Butterfly

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“Once upon a time, I, Chung Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my facies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awoke, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.” - Chung Tzu

I had been in study of the brain, how our brains work - at least as far as current scientific studies would indicate so that this ancient story by Chung Tzu caused me to pause and consider the exterior world vs. our interior or inner world. That made me think of thinks like the yang-yin, the Tao and the I Ching, all ancient classics studied by those who created karate and martial arts. 

In the dichotomy of yin-yang where complementary opposites blend, flow and separate without losing the connection that makes it a whole one thing is seen clearly in the study of the brains unique way of perceiving our world, i.e., by our sensory input of the real world or exterior world to our brains inner or interior world. It can actually come to the theorists question of which came first, the egg or the chicken. 

Why, because our inner world is programmed from the input from our outer world, reality, creating all sorts of zombie like sub-routines that we then use to compare to the outer world in order to create our inner world. The process becomes dominated by our inner world yet that same inner world does change, adjust and update its coding so that the comparisons become closer in matching so that the inner world refrains from filling in gaps and voids, placing that process at a minimum. 

When we sleep, our brains reset toward a type of inner world that becomes literally our entire world, while we sleep. Our brains will assume that the dreams are reality and yet when we wake our waking inner world begins to question the reality of the dream, ergo why we label them, “Dreams.” Of all the studies of the brain the dreams are still the most unique and unknown processes of our brain functions. We still assume, hypothize and theorize about what they are, why we have them and the meaning of them - at least as to what our inner worlds remember upon waking.

It really does relate a lot as to why we all got mesmerized by the movie trio of the Matrix series. It really struck home and speaks to a dramatized way of how the brain actually works. We really do live in a matrix called the brain that literally creates our world from the signals picked up by our sensory organs and thus translated by our inner world to make a realistic external world. 

It comes down to how much effort you spend aware and focused on the sensory input whereby you update your inner world sub-routines reducing the chasm between the two in creating reality from the signals - you can’t stop the signals Mal. In short, you let them in with a focus on correction, update and change so that your sub-routines become reality comparing realities sensory input to see, hear, and feel reality. 

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