Hank Johnson weighs in on the emails that I published over the last two days -- sharing his recollections of the...
Hank Johnson weighs in on the emails that I published over the last two days -- sharing his recollections of the conversation described by 'Amaziah Lachish,' as well as an interesting parable about the nature of truth and reality...
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/05/15/hank-johnson-the-nature-of-real/
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/05/15/hank-johnson-the-nature-of-real/
cabbage head?!
ReplyDeleteWell Yik Sheng Lee, brain plasticity is so powerful that I distrust the reality people perceive even without taking into account any exogenous influence.
ReplyDeleteAnd not only that, but the ability of the brain to "fill in the blanks" of incomplete events so they would fit your current mind frames is actually pretty annoying in sense of finding "the truth" about reality. We are not only constrained by our senses, but also misled by a brain that is actually trying to help us... And among all that, it is true what you say, we will never know if it has always been this way. Plasticity is an advantage, and, in most situations, the mechanisms I describe above help us deal with the world in a better, more efficient way but they also trick us into perceiving things that are not true.
Are you familiar with the "stolen radio" experiment?? It was famous in the 80's... There's a group of people in the subway and suddenly a man passes running holding a BOX then a girl screaming "give me back my radio" is seen chasing him.
Later they ask people what they saw and not only around 90% of them actually SAW the man holding A RADIO but also the majority agreed on the model of the radio, even though it was never mentioned. They claimed to have seen the man holding a back Sony radio (if I remember correctly), the one that was fashionable at the time. XP
There's your trustworthy brain for you ;)
And right, the bicameral mind has been totally disproven. But who knows, maybe it used to be like that and we'll never know. (Or maybe there is an alternative explanation to the phenomenon described that does not contradict what we know about the brain now =P)
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