Narz
keeping it real
A few weekends ago I was futzing around playing a game (Xplorers) online & this kid from down the street knocks on my door asking if I want to play ping-pong. I'd been online for about eight hours straight & was in a bit of a funk & not feeling super social but in the spirit of spiritedness & decided to take him up on it.
Don't know whether it was my mood & what but the shift was quite intense, bordering on surreal that day. I went from a still two dimensional world to one where I had to instantly gauge & react to a moving ball in three dimensions (made more interesting by a less than perfectly flat ping-pong table & a net that's a bit saggy in the middle). I must say I found it a quite pleasurable shift.
Wondering how focusing vision onto a 1-2 square foot flat object much of the day affects it is just the tip of the iceberg of course. It's also wonderworthy how the act of, say driving, and all the physiological aspects thereof affects the human animal.
Of course things like this will probably never get studied because they are a matter of pure curiosity with little to no profit in them.
Common sense dictates though that this, and dozens of other, "routine" activities are pretty far removed from the day to day physical, visual, auditory, olfactory life we evolved with. Not to say, in moderation it is particularly bad, it'd just be interesting to do lots of tests on people with various lifestyle habits (flexibility, coordination, mapping their brains to see the size of various regions connected to certain motor activities & even emotions & all sorts of other variables I cannot think of ATM). It would also be interesting to see how such a lifestyle affected people mentally, emotionally & philosophically.
I'd imagine the personal computer & Internet are high up there in terms of modern changes that have most affected our lives, biorhymes, perceptions, bodies & minds (along with automobiles, electric lighting, telephones & many other inventions that allow us to surpass natural limits & often focus a single sense & neglect all others [for example a telephone or a computer monitor]).
Kind of reminds me that experiment where they raised some kittens in environments where all the objects they interacted with had vertical lines & how it altered their perception for life. (sry, can't find a link to the experiment right now
, someone will though 
)
Anywayz, it's 2:47AM and I'm wondering how much more clearly I could articulate if I was on a 5:30AM-10PM schedule like I was back in Mexico in the summer of '99.
So, feel free to discuss the subject.
Don't know whether it was my mood & what but the shift was quite intense, bordering on surreal that day. I went from a still two dimensional world to one where I had to instantly gauge & react to a moving ball in three dimensions (made more interesting by a less than perfectly flat ping-pong table & a net that's a bit saggy in the middle). I must say I found it a quite pleasurable shift.
Wondering how focusing vision onto a 1-2 square foot flat object much of the day affects it is just the tip of the iceberg of course. It's also wonderworthy how the act of, say driving, and all the physiological aspects thereof affects the human animal.
Of course things like this will probably never get studied because they are a matter of pure curiosity with little to no profit in them.
Common sense dictates though that this, and dozens of other, "routine" activities are pretty far removed from the day to day physical, visual, auditory, olfactory life we evolved with. Not to say, in moderation it is particularly bad, it'd just be interesting to do lots of tests on people with various lifestyle habits (flexibility, coordination, mapping their brains to see the size of various regions connected to certain motor activities & even emotions & all sorts of other variables I cannot think of ATM). It would also be interesting to see how such a lifestyle affected people mentally, emotionally & philosophically.
I'd imagine the personal computer & Internet are high up there in terms of modern changes that have most affected our lives, biorhymes, perceptions, bodies & minds (along with automobiles, electric lighting, telephones & many other inventions that allow us to surpass natural limits & often focus a single sense & neglect all others [for example a telephone or a computer monitor]).
Kind of reminds me that experiment where they raised some kittens in environments where all the objects they interacted with had vertical lines & how it altered their perception for life. (sry, can't find a link to the experiment right now
, someone will though )Anywayz, it's 2:47AM and I'm wondering how much more clearly I could articulate if I was on a 5:30AM-10PM schedule like I was back in Mexico in the summer of '99.
So, feel free to discuss the subject.
). I already get a good amount of natural light everyday as I work outside most days. Which reminds me of another noteworthy issue on the subject of technology, culture shift & untended consequences.
