Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Color, Sound, and other Fun Infinites.

This post is more or less just me jotting down ordered thoughts, sorry about it not being in a nice 'bloggy' format.

There are multiple sizes of infinity, infinite sizes of infinity if you would.
Our brain uses two techniques to interpret these infinities. The first would be called 1. This is the edge of infinity, it is our brain (from what I have researched it is the left brain that does this) segmenting infinite into groups we can comprehend and use.
Example 1: Color

We have the group of infinity (from the electromagnetic spectrum infinity) called visible light. Light then is an infinity of frequencies between infrared and ultra violet that we can see. We then separate the visible light that we can see into groups called colors. Within color is a infinite set of shades or hues that we assign names.

EMS->Visible Light->Blue->Light Blue

That would go on forever so long as we could define the differences in infinities that we see.

The same thing can be done with Sound. Lets start with the group 'Sounds we can hear'.

Sounds we can hear->C->Cm->Cm7

For me the easiest way to imagine this is with a tree. The base of the tree being your starting infinity (Color, Sound, Language, Music). Then the new infinities in it (Blue, C, English, Rock) become branches, each branch has its own branches (Light Blue, Cm, Nouns, Grunge), which has its own infinities (Baby Blue, Cm7, Proper Nouns, Nirvana).

We define infinities as we see fit.

Each infinity could be considered a scope or context. For example, we didn't need a definition for say... Grunge, until we need a way to group different types of Rock. As we look deeper into an infinity we will find more infinities.

Our brain is constantly looking at the world around us and grouping it in either "Same" or "Different" as a way of effectively managing what we interact with. A fun exercise that you can do is to take and look at the things around you and see how you can group different objects together in your head. For my room I could do Clothing, Clothing I'm Wearing, Clothing on my feet. I could also do; Games, games on cartridge, NES cartridges, Nintendo authorized NES cartridges. The list literally goes on and on forever.

This method of infinite groups can be applied to ANYTHING because we are constantly analyzing deeper and deeper the world around us, and we need ways to define the things we observe.

That's all I can think of for now, just remember. You are an individual, and you are the universe.


1 comment:

  1. Now you're thinking like an object oriented programmer.

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