I feel , when we listen a beautiful melody, our response is faster
than google by
far. in fact, our mind's anticipation of the next note, feels it
before it arrives.
mando
On Dec 25, 2008, at 1:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 12/24/08 12:08:52 PM, [email protected]
writes:
I don't think we can talk anymore of sequential process in
consciousness,
cognition, etc. We may invent a sequence to sort out something
complex but
our brains are operating on multiple neuron-firing sequences
simultaneously.
So
in the end to say we respond emotionally first or last is meaningless
(except maybe in subconscious brain stem activity.
This is interesting. Say I turn my head just to check the traffic
at the very
moment a car is rushing toward me. I would have thought that what
would
follow would be, first, realization of what was happening, and only
then
fright.
The "realization" need not be "conscious".
(I'm open to the idea that the subconscious does lots of processing
and
"thought" before the thought becomes conscious. It seems obvious to
me that
that's
what's happening when I try to remember, say, a movie actor's
name: I'm
sitting there mumbling, what the hell's his name, and suddenly --
pop! there
it is
in my larynx, or in a visualization of the letters of his name.)
What isn't clear to me how/why my subconscious could/would be
frightened
until after it had processed the threat. Have you read of convincing
neurological
research that the realization and the fright are unquestionably
simultaneous
-- as distinguished from simply being separated by such a tiny time-
interval
that current machinery can't discern it? When I put some requests
to Google
the response seems "instantaneous", but we know an immense amount of
"searching"
must have taken place.
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