Everyday I see people who look familiar, and almost I always I can place who I think they look like. Is that Phil? Wow, that really looks like Phil. And her by the stairs – that looks just like Lauren! This was happening so often that I really started thinking about it…
Our brain is just a complicated system of relationships, right? Our memory is based on associations to prior experiences. “Yellow” is linked to bananas, sun dresses, starbursts, bees, etc. Exponentially more complex, but you know what I mean. I think that when I moved here my brain was trying to use these relationships on a huge group of new inputs…all these new people had to be integrated into the memory system so I started subconsciously making these associations (he looks like Phil, she looks like Lauren). But I think that if I had known this new Phil or new Lauren in Denver, I would never say they looked like my old friends. Pretty deep stuff, I know. Sorry. This is what I was thinking about one day on the subway ride to Grand Central. And that got me thinking…..
What would it sound like if you could turn on the sound to all these thoughts in this train car? No one talks (more on this in a later post). So what if you could hear what everyone was thinking about? It would be really loud! And what if you could do it for all subway cars? I cannot get my head around all the countless things that are thought even in just five minutes on the subway system of New York.
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