Your brain, after all, is encased in darkness and silence in the vault of the skull. Its only contact with the outside world is via the electrical signals exiting and entering along the super-highways of nerve bundles. Because different types of sensory information (hearing, seeing, touch, and so on) are processed at different speeds by different neural architectures, your brain faces an enormous challenge: what is the best story that can be constructed about the outside world?
Again, an extremely materialistic view in the new Edge newsletter that came by mail today … as well what I read from Francois Furet
Wir sind in einen einmaligen Horizont der Geschichte eingeschlossen, werden im Strom einer immer größeren Uniformierung der Welt und einer grösseren Versklavung des Individuums durch die Wirtschaft mitgeschleift und sind dazu verdammt, lediglich die Wirkungen etwas bremsen zu können, ohne Zgriff auf die Ursachen zu haben.
Nevertheless I have to think of the Blue Brothers
Reverend Cleophus James: HAVE YOU SEEEEN THE LIGHT?
Jake: YES! YES! JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST… I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!