Free Fall Experiment – Time Perception

Perceiving Touch And Your Self Outside Of Your Body

When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your “self” is located in the same place as your body. Neuroscientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, investigated the relationship between bodily self-consciousness and the way touch stimuli are spatially represented in humans. They found that sensations of touch can be felt and mislocalised towards where a “virtual” body is seen. These findings will provide new avenues for the animation of virtual worlds and machines.

By Science Daily

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David Meyer and Tendzin Choegyal: Can computers have consciousness?

Many people are questioning today what consciousness really is. How will this concept be defined? Watch this interesting video that highlights some of the issues:

Virtual reality affects perception

The human psyche is now, more than ever, affected by the abstract environment that we create for ourselves through virtual realities and technology.

James Blascovich, co-director of the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke Friday about the market of virtual reality.

He is a guest speaker of the Institute for Prospective Cognition.

“Our test was to define consciousness,” Blascovich said.

Virtual reality is a product of consciousness, according to Blascovich. For most of us, the Earth is our grounded reality and screens and games are our virtual reality.

By Alyssa Siegele (Daily Vidette)

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Your Perception IS Your Reality

Take a minute to scan your surroundings. Are you in a familiar place or somewhere new? Stop reading this, and just look around you. Pick out an object, maybe something you hadn’t noticed before, and focus your attention on it. If you really focus, it’ll get brighter and more “real” than it was when it was just an unnoticed piece of the background noise of your life. Now, try to view your surroundings from the point of the object. Some people can do this with no effort, and for others, it takes some concentration. Depending on how adept you are at focusing your concentration, you may notice a slight shift in your perception – a weird jump in realty, where you are suddenly viewing the world from a different perspective.

By Tony D. Clark (Stepcase Lifehack)

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Don’t believe your eyes

We’re all so used to two-dimensional drawings of solids, we don’t give them a second glance. But if the artist bends the rules, the result is a boggling double-take.

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Blurring the Boundary Between Perception and Memory

Perception is mathematically impossible.

This might seem like a bold statement—after all, you are perceiving these letters right now—but it’s nonetheless true. Imagine a black-and-white line drawing of a cube on a sheet of paper. Although this drawing looks to us like a picture of a cube, there are actually an infinity of other three-dimensional figures that could have produced the same set of lines when collapsed on the page.

By Timothy Brady and Adena Schachner (Scientific American)

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Two dimensions of mind perception

Scientists want to figure out how individuals can tell whether someone or something else has a mental life. Controversial studies have addressed whether chimpanzees and children with autism are capable of making such an inference about others.

However, investigators shouldn’t assume that organisms perceive another’s mind as a single entity, assert psychologist Heather M. Gray of Harvard University and her colleagues. Instead, people attribute to others two distinct dimensions of mental activity, Gray’s team reports in the Feb. 2 Science.

By Science News (Bnet)

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Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of Mind, Harvard Study Suggests

Through an online survey of more than 2,000 people, psychologists at Harvard University have found that we perceive the minds of others along two distinct dimensions: agency, an individual’s ability for self-control, morality and planning; and experience, the capacity to feel sensations such as hunger, fear and pain.

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All in the mind’s eye

Has anyone ever let their imagination run away with them? For example, we recently had a problem with moths in our house, and for a while afterwards, I was convinced I could see moths everywhere. Luckily, I’m not going mad, as researchers from Vanderbilt University in the US have now proved that what you see with your ‘mind’s eye’ might have a direct impact on what you see back in reality. This is the first study to show that imagining something changes your vision both while you are imagining it and afterwards.

By The Naked Scientists

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The Quantum Apocalypse

The Quantum Apocalypse Video

Lifting of the veil, to uncover the true nature of one’s self, to penetrate the surface of reality, the disclosure of hidden information, escaping the traps of lingusitic contructs, the evolution of consciousness, awakening of perception to the mysteries which lie beyond the ordinary range of human knowledge.

Perception – The reality beyond matter

An interesting video and study on the perception of reality.

Life’s Signpost

Got Hope?

A lady at work gave me a book about how Spirit can communicate with us as individuals. It opened a new awareness for me as a person in reading this book. It is a book I normally would not have picked up. It gave a psychics view of her life and how Spirit was always trying to get our attention through the smallest things in life.

D. Scott Arant (Authorsden)

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Do You Ever Wonder Why?

Why we are here? How we got here? By we, I mean the entire population. Nine planets in the solar system, right? We just happen to live on the only one that inhabited by human life forms?

By Kim Buck (Triond)

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