Smellevision? Who Nose When?

How long before another major milestone in technology is reached? I'm talking about the ability to send smell over the airwaves or place them on digital media.

Years ago the ability to put sound on various mediums was reached. Then visual images. Next, smell. Imagine the possibilities when that milestone is reached! Picture the scene! A breakfast with hot bacon, fresh bread, fried eggs and ham. Or wandering on the beach and the scent of salty air filling your nose. How about the aroma of perfume wafting through your living room as you watch a movie with people attending a dinner party? Or the smells while you watch the Food Channel?

Then again, what about wandering through a garbage dump? How about the decay of a rotting animal as you view the Outdoor Channel? The smell of a skunk as it crosses the road or the odor of a chemical plant during a high-speed chase scene?

The potential is limitless. How soon before our olfactory senses are part of the movie experience? What do you think? Five, ten, fifteen years? Or less? Smellevision will debut sometime, but who nose when?

Infinite Input. Finite Space.

A computer has a finite amount of storage space whether it be one megabyte or one terabyte. But there is a point where it gets full.

On the other hand, your finite brain is different. It never gets full. It processes information, purges what it doesn't need and stores other useful information. Yet, despite the daily dose of auditory, visual, olfactory and tactile sensory input, the brain always has room to store more. Every day you see new things, encounter new situations or live new experiences. You read new books, see new movies, make new friends, go new places, and yet, you can recall them at a later date with relative ease. The brain stores them and doesn't get full, no matter how much is poured in.

If computer memories had the same abilities, what an amazing machine that would be. But only the human mind has been created with that potential and ability. Wow! Now that's something to think about!

A Whole Glob of Colored Waves

Think of all the various waves that surround us. Radio waves, microwaves, electro-magnetic waves, light waves and more. The list goes on and on. Now imagine if all of those waves that exist outside of the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be seen. Let's assign a different color to each "invisible" wave. What would you see? A potpourri of colored lines intertwining and swirling through the air. So many would exist that it is doubtful that you could even see where you were going. Fortunately for us, we only see a tiny fraction of the waves that exist. Otherwise, we'd probably be be "blind" to everything around us!

Feline Freakiness

Cats

Staring at nothing. Freaking you out.

Sleeping. Always.

Stretching. Claws like knives slicing the air.

Running. Like elephants. Loud. Like bugs. Silent.

Attacking your legs. Without warning. Scaring you to death.

Chasing anything that moves. Shredding. Attacking. Killing. Sleeping.

Climbing to the highest point. Watching the world below.

Condescending.

Better than all others.

Obedient, when they want. Rarely.

Controlling their surroundings.

Revenge as needed.

Strange, lovable creatures. Trouble-makers of fuzz.

Magnetic Minds?

Consider this tidbit. Your mind uses electro-chemical means to store memories. Synapses, dendrites, axions and other scientific labels describe parts of the brain.

But imagine if your brain stored information like a computer or other electro-mechanical device. A computer hard drive can be erased or severely damaged if exposed to a strong magnetic field. Imagine if your brain were as sensitive? What a mess the human race would be! Walk past a substation or near an MRI machine and poof! Your memory is scrambled or gone. Life would be short-lived at best if extreme safety measures weren't employed.

Aren't you glad you don't have a magnetic, digitized, randomly accessed memory controlled by ones and zeroes?

Color Blind

Is the color you see really the color your eyes and brain tell you it is? No. What!? Consider. If you look at a red car, the car is not really red. In actuality it is green. (The combination of blue and yellow.) What you are seeing are the light waves that have been reflected off of the surface. The other colors (blue and yellow) have been absorbed by the material. You are seeing cast off light rays of red light.

The same principle applies to all objects. A tree doesn't really have green leaves. They are red. But only in the spring and summer. In the autumn when you see the variety of colors such as red, yellow, orange and so on, you are seeing reflected light. In actuality, the tree leaves are absorbing such colors as green, purple, blue and more.

An isn't it interesting that when all colors of light waves are combined they make white light, but if you combine all colors of say paint, they make black?

Think. Ponder. See the light.

Nothing Makes Sense Does It?

Think of nothing. Can you? If you are thinking of nothing, then you are thinking of something. Is it really possible to think of nothing? As a matter of fact, what is nothing? The absence of something.

Consider this. If nothing in creation, the universe, everything we know of, ever existed could you call it nothing? If nothing is the absence of something, but nothing ever existed, there would be no absence of something. Nothing is a definition that describes this situation of absence and has been conjured up in the human mind to explain this lack of substance. So, if nothing we know of ever existed, nothing as defined above would be a fallacy. There would be no void, no blackness, no lack of something because something never was present. A void is the result of something missing. Blackness is the lack of color or the combination of all colors depending on whether or not it is light waves or physical material such as paint. So "nothing" couldn't exist. Your mind cannot grasp this concept. It's impossible to wrap your brain around this apparent quandary because nothing as we know it is the result of something missing.

Wow! Can you explain that? I have nothing more to say.

Strange Conniving Beings Rolled in Fur

Cats are strange. I have several. Their world is one of sleep, eat, hunt, play, bury their waste. Rough. If only my life were as easy. But, then again, would I have a mind that inquisitively pondered things around me? And would I want to use a litter box?

I've watched the cats eating. If their food is in a bowl, they eat from it. But give them a plate or large tray or dish with food scraps and they no longer eat their food where it's been placed. Watch them next time. And then answer me this. Why is it that no matter how big their serving dish is, they always insist on moving the food off of it and onto the floor or carpet? I swear that if I gave them a dish an acre square, they would drag their food to the far edges until it was pulled off the dish and onto the ground they've chosen to eat on. Intriguing. Strange. Maddening.

Cats. Strange conniving beings rolled in fur.

Uno Squared

The fog lies heavily outside my window. Swirling tendrils of water vapor snake through the trees as if searching for something to eat.

I type.

The world is full of interesting things, things out of the ordinary. I look for these. They are there. They exist.

You must open your eyes to find them. Or should I say open your mind. Don't be satisfied with the norm. Step outside the box. Look around. Be aware. Have a different sense of humor. Don't stagnate.

An example. If you could see through everything, you'd be blind.

Cogitate beyond the cube!