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Where is Here?
by
Joe Kelley
Each human brain occupies some space, in a physical sense. Life occupies the same space in a form that we identify and measure with sensory perception and thought. We are here. We are here now. Humans perceive the space around the brain from the space occupied by the brain, through the eyes, the ears, and all the physical measuring apparatus. We are, we think. We know we are alive, we perceive life inside our space. Think and know. Where am I? I know I am right here. Where is here?
At 50 years alive I’ve worked on this question with some success and I am now seeking some help in finding answers. My theory includes an ability to know more than I recognize at the present moment. In other words: my time here in this life has taught me to be less confident in my ability to know everything all at once, where once, when younger, my confidence was higher. Here is where my thoughts are now focused so as to bridge the gap between what I know, now, and what I recognize right now; where is me? So, with your help, I am going to experiment and by experimentation my theory intends to build a bridge between what I know and what I recognize knowing as you, hopefully, do the same experiment. The idea is to find where here is, or where I am; where is the “me” being me. Where are you being you too?
I am here. You are there. You are not where I am. I am not where you are. That is now. When you read this, I think, you will be there and I will not be there, however we will be linked by these words. Bear with me please. From here I see blank spaces where letters appear and form words. From there you see words forming sentences. Where I, not you, see blank spaces; you, not I, see the spaces filled in with words. We both can ask ourselves: “where is this going?” I am asking, please, where did this come from? It is easier to read, to be subject to the words. Work is involved in finding where the words come from; where is the origin?
In a physical sense the blank spaces after the words already written come from a computer screen. On your end the words come from an ink image imprinted upon a paper page. This is work, this is thinking. This is the work done to find where is here. The focus, with your help, is meant to screen out all other thoughts, all other perceptions, all other knowledge and see the next letter appearing in the blank space and then look back to find where that next letter came from to find where is here. Here is where I am. On your end the next letter is seen by you where you are.
You may not be accustomed to this type of work. I can’t know. The idea is to borrow your brain from those people now taxing your brain, to borrow your brain, use your brain, and employ your brain and think of something very specific, very focused, looking exactly for something and looking for nothing but one thing – the origin of thought. The next letter, it may be an “i”, and it may be a “u”, is not here yet. When it arrives, the idea is, to see where it came from. It does not exist yet. When it gets here, look back and see where it came from. This is work. Use your brain to find where it came from. Focus on the next letter, not the present letter, and not the past letter. The next letter, not yet here, where will it come from? Perhaps this work is impossible to do, and to help prove if it can be done focus on the period at the end of this sentence to see if you can look back into where that period came from.
I can imagine being you answering my question to you. The period came from a printing operation. The period came from a work order, from the editor, from me, from my finger pushing down on a key on a keypad, from my nerves, from my brain and then my ability to find the origin ends. I fail to know where here is. Where are your thoughts now? They are not in my brain for sure. Are you working this angle of view? I am. Who or what is commanding the thing or the stuff that decides which letter happens next? There is blank space now, in front of me. There will be another letter soon. Who decides, what decides, and where does the next letter come from – exactly?
You do not decide. You are the reader now. I decide. I am the writer now. When you write, you decide. I can help you look in this way. You may not want to do this work. I think that this work is vital in becoming a human being. If this work is not done, in my opinion, the human mind becomes a vessel used by other human beings. I wrote that sentence. You did not write that sentence. Think about it. Where are you? Where is here? If you don’t do the work you may find yourself in a place and time where other people suck the life out of you. Perhaps this can only serve as an example. If this isn’t good enough to read, then think, write, do for yourself because no one else can. I know that much to be true and provable. I am not where you are despite the bridge connecting us. The being that is me is connected to physical space, to a brain, and that brain, where I am, is connected to thoughts or the stuff where thoughts hover, exist, swim, float, and pass through “I” and “me”. The bridge I send to you are letters, words, sentences, and things plucked from the pool of thoughts flowing from me to you and now those things are hovering around near you where you are for you to ingest, process, perceive, see, use, reject, judge, misunderstand, or consume?
Someone or some thing must command the process of thought selection to favor some stuff and reject other stuff from the pool of data swimming around near the origin or near the node; near where I am, here, or where you are, there. That is were here is. That is the origin. Here is the one thing that makes you and makes me unique. You have the power to think things that I have no power over. I think. Then again I’ve often been very wrong.