mindcycle

From early childhood on, life bears riddles, miracles and secretes — some of which only wait to be discovered. An everlasting irresistible urge drives us to ask questions about them and explore possible solutions. Following a hidden path, we collect various clues and try to piece them together.

Sometimes, if not always, the puzzle remains essentially incomplete. People are kept from sleep thinking through a particular question again and again. Great figures of history as well as contemporary researchers have devoted their entire lives to a single such question.

Here is what keeps coming to my mind more and more often: How does the world get into our heads? Isn’t is fascinating that you can close your eyes and still see? You can see even things you could never see were your eyes open! Admittedly, this is only the cherry on the ice cream. We have a clear image or sense of our being there, of the outside world, maybe of space, … even though we have never been given a single proof for any of it.

How does this come about? What makes it happen? One might reply it’s all just neuronal fireworks. But then the same question arises at a lower level: why is that there? How does it make me, for instance, type these questions? And how does it relate to whatever might be “out there”?

What do you think? What gives rise to world inside your head?