All Life Will Die, All Mind Will

To A Space Alien Or A German Shepherd Dog, Two Humans Would Be Indistinguishable, Just As Attractive And Unattractive Space Aliens And German Shepherd Dogs Are Difficult For You To Tell Apart.

You Are Part Of A Complex Social Network That Changes Your Biology With Every Interaction, And Which Your Actions Can Change.

Each Cell Sends Electrical Pulses To Other Cells, Up To Hundreds Of Times Per Second. If You Represented Each Of These Trillions And Trillions Of Pulses In Your Brain By A Single Photon Of Light, The Combined Output Would Be Blinding.

The Brain "fills In" The Missing Information From The Blind Spot. Notice What You See In The Location Of The Dot When It's In Your Blind Spot. When The Dot Disappears, You Do Not Perceive A Hole Of Whiteness Or Blackness In Its Place; Instead Your Brain Invents A Patch Of The Background Pattern. Your Brain, With No Information From That Particular Spot In Visual Space, Fills In With The Patterns Around It. You're Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

Asleep Vision (dreaming) Is Perception That Is Not Tied Down To Anything In The Real World; Waking Perception Is Something Like Dreaming With A Little More Commitment To What's In Front Of You.