Greenland

November 4th, 2008

Two odd concepts popped into my head yesterday.
Warning: This post is a bit too much on tech terms.

I was staring down at my sleeve with poor lighting, and once I stopped moving I noticed that I could no longer tell how far away my arm was from my eyes. With poor lighting, I saw 2D.

Then, while explaining “virtual memory” at work, a thought popped into my mind.

Our minds are made up of 2: the conscious, and the un-conscious.
Simply put, the conscious is what you control, the un-conscious is what you cannot control.

So, let’s say the un-conscious is a computer hard drive. This hard drive is made up of 90 GB. This hard drive is where we store our memories and what keeps the computer running on auto-pilot without breaking the hardware. Then we have our virtual memory, this memory isn’t really there, it’s made for us to seem real, a projectory, and it works because of some chips that hold about 10 GB. This is our conscious mind, it lets us open memories from our hard drive, the un-conscious. Virtual memory is what you see on a computer screen, what is open, what we see exists. There isn’t an actual “Greenland” website inside of you, memory data is just open, and makes you see it virtually, you don’t see it because it’s physical, it is not physical. Sometimes, we know that we have a piece of information on our hard rive, but it doesn’t pop-up at the top of our minds. So we concentrate and search for keywords that might find this file, and there it is, now opened in our virtual memory.

We only use 10% of our mind, only because we only use 10 GB of our whole 100 GB mind. The remaining 90%, or 90 GB, is just a memory disk with administrative tools. In fact, we don’t quite know exactly what the un-conscious does, because it doesn’t make it a conscious thing for us to know. We cannot see it, therefor we do not know. Our un-conscious collects data from our eyes, ears, nervous system, etc. But we do not realize what it is, until the un-conscious brings it up on our “conscious screen” – what we see, what we know, what we are. We turn off the computer monitor screen when we go to sleep, the computer is still fully working. We only know who and what we are, when we wake up. This means that our knowledge of existence comes from our conscious mind. Could this mean that our reality is only being projected to us from our un-conscious? Is “I” a virtual being of my mind?

This almost sounds as if we are only seeing the 3D, because of the lighting. Without light, X & Y would still exist, but we wouldn’t acknowledge of it’s existence. We would just be living in what we know, pitch black.

Hmm..

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