Read Head
We can only live in the now. That now might be thinking about the future or the past, but it is still now. We can’t get away from this.
We soak in all of this information on a constant basis and need to either analyze or re-analyze what’s been processed. We can only do this in the present.
So what affects our experience of now?
The parallel I can think of is the read head on a disk. It’s usually the limiting factor in getting in information. There are those who are naturally talented and can process a lot in parallel. Their read head much larger than ours.
It is also possible to improve our ability to process now. Mindfulness can filter out other information sources so we can process more of what we want, rather than noise. Lack and sleep and alcohol limit the ability to process now.
When we’re looking to the future of mind technologies or mindfulness techniques, the ability to improve the read head of now will be one of the most important breakthroughs we reach.
