Sometimes, I’m struck with wonder at things I normally take for granted. Like seeing.
Photons hit flesh which transforms them to electric signals. These signals travel to the brain, which then constructs a mental image of the rich, immersive reality we see. Isn’t that insane?
The light doesn’t reach your brain - so it has literally never experienced light other than through the proxy of electric signals from the eyes, in a language only the two understand, evolved over millennia.
Michael Kazarnowicz /
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2024-03-27 17:50:53
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