Conditioning and Distraction: Why we see and believe what we want to | |
Starless (redux)
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† a wanderer
(OP) User ID: 233892 United States 05/22/2007 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course the jig is up, from the original post - but try this experiment on your friends. [link to www.metafilter.com] I would expect internet savvy individuals will rank far higher in this experiment than your average off-the-street participant. Interesting nonetheless. peace, † Dreaming Days are Through |
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Campbell Randt
User ID: 241056 United Arab Emirates 05/23/2007 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Observational Blindness - Quoting: † a wandererIn reading Dean Radin's recent book Entangled Minds, I found it interesting he mentioned early on the simple experiment conducted and developed by Daniel Simons, psychologist at University of Illinois. The following is from Entangled Minds Simons' experiment consists of a twenty-five second video clip of six people playing a basketball game. Three are dressed in white T-shirts and three in black T-shirts. The white team is passing a basketball amongst themselves, and the black team is doing likewise. During the game, a person dressed in a black gorilla suit calmly walks into the middle of the game, beats its chest, and then walks off. The gorilla is not understated or camouflaged - it's blatantly obvious. And yet the majority of people viewing this clip do not see the gorilla provided that they're given a very simple instruction: count the number of basketball tosses between the members wearing white T-shirts. This minor deflection of attention is sufficient to cause complete blindness to something as obvious as a gorilla. The power of deflecting attention is well known to stage magicians, who specialize in creating such illusions. If we can so easily overlook a gorilla right in front of us, what else might we be missing? When the National Science Foundation bemoans the public's belief in topics it doesn't happen to believe in, who is being blind. In Simon's completed experiment, which involved two videos ( the alternate with a woman holding an open umbrella over her head walking amidst the two teams of players ) and differing task levels, gradating from easy to hard, only 54% percent of the observers noticed the unexpected event and a remarkable 46% never saw a thing while attending their observational task. His full paper is available here: [link to www.wjh.harvard.edu] Viscog.com offers an instructional DVD with the videos mentioned, along with other studies and experiments at their website: [link to www.viscog.com] This is the challenge for humans today, we must test and try ourselves every day. Are we the roughly 50% of those distracted or conditioned by government, the media, a religion, cult or our own family and friends and environment and upbringing to believe a certain thing and ignore what may be plainly in front of our own eyes Or are we the other 50% willing to think outside the box of distraction and conditioning? It doesn't matter if it's 9/11 coverups, ceiling fan UFO photos, global warming, or national security - Who are we, really - are we really our own person, using our own minds and hearts to discern 'What Is Going On' around us? Or are we consigned to believe everything you we are told, by whomever is talking? In my opinion, now is the time for an essential paradigm shift for everyone on this planet - we need to re-evaluate, re-equip and retune our own observational skills or we could quite literally miss the 'boat.' peace and love, ~'†'~ _______________________________________ Although the examples cited above may at first seem extreme, the principle involved is quite real, . . . and certainly worthy of further study. ~ Campbell Randt :WhoDares: 'What’s past is never past. Just residue in the glass.' _________________________________ 'I am NOT a number. I am a free man. . . . My life is my own. . . . I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.' _________________________________ In the ‘Update Your Information’ section, MY ‘Country’ is NOT on the available list of selections. That is because I have NONE. Perhaps ‘Countries’ -- like ‘Friends’ and ‘Home’ and ‘Family’ and ‘Community’ -- are only another in a long list of FICTIONS. _________________________________ |
THE DOOM
User ID: 209204 Australia 05/23/2007 09:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They keep you distracted with "Idol" and other shit...mindless bullshit...fake news stories...or real ones that dont matter..like paris going to jail...or which democrat fucked which president up the ass.. And while you are so distracted..your world is being destroyed right under your fucking NOSE!!! Gotta keep an eye on the gorilla's..NOT the bullshit. SO DOOOOMED!!! |
† a wanderer User ID: 241637 United States 05/31/2007 09:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | physiological and psychological distractions/deceptions are linked intrinsicly by our very physical forms. It takes a lot of practice, training and cognitive observation to be 'awake'. peace and love, † |
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