Colours. Subjectivity. Mind.

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“Can you imagine a color you’ ve never seen?” Jeffrey Tibbetts asks, looking directly into the Skype camera. We would like to think that we can, of course, that our imaginations are limitless. But the answer, no matter how much we skirt around it, is actually “no.” However, Tibbetts insists that he himself can see another color. He, along with several friends, is part of a homegrown experiment where he has attempted to alter his vision to see in the infrared, which humans can’t usually see. The three experimenters have just completed a 25-day nutritional regimen and, as their bodies return to normal, they will continue to document their vision for the next two weeks. Very early results appear promising, albeit incomplete. But several experts in ophthalmology have doubts about the purpose and safety of the project, not to mention the validity of the results themselves. (1)

Our eyes deceive us. No matter what we think we see, we will always have a problem to convince the others of what we see. Because vision is a matter of the mind.

Everything is in our mind.

And how can you convince someone of what you have in your mind?

Unless he and you share the same m…

Huh?

Chickens. Chaos. Order.

The unusual arrangement of cells in a chicken’s eye constitutes the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as “disordered hyperuniformity,” according to researchers from Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis. Research in the past decade has shown that disordered hyperuniform materials have unique properties when it comes to transmitting and controlling light waves, the researchers report in the journal Physical Review E. States of disordered hyperuniformity behave like crystal and liquid states of matter, exhibiting order over large distances and disorder over small distances. (1)

Order and Chaos.
In life.
In cosmos.
In what we see.

Everything we experience is already inside us…

Or at least inside the chickens.

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. (12)

In the beginning we had our own eyes and nothing more.

Then we developed satellites to “correct” our natural vision and enhance it in ways we did not think possible.

And now we are correcting the data from the “corrected” of the satellites.

Maybe we should go even further…
2,500 years ago…

At the era when the most exquisite images of the human soul were drawn by a blind man…

I hear you… I hear you… YES, I see you!

“I told my daughter her living room TV was out of sync. Then I noticed the kitchen telly was also dubbed badly. Suddenly I noticed that her voice was out of sync too. It wasn’t the TV, it was me.”

PH is the first confirmed case of someone who hears people speak before registering the movement of their lips. His situation is giving unique insights into how our brains unify what we hear and see. [1]

It may seem weird for us to think of someone living into a bad chinese movie with English dubbing, but everything is in the mind after all!

Light travels much faster than sound, so we shouldn’t “see” the lips of other people moving at exactly the same time the sound of their voice comes to our ears. However out brain sucessfully processes these two (optical and sound) information in such a way that we see these two phenomena synchronized.

Reality. Senses. Subjectivity.

Seeing it. Hearing it. Living it every day.

Not necessarily in this order… 😉

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