Post #2623374

@slavetosociety@mastodon.social That’s exactly it! They are unfamiliar to us, and the freshness is such a beautiful surprise. Nicely put. I am also not certain how accidental such things really are, either, given how we register but don’t register, if you like. I thought you might like this quote I just read some students in relation to that / accidents - from Christoph Cox. :) “…This virtual field has, for Leibniz, a truly cosmic significance. Each of the ‘minute perceptions’ that unconsciously determine conscious perception is itself the effect of causes that ramify out to infinity. Each individual wave is the result of a multitude of forces: the speed and direction of the wind, air temperature and pressure, the temperature and viscosity of the water, and so on. As a result, each conscious perception is the local registration of the entire state of the universe at any given moment. The same is true of memory. The reservoir of memory contains not only particular memories or experiences — traces of all the past events I have experienced — but everything to which those experiences and memories are connected: in short, the entirety of the past. This is not an extravagant idea if we acknowledge that, evolutionarily speaking, I am my entire past— my personal past as well as the past of my entire species and, indeed, of natural history in general…” Either way, it is a wonderful gift we somehow ended up open to such moments - such inputs - and don’t demand explicit conscious decision making!