Tag: reality
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Reality like Dreams...
A computer can decode the stuff of dreams. By comparing brain activity during sleep with activity patterns collected while study participants looked at certain objects, a computer learned to identify some contents of people’s unconscious reveries. [1] "It's striking work" says cognitive psychologist Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in…
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Red: An unusual problem...
Does the color "red" exist? Do not rush to answer. Yes, we see it. But most of the animals do not. And not to mention that there are people who cannot see colour either. Does the majority determine which things "exist" ? Someone with whom I was discussing on the matter said: "Even if one…
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Rats, senses, reality...
US researchers have effectively given laboratory rats a "sixth sense" using an implant in their brains. (1) An experimental device allowed the rats to "touch" infrared light - which is normally invisible to them. The team at Duke University fitted the rats with an infrared detector wired up to microscopic electrodes that were implanted in the…
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Reality, QM, Bell...
Quantum mechanics (QM) experiments (related to Bell's inequality) have shown that reality does NOT exist when we are not observing it. [1] This is amazing. Although at this point some objections still arise concerning this conclusion, it is really important to know that science has began thinking about concepts that have for a long time…
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Walking through walls, QM, Reality...
What exactly is "real"? How do you know that your dreams are "not real"? Because your mother told you so. How do you know that the wall you see in front of you is "real"? Because you see it. And because other people see it too. But not all people see the same. And surely not…
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