Sunday, January 22, 2023

Reality vs Memory

Setting forth the facts and possibilities... reality, facts, truth, what science can explain,  and what science can not explain. Add to this perception and beliefs, and you have quite the mix, and the quandary of making sense of it all. 

Reality is greatly influenced by perception. 
Facts is merely what can be proven.
Thuth considers reality and facts influenced by beliefs.
Science deals with facts that can be proven, rejects everything else.  
Science its self is subjective... First the are the vast unknowns... And there is a multitude of unknowns that can not be proven... It's doesn't mean that they don't exist... It's just that science is yet to prove them... Therefore it can not be factual. Quite the narrow view in the entire scheme of reality... Thus leading to theories. Beliefs of facts yet to be proven. Then there's the ever present misconception that science and facts are an absolute. Given that science has changed what was once considered facts upon having new information that changes everything.  So clearly were can not totally rely on science for the absolute truth based on limited facts... And what remains undiscovered and yet unknown. 

So where is all this going?  Today there is the theory concerning genetic memory. Human DNA and the information contained therein is still mostly unknown by science.  Who's to say that memories of experiences from ancestors can not be encoded in our DNA. Especially strong emotional events involving tragedy or hardships. Fears or phobias... premonitions and that Deja Vu feeling of going someplace for the first time,  yet feeling you have been there before... And knowing what is around the corner before you go there.  Science rejects all that it can not prove... Perhaps like many things in the past,  science just hasn't evolved or discovered through research information to change theory into fact. Needless to say,  there is something to the theory of genetic memory. 

 

But I tend to over state my thoughts to encourage the open mind that questions everything. What science has proved,  and what it rejects. 

Personal experience... Why are people drawn to something as if it is an all consuming passion that simply will not fade over time?  An historic event that was years before your time... Yet you are uncontrolably drawn to it... All your life. It can not be explained... But it is real whether science can explain it or not.

One of those things for me is the Titanic. Clearly itv was before my time.  But why is there such a strong emotional connection?  A feeling of deja vu when I look at the pictures that seem all to familiar. Why is it familiar and yet disturbing? Kinda reminds me of the characters in Close Encounters of a third kind that were uncontrollably inexplicably drawn to Devil's Tower. An obsession then in some ways is a bit unsettling and fringes your emotions into a different reality.  Hope that makes sense.  Perhaps science will someday change rejection, and move theory into fact. 

Anyway... Titanic, the ship of Dreams... And the tragedy. 


Why do things feel so familiar? 
It's like walking into another place, another time.



The tragedy...