No, this is not a metaphor for that crazy-out-of-control feeling of trying to keep track of ten things at once. It’s a theory that the brain is always on the edge of turbulence, in a state of “self-organised criticality,” which is one of the things that enables it to react quickly and assimilate new information. So when you sometimes have a random thought, it truly is random and not connected to the feelings you may have for your mother or the fight you had last night with your boyfriend or the movie you watched last weekend.
And yet we try to find the connection, don’t we? The idea of disconnection points frighteningly in the direction of madness. And there’s good reason for that: too much disconnection is mad. So then our ability to posit connections is what makes us sane, right? Not really, because the insane can posit connections just as readily, although they may not be based in what we consider to be reality.
Is all this making you dizzy? Watch the video and you’ll really feel some vertigo.
