Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that
goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
-Tennessee
Williams-
The human brain has over 100 billion
neurons that transmit thought, movement, memory, emotion, and perception
through a sequence of on/off firing from one cell to the next—essentially, a
string of 1s and 0s. No one has
yet understood exactly how this simple morse-code in the brain can allow feet
to dance in rhythm to music never heard before, create an image of a long-gone
grandmother when smelling baking bread, or bring tears to eyes when watching a
baby’s first step.
A
digital image exists, at its essence, as a string of 1s and 0s. The code of a single 10MB photograph
expressed in this way would occupy over 3000 pages. No one has yet figured out what makes that string of
numbers, that play of light and dark, that precise stopping of time, translate
into something more--something worth remembering.