Thursday, June 21, 2012

Macrocosmic Stimulation, Microcosmic Simulation

Just as the telescope has helped refute the commonsense thesis that the Sun revolves around the Earth, the microscope has helped refute the commonsense thesis that the macrocosmos, i. e. the environment that encompasses one, is immediately perceived.  For, as neurological science reveals, the initial impulse of a neural path occurs prior to perception, and as optical science shows, impulses are transformed in the interval.  In other words, microcosmic simulation occurs after macrocosmic stimulation.  So, even without taking into account how the antecedent condition of a specific neural path, or eyes, further influences the processing of the stimulus, microscopic analysis helps demonstrate that the two events are not identical, contrary to the commonsense thesis.

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