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A basic
principal: the constancy of the stimulus brings to the loss of consciousness of it.
For example: if while watching television or a
view, listening to music, or thinking about our business, somebody puts a coin on our hand or wherever they
want, we become immediately aware of it. But if we stop and
don't move when the coin is placed, eventually we will forget about it. We lose consciousness of the presence of the
coin. If we take it away or just move it, we again become aware of
it, that means, we have the consciousness of the
change, while in stasis, after a while the coin is
forgotten.
There's a simple explanation for
this. Our senses are continuously hit by stimuli, by spurs of change and our system is ready to absorb
them, in order to resettle itself. Just remember what we began talking
about. From this point of view, stasis isn't
meaningful, less than change anyway, so it is put
aside, filed, until it won't need to be recalled for another
reason. This principal has a practical importance, bigger than we can ever
imagine. Some examples:
- often we understand the value of things once we've lost
them,
or
- we become excited with something new, but after a while that we have something, we take it for
granted.
Obviously, we're referring to
things, people, situations, and moods, but how many times
we've followed this same procedure and made mistakes because we
couldn't understand what would of happened next? The world reacts to our consciousness and our
non-consciousness, and very often we don't understand other
people's reactions. Why, where do they come from, and, most of
all, have we contributed to them.
In any case, let's remember
we're the ones who'll pay the price in the end.
Maybe, it's better to wake up to the what is happening around
us, in order to avoid what we don't appreciate, but also to prepare ourselves to what will happen
next.
Marco Dal Negro |