If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
Hollis FramptonTo my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.
Hollis FramptonA specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.
Hollis Frampton