In the recent months i have been doing a lot of reading, Within this researched i came across a book by Jeremy Narby called The Cosmic Serpent DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. In the book Narby despite his initial skepticism, found himself engaged in an increasingly obsessive personal quest which led him to the conclusion that ancient peoples, from the Aborigines to the Egyptians, have known for millennia about the Double helix structure - something conventional science only discovered in 1953. Most living organisms have the same sort of genetic material, DNA, in their cells. DNA contains two strands wrapped around each other in a helix, and these strands are held in place by four chemicals called bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T).
The figure below is taken from a Mesopotamian seal of c. 2200 B.C. and shows "the deity in human form, enthroned, with his caduceus emblem behind and a fire altar before." The symbol of this Serpent Lord was a double helix, similar with the representation of DNA.
myths and rites of these twin snakes frequently appear in ancient drawings in a remarkably consistent symbolic sense. Wherever nature is shown as inherently divine, the serpent is revered as symbolic of its divine life."
Below is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology.
How old is that book??? Anyways what i wanted to talk about is the human eye now i can't really explain it very well to normal people, but as much as you say we don't see objects, well in a sense that's true. The way our eyes work and the same is true for cameras, what we are seeing is light. This light passes through the lens (in fact there's an interesting phenomenon about the image that hits the lens it is reversed/up side down). After passing through the lens the light hits the retina, well its not the retina itself there are around 100million rod and cone cells within the retina that the light hits. These cells detect color, depth and movement, which intern send electrical signals to the brain for processing. But this is not just how the brain creates the image, all 5 sense's and memories are used to create the image. Also colors do not exist the only reason we see an objects color is, because it absorbs almost all of the light spectrum except certain colors. Let me explain, say we have a red cube, what is happening is the cube is absorbing all the colors except red (not quite infra red because our eyes cannot pick up infra red).
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How old is that book???
Anyways what i wanted to talk about is the human eye now i can't really explain it very well to normal people, but as much as you say we don't see objects, well in a sense that's true. The way our eyes work and the same is true for cameras, what we are seeing is light. This light passes through the lens (in fact there's an interesting phenomenon about the image that hits the lens it is reversed/up side down). After passing through the lens the light hits the retina, well its not the retina itself there are around 100million rod and cone cells within the retina that the light hits. These cells detect color, depth and movement, which intern send electrical signals to the brain for processing. But this is not just how the brain creates the image, all 5 sense's and memories are used to create the image. Also colors do not exist the only reason we see an objects color is, because it absorbs almost all of the light spectrum except certain colors. Let me explain, say we have a red cube, what is happening is the cube is absorbing all the colors except red (not quite infra red because our eyes cannot pick up infra red).
Spectrum* - Color wave lengths.
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