Tag: senses
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Light graffiti, senses and the inexistence of "real".
After bright lights fade in the dark, our eyes can still see them as streaks, smears, and dots. Engineer Phillip Burgess drew inspiration from this “bug” of human vision to build the NeoPixel Painter: a meter-long strip of multicolor LEDs controlled by a palm-size computer. When swept across a camera’s view during a long exposure,…
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Homer, satellites, optical illusions...
Amazon does not get greener in dry seasons, even though this is what the initial data from satellites showed. A correction made by scientists who analyzed the respective data revealed that it was all due to an optical illusion. (1, 2) In the beginning we had our own eyes and nothing more. Then we developed satellites to…
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Dogmatic Religion = Dogmatic Science = Belief in senses!
A belief in the literal Biblical version of creation may boil down, in part, to personality. A new study suggests that people who believe in creationism are more likely to prefer to take in information via their senses versus via intuition. In contrast, religious believers who see the Bible's creation story as symbolic tend to…
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Close your eyes. Pay attention.
Attention is what steers your perception. But attention is a limited resource. If you do not attent to something you cannot be aware of it. But you can attend an event without being aware of it! (1) Being aware of what you see. Or focusing on your internal thoughts? Most choose the first. But is it…
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I can see what I THINK!
Most people can see their body's movement in the absence of light. (1) We know that senses feed our brain. We tend to (deliberately?) forget that the reverse process also applies.
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