Taste...

[Farrowlesparrow]

...Isnt it weird?

Ive just been eating some chocolate and i was thinking about what i was tasting. Its just so strange when you really think about it. You can know all the science behind it, yet that doesnt make it seem any less odd.

As a matter of fact, i find most things about the human body weird. The fact that im looking at the screen as im typing. Im taking in all this stuff through my eyes, while at the same time i can feel my fingers hitting the keyboard and the way my arm is hurting from resting on the arm of my chair. But while those stand out, i can hear the ambient sounds coming from upstairs, my music, my brothers music, the sound of the keyboard and my foot tapping against the wall. Then there is the feeling of warmth against the rest of my body and the feeling that im getting from touching my clothes, and sitting on my chair. Even after all that i can smell an array of different things, including the one which stands out most, my drink...


...and of course while all this is going on, i am enjoying the taste of a piece of chocolate.

 

[DarkStar]

If I ever think about that kind of stuff to much, I slowly start going insane.

 

[mchammer75040]

I know exactly what you mean, the human body is amazing. I remember acouple of nights ago I was walking around downtown thinking about my paintings, and it occured to me that I was thinking..yet I dont know how. I cant even begin to describe the process of thinking. Its just so amazing and most completely take it for granted.

the same could be said for our technology right now, the whole world is so damn advanced. Im sitting in a well air conditioned room, with headphones on chatting with people who live millions of miles away from me...thats incredible. Maybe we should all reflect more and appreciate things...

(sorry if I drug that alittle off-topic)

 

[GhostValkyrie]

I just took a bite of a strawberry that's apparently going bad from the inside. Gah! while you were thinking about what you were tasting, I was trying to think less about what I was tasting.

Gah! Gah!

 

[Lil' Timmy]

someone needs to lay off the maryjane

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah...Just think that thousands of years ago this would have probably seen so impossibly amazing to almost everyone, that they would have felt they were going insane or something.

Its just weird how there are roads outside my house, roads built by people that i had nothing to do with. This house im in is as old as the USA and so much has happened before ive been alive...Crazy stuff.

 

[Maxi]

I think like that about stuff too sometimes... it's cool.

 

[Axyon]

It is fascinating when you think about it, yeah. How so many things could have been done differently...

 

[Crushenator 500]

im thinking about my arm resting in a puddle of water on my desk that spilt out a bit when i put my cup down but am too lazy to clean up and my canneloni [which is pretty good] that im eating, whilst thinking what to type and listening to music.[ behind blue eyes - the who]

 

[Dedalus]

yep, it's called being self aware. as far as we understand human are the only animals capable of being self aware, but of course we can't prove for certain that other animals aren't self aware. one thing i like about the human body is, with practice you can release a huge fart that would otherwise be a loud ripper, but release it in a slow low pitched whirring rumbling sound. i mean come on! what other animal can control their farts!

 

[Brian Damage]

The Fart-Propelled Argentinian Blurpcow, of course.

I'm always watching what I do, and what I think. When you're aware of how you think, it's easier to change it...

 

[Crushenator 500]

The Fart-Propelled Argentinian Blurpcow, of course.

LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!! :cheers:

 

[spookymooky]

i actually think about this kinda stuff a lot. Another cool thing to do is trace back the path of your thoughts, if that makes any sense, and marvel at the pattern that brought you to thinking about the path of your thoughts. Trust me it makes sense; im just bad at expressin it in words.

 

[Shippi]

I know what you mean, spookymonkey. And if I ever forget what I was gonna say I can always backtrack through my thoughts, and that reminds me of what I was gonna say... it's weird

I think our language is amazing. I can't speak another language. When I listen to the French listening tests in school it all sounds so fast and garbled, but that's how we sound when we speak English, but our brains can break it down and comprehend it... it's the same with writing. It's just symbols on a page/screen, yet we understand what they're saying.

Human brain's are amazing things, and I wish that I had more understanding on how they work.

 

[spookymooky]

I know what you mean, spookymonkey. And if I ever forget what I was gonna say I can always backtrack through my thoughts, and that reminds me of what I was gonna say... it's weird

I think our language is amazing. I can't speak another language. When I listen to the French listening tests in school it all sounds so fast and garbled, but that's how we sound when we speak English, but our brains can break it down and comprehend it... it's the same with writing. It's just symbols on a page/screen, yet we understand what they're saying.

Human brain's are amazing things, and I wish that I had more understanding on how they work.

I feel the same way with language, only writing moreso than text, especially on a computer: its a bunch of black pixels in a shape, that means a letter, that means a sound; a bunch of sounds make a word, which stands for a real action or event, or even something like an emotion; which eventually forms a coherent sentence. Wow.

Edit: "spookymonkey" I love it.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I always wonder what its like to think in another language...Then agian i reckon we actually think in "abstract" but our subconcious puts into the language we wish to speak. The subconcious is so powerful. For example, someone says something to you and you think of things to reply with...yet, you didnt put those words together or really think about what they meant. Your subconcious mind generated all these sentences that fit well with a reply, you simply choose which one to use...and sometimes we just spurt things out spontaniously without really thinking about it.

 

[spookymooky]

I always wonder what its like to think in another language...Then agian i reckon we actually think in "abstract" but our subconcious puts into the language we wish to speak. The subconcious is so powerful. For example, someone says something to you and you think of things to reply with...yet, you didnt put those words together or really think about what they meant. Your subconcious mind generated all these sentences that fit well with a reply, you simply choose which one to use...and sometimes we just spurt things out spontaniously without really thinking about it.

By the way, does anyone else "talk to themself" in a way when they think? Its never come up in conversation so i have no idea. Do you use real words, sentences, and so on, or do you think in "independant bubbles not restricted by language"? i think thats a good way to put it...

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Well, i dunno it depends on what im thinking about. If im thinking in the context of actually having a conversation about what im thinking, then i will generally think in English the way i would speak it. However, if im just thinking of...concepts, then its more abstract or how you said it "independant bubbles not restricted by language".

I would like to point out that im quite right brain dominant, meaning im more prone to lateral and creative thinking as well as being more practically minded. As opposed to being very analitical. That isnt to say im no good at maths, but my skills lie more with things like "art".

 

[spookymooky]

I consider myself to be pretty well centered. I have, through various doodles designed such things as pedal powered flying machines and submarines (I especially like gears and stuff); i also enjoy math sometimes, as well as language (not foreign though). All left-brained activities.
I also enjoy art, especially drama, and am more of a visual thinker.

 

[Sprafa]

About 2 languages: I am quite fliud in Portuguese, Spanish & English (and have knowledges on French) and I've recntly ( aproximatelly 1 year ago) started an experiment consisting on thinking & doing everything in my mind in English. When I talk to locals, I talk as if I was an English-thinker talking Portuguese.

The results seem to be minimal. I have increased my knowledge in the language, my vocabulary but I don't feel the difference, anywhere. But now, it's like I'm hooked in English. When I try to think in Portuguese, it feels unconfortable.

Taste - Taste is done by your conscience according to a few factors. Your tongue's palatial sensors send an impulse to your brain, and it chooses whether that appeals you. But not random what is detected. If it's full of carbon hidrats or colesterol, your brain makes it great b/c it's a power supply to your body. It doesn't matters if you're full, things with higher fat are always nicer. If rotten is detected for example, it tastes repugnantly. Same thing with smell. Chocolates & candy smell sweet & apealing, while rotten smells awful. This is also the reason why sex is pleazurous, and why you eat food and always feel better. It's simple because the mind identifies that as a benigne process, necessary for survival of the species, so it makes you feel good when you do it, rewarding you for ensuring that you'll survive. But now, in our era, we begun to overuse that kinda stuff for pleazure :naughty: .

The human mind is simply far too complex for our n00b self-awares.

 

[Shippi]

I feel the same way with language, only writing moreso than text, especially on a computer: its a bunch of black pixels in a shape, that means a letter, that means a sound; a bunch of sounds make a word, which stands for a real action or event, or even something like an emotion; which eventually forms a coherent sentence. Wow.

Edit: "spookymonkey" I love it.

lol, sorry spookymooky!


I find myself putting whatever I think into words. I can stop myself doing this and I still know what I was thinking. So, like if I think "Man, I am so bored." it can take me around 2 seconds to say that in my head, but if I stop putting into words it's instantaneous, and I still know what I thought... I can't really explain it. If I do this a lot it feels weird though, I don't know how to explain that either

Sometimes, when I'm thinking about stuff that's happened I see images of the event, and I see abstract shapes and colours too, which for some reason seem to have relevance. This doesn't happen very often, most of the time I just see the images. That's why it seems weird when it does happen

 

[crabcakes66]

Somone has been smoking to much chronic.....

 

[Moto]

Somone has been smoking to much chronic.....

Why do you say that? What is wrong with a few people taking some time to marvel at the complexities of human emotion, language, and thought?

 

[Direwolf]

I know I'm an extraordinarily visual thinker. Theres a visual component in my head for almost every thought I have, which is great when working on something and horrible for stuff like math.
As for language, I know that when I switch over to my mediocre spanish for a while I'll lose track of the fact that I'm not thinking in English, and have been known to blurt a few things out without properly switching languages. I can't imagine what its like for someone who's actually knows another language fluidly.

 

[crabcakes66]

Why do you say that? What is wrong with a few people taking some time to marvel at the complexities of human emotion, language, and thought?

There is nothing wrong with it. If you have ever smoked weed then you would know that it increases your awareness and ability to reflect on such things.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Somone has been smoking to much chronic.....

yo sucka, quit bitin' my style foo! (chizzeck da thrizzead lil' c). you 'bout to get run up on. and my grips got chrome fo' miles, son.

 

[Jackal hit]

if you want a REALLY wild experience ... like i had one time... well take all your thoughts about thinking, and all those introspective things, and then EXPERIENCE THEM... it's weird, and hard to describe but. to quote ...hmm tim leary(?) on the Third Eye track on Tool's Aenima album ... "today young men ** **** realize that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively - there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're imaginations of ourselves"

now, think about that, and then experience it. oooooh wild stuff.

heh go to a dutch coffee shop if you know what i mean lol j/k... (i did the asterisks above because i don't want this to be about drugs, but about experiences related to thought and reflection.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

someone needs to lay off the maryjane

summed up pretty good.. hehehehe

so what up Timmy? good to see ur back

 

[Sulkdodds]

I have a very visual brain. I think of everything in terms of colous and shapes. Seven is one hell of a purply-red number, don't you think?

Anyway. I think in abstract except my brain keeps making sarcastic comments in English. So I think in a sort of fluid, fast-switching hybrid of the two, using abstract (lets give it a name and define it as a language ) to formulate thoughts and English to sum them up or evaluate them. Strange.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

There is nothing wrong with it. If you have ever smoked weed then you would know that it increases your awareness and ability to reflect on such things.

Did you also know that while leaving the vocal centres of the brain untouched and amplifying the visual parts...it dumbs the rest?


Thats something interesting actually...Do you ever feel like you are talking to another person inside your head? That wounds weird, but i mean like you said...You brain making sarcastic comments. So you think something and your brain just says, "uh uh, not gonna work".

 

[Shippi]

Did you also know that while leaving the vocal centres of the brain untouched and amplifying the visual parts...it dumbs the rest?


Thats something interesting actually...Do you ever feel like you are talking to another person inside your head? That wounds weird, but i mean like you said...You brain making sarcastic comments. So you think something and your brain just says, "uh uh, not gonna work".

I do... kind of. Sometimes when I'm concentrating pretty hard on something, I unwillingly think something stupid, and I think to my self, "Oh, shut up, brain!"

 

[UnKnown X]

Sometimes when I hear some music, it starts playing in my head all day. Sometimes even all week. This happens especially with music I hate. I can try to think "BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP BLAH BLAH!!!", but when I do that, it's annoying too. Then the music gets all twisted and screwed up and loops irrelevant and stupid parts. I find this particularly annoying at night when I'm trying to sleep.

Also, when I think about lots of words containing the 'sh' or 'ñ' sounds I get thirsty. :s

 

[Sui]

there could be any number of senses simmilar to taste, sight, nerves etc. Other animals might have a 6th sense we cant even percive in our minds, let alone understand or guess at. Compared to others we may be incredibly infirior, maybe thinking is only the first stage- maybe cats, dogs and mice are all much more advanced organisms than us...

and about thinking, when i wonder how it works, i just give up. its impossible to concieve. But think about this- if it is possible for a lump of red meat, covered in skin, to run a GIGANTIC system of veins and blood and arteries, create antibodies to desieses and generally do things we dont know how the hell to do, then surely its possible for anything- for balls to fly and cats to talk.. think about it.

*edit* :O the matrix hasnt been mentioned yet!

 

[Maxi]

Well I haven't found any clipping problems or graphic glitches yet

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Wait a minute...Is that why my feet are stuck inside these funny cotton things?

 

[Bad^Hat]

My tummy hurts.

 

[lePobz]

In't milk brilliant!

 

[UnKnown X]

Argh! I hate this body system thing. It's amazing and it knows what to do, but the part of the brain we think with doesn't. :rolling:

Also, I think that hearing people talk uses a lot of brain 'ram' or whatever you'd call it. You can look at five things at the same time and still know what they are, but when two people talk at the same time you'll often get confused.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Unless you're a women and then its more like 5 people.

 

[UnKnown X]

Ah well, then it's just my friends who speak like crap...