming sadness, that's what |
| me: | |
| me, softly: | come on, man |
(Via edbuyshouses Source: leftboob-enthusiast) 250,499 notes | 7 years ago
If we were eyeless we’d be unaware of color. What if we’re missing some part of reality because we don’t have the organ to detect it?
There’s no what if about this. We see a different directory of colour to bees and birds. Mantis shrimp see a different spectrum again. Elephants and bats and dolphins, dogs and cats hear frequencies of sound we can’t. All kinds of organisms can perceive electrical fields and magnetic north (there’s an argument that foxes use it to help them hunt below the snow); there are multiple animals with thermo senses and others that can taste airborne chemical compounds we wouldn’t ever be able to detect alone. Humanity in no way has the definitive view of the world- it doesn’t “look” or “sound” the way we experience it - a large portion of which is our brains making “best guess” assumptions based on tiny snapshots of data and pay patterns. Tl;dr we are squinting and straining through a pinhole at a universe that is stranger and wilder than we have the ability to comprehend.
I’m wasting my youth and beauty being a mysterious eccentric loner but I wouldn’t have it any other way
(Via edbuyshouses Source: psxgfx-deactivated20180706) 74,086 notes | 7 years ago
