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One way to convert sensory panpsychism to neuroscience might be that the way your cortex in your forehead is involved in thinking mimics the top half of the eye which in turn is inverted in the eye’s lens to represent ground level which makes a small bit of spatial sense in how we assess ourself relative to the trees above us.
Likewise the way our sense of touch is in the centre of our brain mimics the centre of gravity of our own skull in a way that in turn mimics how our spine tries to balance our centre of gravity.
At the beginning it felt like “In the Tall Grass” was a parody of an open timelike curve only for there to be karma much like how an irrational dream making sense when collided against another irrational dream. The idea of the tall grass appears surreal if only because there are few huge ranches in Ireland! The manner of the grass, rock, bird and insect being enlivened mimics panpsychism as if you are what you eat such that an alternative version of evolution is that we are descended from the food of our ancestors. That way we are in some respects descended from the trees our evolutionary ape ancestors climbed on and ate leaves from. The giant rock being used as a source of shamanic knowledge mimics the secret benefits of drinking mineral water. The time travelling sequence appears inverted in terms of adrenaline such that the first time travel evokes the most curiosity in the sense of how this was going to be explained later in the film or whether it’d be open-ended. The manner in which the field acts like a maze can also be inverted as if it’s the rest of the world that’s disappeared rather than the field getting bigger. The time travelling totem (spoiler) of the cousin’s necklace from San Diego used to persuade the cloned brother and sister not to enter the field at the end of the movie mimics the bootstrap paradox of sending information back in time as if it becomes increasingly indirect with each time travel iteration such that there’s always a risk of error where you’d have to rely on a small bit of blind faith. This mimics an entropy-defying message where the scenes of killing and betrayal between alternate temporal versions of the same characters becomes too chaotic towards the end in a way that allows us to downplay it and focus on the bigger picture of the shared meadow visual motif in each character. It’s as if trees take the priority where it’s our own life that abbreviated to a mere few years in terms of tree years as if time travel weren’t such a big deal compared to much longer lifespan of certain trees!
In the Tall Grass | Official Trailer | Netflix
One reason our vision might be processed at the back of the brain in the occipital lobe might be to synchronise our vision with our motor reflexes in the cerebellum and brain stem. That way if an arm reflex from the spine was deterministic then it’d be initiated pre-emptively in the nerves just before our eyes could see the arm move but just on time for our occipital lobe to process it for simultaneous thought-hand motion.
A more thorough version of free won’t might be to close your eyelids for a few seconds longer than a wink or a blink much like a yawn in order to stall an athletic manoeuvre like throwing a ball. This mimics the shut-eye of sleep seeing as you’d be less efficient if you can’t see what you’re doing. So if sleep is more natural than waking life then your eyelids would be naturally closed such that active energy is required to open your eyes rather than to close your eyes. The vestibulo-ocular reflex of how our head stabilises our eyes during head motion might be a metaphor for how other body movements are synchronised with the delayed processing of the visual cortex compared to the eyes.