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Subject: What if the world around is isn't the world around us?

Wow, just wow!

A while back, I read a book titled Incognito written by renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman.

In Incognito, Dr. Eagleman makes some interesting observations.

The eyes do not "see". They merely confirm that everything is where the brain says it should be. Basically, the eye has a very small region of focus. The periphery of the eye is usually somewhat hazy or blurry. Eagleman claims that once the eye detects the environment, the brain takes over.

Suddenly, our vision isn't vision, but rather hallucination. The eyes merely confirm what our brains suppose to be true.

What about other senses? How about the sense of time?

In one experiment, a few dozen test subjects were told to flip a light switch to turn on a light. A small delay was added into the circuit, so the light would take a few milliseconds longer to turn on. After several repetitions, the delay was removed.

The test subjects swore the light turned on before the switch was flipped.

How is this possible? How can our brain be feeding us information that is quite false?

How about Phantom Limb Syndrome? The brain believes it is receiving information from a limb that isn't there.

What if the brain is simply generating a reality for us to live in, and is merely fooling us into believing it?

Brains have the ability to both feel and see what isn't there. People have heard voices in their heads. There have been cases of scrambled tastes and scents. And even our sense of time is relative to the brain.

The brain is mightier than we might imagine.

  • 01.03.2013 7:30 PM PDT
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Inception 2

  • 01.03.2013 7:31 PM PDT

Take me into your heart! Accept me as your savior! Nail me to the -blam!- cross, and let me be reborn!

Sounds to me like the brain needs a nerf in the next title update.

  • 01.03.2013 7:31 PM PDT

Wheres Meh Sniper?

Youtube page

But what if it is?

  • 01.03.2013 7:32 PM PDT

Well, now all you have to do is go out and prove your hypothesis.

  • 01.03.2013 7:32 PM PDT

There's no way to get back experiences you missed.
So start right now today and risk furiousness for bliss.

So everyone's brain is creating the same reality at the same time?

  • 01.03.2013 7:33 PM PDT

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle- victorious"

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Sounds to me like the brain needs a nerf in the next title update.


Brains are so OP.

  • 01.03.2013 7:33 PM PDT

Why Bungie, why would you do this?! - Halo Community

But what if it is?

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In my opinion, I don't care who laughs last or first. As long as I laugh in the process, everything is good.

I'm pretty sure this video explains the whole light switch thing.

  • 01.03.2013 7:35 PM PDT

The human element always mucks things up.

What if we peed where we pooped and pooped where we peed?

  • 01.03.2013 7:35 PM PDT

maybe because the brain already knows the environment? I got to the test subject part before i called bull.

  • 01.03.2013 7:36 PM PDT

All are very interesting observations. Like how blind people can, in a way, "sense" objects around them. It's astounding how the brain works.

  • 01.03.2013 7:39 PM PDT

Wow, just wow!


Posted by: Teleidoscope
All are very interesting observations. Like how blind people can, in a way, "sense" objects around them. It's astounding how the brain works.



Another testament to the brain is the repurposed sense. Electric pads were placed on a blind man's tongue. These pads were hooked up to a video camera on the man's head. By wearing this device around, the brain adjusted to the electric sensor as an extra sense. This man became able to sense (a.k.a. "see") his environment through electrical impulses on his tongue.

Astounding.

  • 01.03.2013 7:45 PM PDT
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if you start question Reality. you have too much free time. at least thats my thoughts on the matter.

  • 01.03.2013 7:59 PM PDT

Wow, just wow!


Posted by: DrMod
if you start question Reality. you have too much free time. at least thats my thoughts on the matter.


You are probably right. Downtime during Holiday vacations always messes with my mind.

I don't personally believe this, but it is an interesting theory.

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Inception 2

  • 01.03.2013 8:02 PM PDT

And when you smoke the Mary Jane.. You tap into the full power of your brain.

  • 01.03.2013 8:04 PM PDT

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle- victorious"

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Posted by: Teleidoscope
All are very interesting observations. Like how blind people can, in a way, "sense" objects around them. It's astounding how the brain works.



Another testament to the brain is the repurposed sense. Electric pads were placed on a blind man's tongue. These pads were hooked up to a video camera on the man's head. By wearing this device around, the brain adjusted to the electric sensor as an extra sense. This man became able to sense (a.k.a. "see") his environment through electrical impulses on his tongue.

Astounding.


The brain is a truly amazing thing. We've barely unlocked it's potential imo.

  • 01.03.2013 8:04 PM PDT