Oct
29
“KARY: […] If you think about yourself as something going through time, how thick are you? You’ve got to have a certain finite “thickness” in time, or you wouldn’t exist. So you might be a fraction of a second, or a second wide, or five, sliding through time.
DAVID: And your “thickness” may change, depending on your neurochemistry at the time. (laughter)
KARY: Yes.
DAVID: Perhaps our conscious experience of “now” has a thinner “thickness” than other unconscious aspects of our brains? I’ve wondered if this possibility might be an explanation for what people have described as precognition. What do you think?
KARY: It might be that certain part of you are weeks, months, or years wide. Or maybe some part of you is “now” all the time — from your birth (or maybe even before birth) to your death. Some part of you is in the future at any moment, and some parts of you is in the past, because you couldn’t possibly be just in this infinitesimally thin thing we call “now” — because there wouldn’t be room for you in there. (laughter)
That’s using a lot of concepts that come out of physics and maybe don’t belong in that context, but I’ve always thought that a little bit of me has got to be in the future.
DAVID: Or part of your brain can be processing information about an aspect of “now” that you’re not quite conscious of.
KARY: Not yet conscious of, or maybe you won’t ever be. Maybe it sticks out in lots of directions. (laughter) I mean, there’s no need for this place to be just three-dimensional space and time.” “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
DAVID: And your “thickness” may change, depending on your neurochemistry at the time. (laughter)
KARY: Yes.
DAVID: Perhaps our conscious experience of “now” has a thinner “thickness” than other unconscious aspects of our brains? I’ve wondered if this possibility might be an explanation for what people have described as precognition. What do you think?
KARY: It might be that certain part of you are weeks, months, or years wide. Or maybe some part of you is “now” all the time — from your birth (or maybe even before birth) to your death. Some part of you is in the future at any moment, and some parts of you is in the past, because you couldn’t possibly be just in this infinitesimally thin thing we call “now” — because there wouldn’t be room for you in there. (laughter)
That’s using a lot of concepts that come out of physics and maybe don’t belong in that context, but I’ve always thought that a little bit of me has got to be in the future.
DAVID: Or part of your brain can be processing information about an aspect of “now” that you’re not quite conscious of.
KARY: Not yet conscious of, or maybe you won’t ever be. Maybe it sticks out in lots of directions. (laughter) I mean, there’s no need for this place to be just three-dimensional space and time.” “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
