Mini Aha

December 9th, 2006 Fred McVittie Posted in Consciousness, Creativity, Illumination |

Animations are constructed in which pictures, which begin as abstract mosaics, progressively resolve into recognisable images; faces, buildings, objects. The moment at which the image is recognised is accompanied by a feeling of heightened consciousness; a mini Aha! As the succession of animations, and the successions of Aha! continues, the time which the picture takes to resolve is reduced so that it becomes recognisable quicker and quicker. At a certain point there is no noticable period in which the image is unrecognisable, and at this point the Aha moment corresponds to normal waking consciousness.