Features of perception: illusions of time and space

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

Perception is what we, as humans, understand this world and can actively interact with all its components, including subjects like ourselves. These facts were recently established by psychiatrists and philosophers, and soon received a very worthy refutation. Are you familiar with the concept of the illusion of time? Could it be that our understanding and perception of this world is nothing but delusion or deception? Let's get it right.

What is perception?

First of all, it is worth noting that we accept the world at the level of consciousness due to the organs of the very perception that are present both in our body and in the mind. Let's look at these categories separately:

• Simple forms of perception are sight, hearing, smell, touch, etc. known to everyone from biology lessons. It is important to note that several organs are involved in complex processing of most information at once. For example, when watching a movie, hearing and vision work at the same time, when in contact witha person also connects here the sense of smell, touch. This is how we interact with the world on a physical level.
• Complex forms represent such philosophical concepts as the perception of space, time and movement. Illusions of perception of these components of our world are an integral factor in understanding this issue. After all, each person feels the world in his own way, and we will never know what, relatively speaking, the eyes of our interlocutor see.

It is about the complex forms that do not even belong to philosophy, but to metaphysics, that we will now talk about.

Space

This is the main environment of our habitat, which consists of three dimensions. It is on the basis of this criterion that a person, relying on his physical properties and worldview, realizes where he is, in what position he is and what is around him. We identify ourselves in space through the vestibular apparatus. This is the main organ that transmits signals to the brain about everything that surrounds us. Eyes, ears and other parts of the body can only complement the sensations, but they will never create a complete picture.

It is logical to assume that if the vestibular apparatus, accustomed for centuries to "see" only three dimensions, would be replaced by a different organ, we would be able to perceive space in a different form. Therefore, we can assume that in our understanding it is an illusion.

Time

In order to determine at what time interval wewe are, and in general, how much the hands on the clock indicate at the moment, we were not given any organ. This concept is nothing but an invention of mankind. Hence the numerous statements about the fact that we are accompanied by the illusion of time. In reality, there is no such concept. However, in the genetic memory of a modern person there is a perception of time, which moves exclusively forward and is divided into past, present and future. It is necessary for he althy interaction between the individual and society, systematization of many processes, order and life in society.

Movement

When scientists took up the issue of the perception of movement, the illusion of time became even more fundamental, not only in philosophy, but also in science. Even Einstein proved that this concept is very subjective, directly depends on the speed of movement in space and, under certain circumstances, may disappear altogether. The simplest example is movement at the speed of light. At this point, time will cease to exist for an object that "flies" through space, everything will look static. But an outside observer will regard it as something that moves at an unrealistic speed, while the course of this process will just as quickly go forward.

The illusion of space-time is in some way a prisoner, into which a person falls of his own free will. We do not notice how the clock slows down as we move along the plane in a certain direction andaccelerates when we sit in one place. We can know it, understand it, and even try to accept it, but alas, we cannot reject this mirage. This is due to the fact that perception is within the framework of the human body, otherwise we will simply lose touch with the world we are used to.

When did time begin?

According to the official version, this phenomenon was born at the time of the big bang, that is, at the time when the Universe began to exist. Time appeared due to the fact that a huge space was formed, and various objects moved along it. They repelled from one point - the point of singularity - to others, different, scattered in different corners of the vast Universe, and never returned to their original positions. Therefore, time arose, which only went forward. The former positions of the celestial bodies are left behind, their current position is designated as the present, and further trajectories of movements are their future. But black holes and their points of no return, the collapsing centers of galaxies, as well as the very movement at the speed of light, became stumbling blocks in the way of this ideal scientific picture. These statements completely turned the perception of space and time.

Visual illusions

Besides science, psychologists have also studied the phantom nature of our understanding of the world. If we start from the space-time continuum and understand the course of the clock within its framework, then it turns out that the brain can notice and mark as moving only the object that is exactlymoves - that is, overcomes the distance, while spending a certain amount of the measurement resource. And here is the first stick in the wheel from psychologists - visual illusions. These pictures are said to have "inadequate physical properties" and are therefore misinterpreted by the eye. But the fact remains - they are static, and we see their movement. According to the brain, within the framework of such an image, objects move along certain trajectories, spending time on this process, and changing their position in space. But in reality this does not happen, which once again proves to us the illusion of time perception.

Good old cartoons

Before web artists began to please the world with animated images created using special programs, ordinary brush artists sat in their offices and drew numerous images of cartoon characters. The number of pictures reached billions, and each of them was a second in the finished film, with a new position of the bodies of the characters, facial expressions and the environment. Looking at the finished cartoon, we regarded the frames that have already been viewed as the past, and those that are to be seen as the future. What was on the screen at the moment was the only true present. But in practice, the pictures that were already in the past for us have not gone away - they remained in the studio. Those that, in our opinion, have not yet hit the frame, already exist, are in reserve. This means that the space-time continuum is already filled with all the past andupcoming events, they do not disappear and are not yet created. If we can get rid of the bonds of hours, days and years, then we will understand that time is just an illusion that shows us a far from complete picture of being.

String theory

Quantum physics is currently the main scientific pillar. With its help, we can argue that time is an obsessive illusion that is firmly entrenched in the minds of people. According to this scientific statement, each particle, be it an atom, a cell or a living being, such as an animal or a person, can simultaneously be in more than 11 spaces. Note that the term space-time continuum is not used here, but all because such a concept simply falls out of string theory. It does not fit into any formula. And this is quite understandable. A single particle cannot be in 11 (!!!) places at the same time in the same second. It is reasonable to assume that there is simply no time. It is due to our subjective perception of space and movement within it.

Hypnosis

Well, the last proof of the illusion of time is the state of hypnotic trance. Unlike string theory, here we are no longer talking about the physical splitting of one particle into several planes, but about the so-called mental or out-of-body travels in the resources of measurement. The most amazing thing about hypnosis is its ability to appeal to the deep innermost corners of our memory. In everyday life, many things remain inmind on a subconscious level, we do not focus our attention on them. For example, how many crows sat on the window when we were in math class in the 6th grade, what kind of people rode next to us in the subway three years ago, etc. But in a state of hypnosis, all this returns and becomes our new reality. Therefore, we can return our subconscious mind to the past or send it to the future, see these events and benefit from them.