Let me preface this by saying that White Widow is the strain that I've been searching for for so long as a mental stimulant. I was moved to type after casting a line into the water last night.
I focus on the concepts of people sometimes. How they (and most certainly myself ) are amalgams of disparate phenomena created inside of my head. Of course, in theory, the same thing is happening to other people at the same time (though instant moments differ from person to person), but I don't really know that for sure. Everyone else in the world could be a philosophical zombie, for all I know. I could be a philosophical zombie for all I know. Perhaps my "consciousness" is merely a nexus of all the neurological phenomena occuring "inside" of "my" head, while other people have metaphysical souls. Who knows? Perhaps everyone else is merely a fixture in my head, but they are, aren't they? Okay, I think I'm becoming incoherent, so I'll start over again. Obviously, you cannot open up someone's head and see an "image" projected somewhere: the image that their conscious mind sees from the signal sent by the eyes to the visual cortex. Their consciousness exists beyond their "form". And yet this form that you see is not the same form that they see. If their consciousness exists beyond their form, it must exist on another plane, as such does yours: the plane of "consciousness" or the plane of phenomena. So this other person's body that you see exists in your head, and their body exists inside their head. So arguably there is the actual material that this person's body is, but you don't know where that is (or what "where" really means, for that matter). You can put your hand out to touch them, but as your "body" touches theirs, a signal is sent from nerves at the skin to the neurons of your brain, and then there is where a big problem still lies. There is a gap in science that hasn't explained where the bridge between the phenomena of mind meets the noumena of the brain. And that's what I think about pretty often. At least, that's one of the more profound ideas/problems I have floating around in my head, wherever that is. Most religious people would say that their conscious form will exist beyond their death, yet I believe that it very well may be inseparably tied to my noumenal form, regardless of the existence of a God.
So science hasn't solved the gap completely, but isn't a brainwave just a visual manifestation of your entire conscious? Your consciousness (and subconsciousness) is a function of the entirety of the electrical activity of your brain, and a brainwave scan is just an incomplete picture of that wave. So this is just more evidence of phenomenon and noumenon being tied together, but it's still not proof. You cannot have proof of it without being able to transcend the gap. That's where the Matrix sequels went wrong. The Matrix opened up the door to that line of questioning, but the sequels failed to explore it. They just threw in some vague notions referring to random existing philosophies. So it still stands that what is providing you with your sense experiences isn't necessarily related to sense experience. You stare at a computer display with words and pictures, but they're produced by light emitting diodes, or liquid crystal or plasma displays, much like how your visual field is created by -illions of atoms (which are made up of -illions of quarks, etc) and the mediating photons and electrical fields, but your visual sense does not directly interact with those atoms, photons, and electrical fields. Your vision is synchronized by your brain's motor controls with your other senses to create the four dimensional world that you experience everyday. Four dimensions ultimately seems so arbitrary though. Four dimensions just means four directional parameters.
Time is a tricky thing to dicuss, because it is a concept we derive from the changes we note in three dimensional space. Okay, so because of momentum, everything flows "forward" in time, and we note the passage of time based on the changes we perceive in the three dimensional space "around us". If three dimensional space is a set of two dimensional planes, then four dimensional space time is merely a set of three dimensional spaces. Visually you can represent four dimensional space as a hypercube, but the concept is a set of multiple three dimensional spaces, connected by a fourth dimension. Sometimes people think of time completely wrong. They say, you can move back and forth through space at will, but you can't do so with time. They state that you can only move forward through time, which is true, in a manner of speaking, but then they don't consider that you cannot move back and forth through space at will. It's merely an illusion created by living on earth. Say I walk from my chair to my refrigerator and back. I just moved through the same space again and again at will, right? Of course not, as the earth beneath me is moving in orbit around the sun. When I walked from my chair to the fridge one time, the earth was in a certain position relative to the sun, planets, and the rest of the universe. When I walked back, it had moved. So maybe I could get a spaceship and go back to that first point, but the solar system has moved around the milky way galaxy, the galaxy has rocketed even farther away from all the other galaxies, etc, etc. So d'ya get it? You can only move forward in space, and you can only move forward through time. Momentum, people!
Edit: You can only move "forward" in space, and "forward" through time. Note the quotation marks on "forward". :)
Okay, I'm done pontificating for this "morning".
(I don't think I've ever used so many quotation marks in an entry.)