Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Spatial consciousness

I have been entertaining a notion in the background of my mind and I have been procrastinating to take the step and jot it down. Let me take a new way of writing in which I will present an example then follow with an explanation. When you immerse yourself in a paper whether it is one of academic nature or something that is amusing you, it might be a book not a paper, and you find yourself engaged with the writing for a long period of time. If something comes in your way and you are urged to move from that place and go and do something else, you might be feeling out of place a bit. If you get back to your place after a short while, you will feel that you regained yourself fully and you are back to who originally you were. You should be experiencing this feeling unless there are exceptions. I came out with a fancy term which is “spatial consciousness”. I define this term as the consciousness that is formed in a place and as you leave the place it might hang with you for some time, as it is trying to drive you back, and at the same time, it might give you some feeling of discomfort, as it needs some active will to shift your focus to something else. When you get back to the place you formed it, you feel fuller and you can reap more benefits from the thing you were engaged with.



I think that my words can get along with some neurological findings since neurons that fire together are wired together. When you get engaged with something in a certain place, the whole neuronal firing will form a certain neural circuitry which will be reactivated once you get back to the same place due to facilitation. If the happening was one that also released a certain level of dopamine then the consolidation might even be stronger. 

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