our senses translate the surrounding reality to us into a Morse code language of action and rest. Action comes when the neuron fires its spike, and rest comes as the cell is regenerating and readying itself for the next firing. Out of this action-and-rest code our brain constructs for us, for example, the form of a rose, its texture, its color and smell—in other words, its “rosiness.” Or it will construct for us a faint image of distant galaxies coming in through the eyepiece of a telescope.
