Think about your five senses for a moment, and how difficult it would be to “make sense” of anything without them.
When you think about your brain, do you picture it as sitting in the dark?
Yep, your brain is all alone in a container of bone, sitting in the dark. The reason you don’t FEEL like your brain is sitting in the dark is because it has created a mental picture of the world. It makes sense of the world by building a mental simulation of your environment based on a constant flood of information streaming in from various combinations of your five senses. Your brain is constantly updating this internal world based on the data coming in from what you touch, what you see and hear and taste and smell.
Sure, thinking about the five senses might seem like little more than grade school science class, but some things are worth a second look. Sometimes we forget the basics.
So in case you haven’t thought about it recently, everything you think you know about the world around you is a framework constructed inside a warm glob of electrified nerve cell connections. Every change you notice in the world around you is registered inside a pink and gray blob floating in a warm liquid soup, resting gently in a cradle of protective bone.
In the dark…
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