Are they actually used to view the past... We see light but it is not instantaneous, sound waves take time to travel to our ears. Feeling is the same. And smell is obliviously delayed. And taste is the same as feel taking micros of a second to reach our brain and to process it. I watched Deja vu and it got me thinking. How do you see it. Do you feel the movie has any possible truth to it at all. AND I KNOW IT IS JUST A MOVIE I JUST WANT SOME OPINIONS.
2007-11-01 11:34:56 · 4 answers · asked by Missouri Focus 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The feeling is not in the past. Light has to travel, and so does sound, its not a matter of it being from the past, but a matter of how long it takes to stimulate your senses after leaving its source.
and as far as the second it takes to feel, well again the signal from the nerves needs to reach your mind before you can actually feel it.
The source producing the light (switching on the light) happened in the past, but the light itself is in the present.
2007-11-01 11:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by Paul M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually.. I have a different point of view.. If we imagine how a bee sees the world, and still thinks it is as it sees it... we would laugh hard.
In the moonlight, things appear so different than in the day. Everything though is the same except for the light. In a red light, we would feel about things differently. Even some colors would appear different!
Compare between our vision and a microscopic vision... it would be so different also.
You can start with this key, and go on thinking how real is the image our senses give us about the world.
2007-11-01 11:54:24 · answer #2 · answered by Psychological Moment 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are looking at a star (closest 8 light minutes away) what you see, hear taste touch and smell is here and now. You smell a rose, it is probably in your hand, you hear a "kaboom" and see a starburst, a fire work has just gone off, you touch the softness of a baby's face the baby is there here and now. No "past" at all.,
2007-11-01 11:45:10 · answer #3 · answered by jemhasb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen the movie but it sounds interesting.
I suppose we are all kind of lving in the past really then, but if everybody is living in the past the we really are in the present because none of us can see the future.
If that makes any sense at all then I love you. Anywayz....
2007-11-01 11:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by AnythingCanHappen! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋