Wednesday, March 17, 2004

I was just thinking tonight as I took out my contacts, and meticulously placed the right contact in the right contact tray, and the left in the left contact tray, despite the fact that they are both the same prescription, how proud I was of myself for developing the muscle memory that that happens almost automatically, in case someday one eye is stronger than the other and the contacts do differ. Then I wondered if the extra memory required to store that routine was worth it for the small risk that I'd have different contacts, or that it wouldn't be something that I could adjust to automatically, or the percentage chance that I would put the wrong contact in the wrong eye, or the time and hassle required if I did put the wrong contact in the wrong eye. It may also be true that storing that routine in assembly language, my cortex not even having to send a command to my muscles,  makes it a much smaller piece of code than it would be if it were concious. It's too late now to reverse the training - that would involve some significant rewriting that would not be worth the effort. This also makes me think, right now, about breath prayer, and mantras, and how that vibrational frequency becomes encoded eventually, woven into the very fabric of breathing. 11:56:34 PM