I recently noticed something on my drive home from dropping the girls off at school, which reminded me of a section in Jordan B Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, about the fact that we are actually blind, at least 90% so.
His discussing mentions it in the context of the available spectrum of light, compared to the tiny portion of that spectrum which we can actually see, which our brains can process. (I wonder if our eyes, optic nerves and brain can "see" the whole spectrum, but as it would make life much harder and the world a very different place to navigate, maybe the volume has just been turned down on the additional spectrum.)
Another really good example of this is the subject of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
So, what did I see this week, which I know for a fact has been there for way longer than the 12 years I've been living where I do. I have driven past this 1000s of times, not seeing it. A room on the side of the chimney of a house.
Imagine a tall chimney stack on a large house. Now double the width of the chimney stack, and in the new half, add a half-moon window. I imagine if you were to stand in this little room, and there would only be room for one person, you would get an amazing 270-degree view of your surroundings. What a fun thing to have in your house. I wonder if the owners ever just go up there to watch the birds from a tree-line height.
More importantly, what else have I been blind to? What have you?
His discussing mentions it in the context of the available spectrum of light, compared to the tiny portion of that spectrum which we can actually see, which our brains can process. (I wonder if our eyes, optic nerves and brain can "see" the whole spectrum, but as it would make life much harder and the world a very different place to navigate, maybe the volume has just been turned down on the additional spectrum.)
Another really good example of this is the subject of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
So, what did I see this week, which I know for a fact has been there for way longer than the 12 years I've been living where I do. I have driven past this 1000s of times, not seeing it. A room on the side of the chimney of a house.
Imagine a tall chimney stack on a large house. Now double the width of the chimney stack, and in the new half, add a half-moon window. I imagine if you were to stand in this little room, and there would only be room for one person, you would get an amazing 270-degree view of your surroundings. What a fun thing to have in your house. I wonder if the owners ever just go up there to watch the birds from a tree-line height.
More importantly, what else have I been blind to? What have you?