Monday, February 7, 2011

Adrenaline

I think that adrenaline is for creating focus. A normal person or a house cat has a short attention span, meaning it is impossible for them to maintain focus on a static, non-changing object for more than a couple seconds at a time. Inevitably, their focus will shift to some other world or mind object. A person cannot naturally think of only one thing for a longer stretch than a moment. It is impossible to do this. The mind is in motion at all times and cannot be naturally kept in focus on one non-real object for longer than it takes to think of an idea. This is because objects, in the mind, have no boundary or structure in the literal sense, and so are fluid and connect to other ideas without prejudice. Adrenaline functions when an animal needs to focus in order to heed toward their survival. The Adrenaline pumps in and an animal can then focus with more precision, over longer periods of time thus allowing them to survive in a world containing threat and danger.

Adrenaline allows us to focus in this way perhaps because the mind is moving faster when it is on adrenaline. It skips over rates of thoughts at higher intervals per second thus allowing the animal to quickly train their mind to focus on one object. Normal processes of habituating oneself take a longer period of time to train. But on adrenaline, the mind is moving at such a speed that the animal can to train their mind faster. Perhaps this is why motivation plays such a key role in learning. And perhaps it also explains a little why the source of our inspiration is such a mystery to us: it remains fogged by the unknown processes of our instincts.

This conversation perhaps lends itself to the notion that there are, indeed, frequencies of thought. But rather than adhere the term "frequency" to a non-real concept, such as is "higher orders of thought", we can adhere it to a measurable interval, which is real because it is mesaurable. This gives us a method for affirming the conjectures of our rational thought thus giving us a realm of knowledge, rather than giving us a term that is non-rational that we have to accept as rational thus making us accept something on faith in a realm where faith has no bearing.

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