5 Reader Responses

1. Svenson Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 3:55 pm

   I gotta know your take Tim:

   http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

   Clockwise or counter-clockwise??? What’s your first impression?

2. Tim Boucher Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 4:22 pm

   First counter, then clockwise. Now unshakeable.

   This has to do with how the brain perceives time. I wrote about this in my notebook the other night. Half of your brain sees time backwards, I think. There is some kind of mechanism which I think may be possible to switch to cause your temporal location to shift, possibly wherever you want it. It may be just science fiction though, but I had the distinct impression of it the other night. You can become “unstuck in time” and most people who it happens to are accidental victims of it with no frame of reference.

   But that’s also ridiculous conjecture, right?

3. Svenson Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 7:20 pm

   I don’t think its ridiculous. We tend to write off things like this as “our brains” acting funny, but I think our whole reality is our brains…Which is not to say that there is some physical reality out there we are simply perceiving through our brains, its to say that reality itself is most effectively viewed as thought, and “physical reality” as just another mental abstraction.

   What I’m trying to say is that I believe the universe is made of information, and space and time are illusions.

   Once I found a book in a bookstore on Chaos magick, years and years ago. It said when you lose something, conciously forget having looked in a certain place for it and then look there. It worked, it let me find things that I lost…but it was a mind flip thing like with the picture, and eventually my mind “adapted” to it somehow so I couldn’t do it anymore. But it was a learning experience. The idea behind it was that we project both the future and past from the present.

4. Julia Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 8:56 pm

   Ellen started off one show by dancing through the studio as a joke and people liked it so she keeps on dancing.

5. Tim Boucher Says:
   November 1st, 2007 at 12:49 am

   That’s because everyone likes dancing.