Humans have an excess of sensibility. We have, so to speak, more nervous system than is necessary for the purely vegetative functions.
(In fact, this more or less defines the nervous system: cells that are superfluous to vegetative functions, and expand in pursuit of affinity.
(In fact, this more or less defines the nervous system: cells that are superfluous to vegetative functions, and expand in pursuit of affinity.
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1333436782172631041
...All cells are electrically charged, i.e. have ionic imbalance; it's just that nerve cells have a more expansive and ordered domain.)
Because of this excess of sensibility (i.e. nerves), we are axiomatically inclined to check for problems even when they aren't near.
Because of this excess of sensibility (i.e. nerves), we are axiomatically inclined to check for problems even when they aren't near.
Alcohol and opiates appeal to humans because they depress the central nervous system, and bring you to the present moment. A high enough dose will reduce you to mere vegetative function, and maybe even less than that.
Being in the present eliminates desire, and is thus pleasant.
Being in the present eliminates desire, and is thus pleasant.
This might be a happy arrangement, were it not for the fact that
a) You will return to normality, so you'll have to keep taking the drug and become enslaved to a material arrangement
b) Properly grappling with time, desire, anxiety, etc, requires sensibility and sobriety
a) You will return to normality, so you'll have to keep taking the drug and become enslaved to a material arrangement
b) Properly grappling with time, desire, anxiety, etc, requires sensibility and sobriety
This excess of activity, over and above vegetative function, is the basis of cognition. Without it, consciousness would be entirely disordered. This is what happens on hallucinogenic drugs.
Consciousness loses its cognitive (i.e. temporal) character and becomes geometric.
Consciousness loses its cognitive (i.e. temporal) character and becomes geometric.
Photoreceptor cells are the most positively polarised part of the nervous system. It's here, so to speak, that the nervous system has its eye on.
Without light, the nervous system loses its impetus. With light, it picks up again.
See related thread here:
Without light, the nervous system loses its impetus. With light, it picks up again.
See related thread here:
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1257370084600840192
This is why photoreceptors are positively polarised compared to the rest of the nervous system. Everything is heading there, and it's why you identify *as your eyes*
Notice when someone is on a depressant/anaesthetic or in pain, they no longer seem to be present in the eyes
Eg.
Notice when someone is on a depressant/anaesthetic or in pain, they no longer seem to be present in the eyes
Eg.
The centre of the nervous system is deeper within them, due to weakness or distraction of some kind.
Their consciousness dims as they no longer pay much attention to light in all its brilliance.
See also:
Their consciousness dims as they no longer pay much attention to light in all its brilliance.
See also:
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1315337098380091394
Light has its quality because it's radiant as opposed to self-contained (thermal conduction).
In the photoreceptor end of our flesh, there is one final lunge of superfluity into the external world. We see the energy which has not yet turned into self-contained heat.
In the photoreceptor end of our flesh, there is one final lunge of superfluity into the external world. We see the energy which has not yet turned into self-contained heat.
Radiant heat—the remnant superfluous energy which has survived the process of thermodynamic decay in the course of its travels—is what we call light.
The energy which didn't radiate is thermodynamically self-contained: we call this 'matter'. It consumed light as heat.
The energy which didn't radiate is thermodynamically self-contained: we call this 'matter'. It consumed light as heat.
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