So...the smart thing to do at this point would be to go to sleep, but these moments come unexpectedly and leave just as quickly. I figured that I would jot down whatever came to mind at this moment...
Today, I was hanging out with a friend of mine, and for reasons of privacy, I won't really reveal what we did or who this was. There is no real need for the specifics of the events; all that's needed is that there are particular events.
A similar event occurred to me this very evening. While they are different in a slight sense, there is enough there to consider them related. It is quite peculiar that my friend and I share some common attributes; we are rather similar. This made me wonder if perhaps there is some sort of a time delay between my friend and I.
Similarly, we spoke of how I had a dream which made an indirect reference to the show, Quantum Leap. Specifically, I awoke realizing that I had been someone else for a while and missed my opportunity to prevent someone from being killed. Later that day, when I went to church on nothing more than gut instinct, the sermon also made reference to the show Quantum Leap. It is an odd point to realize the System that is generally not mentioned and to see how it partially works. Obviously, there aren't sufficient events to assume a pattern at this point, but one is definitely present...and more data is needed.
This brings up interesting possibilities though. Perhaps we are nothing more than time shifted versions of each other. How phase and frequency relates to this would be somewhat curious, but I could see someone's personality mapped out in a "signal" fashion, i.e. as a grouping of various period functions. The interesting explanatory power is that groupings of these periods could account for seasonal depression, okay blue days, manic-depressiveness among other things. Naturally, it is probably premature to assume that these sorts of disorders have any sort of regular period, but given sufficient time, there most certainly could be a set of periodic functions that constitute someone's emotional patterns. If we could consider key emotional events, e.g. bipolar switches, severe depressive episodes, panic attacks, as signal artifacts, there would be some definable period between these events and some mathematical equation that perfectly approximates the mood.
Now, this equation might be incredibly complex and difficult to determine. Perhaps, so difficult that modern day computing would be useless and highly inefficient requiring the person's entire life-span and more to determine the equation due in part to computational time and the size of the required data set. Accomplishing a task like this though would probably enable large leaps and bounds in psychological study and treatment.
It seems incredibly interesting to explain life in terms of periodic signals. Your brain and reality seems nothing more than these signals, these electronic signals decoded by your brain. Perhaps, with "wave particle duality" (a fancy term that I do not fully understand nor claim to), we could consider all of individual particles as possessing a combination of frequency components. While offering a further step in understanding the reality that seems to occur, the big questions are pushed further back and transformed. What is the substance that is vibrating? Why does it vibrate? Where did all of this motion come from?
Inertia seems like it could be explained quite thoroughly as an impulse response. But what is the nature of a force that moves a box, for example? Envision a box moving through time. This should not be too terribly difficult for those with an imagination, but if necessary staring a box should suffice. That box is moving through time, and there are many frequencies involved--
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