2020 US Election - Let The Games Begin!

Today I think many are manipulated to become so "obsessed" by the propaganda that they are unable to gather true knowledge.

I think one has to develop or already have a capacity for "perception".

Yes @goyacobol... Some years ago I read some material about PERCEPTUAL FILTERS. And The Perceptual Capacity that the C's refers is indeed valid...

Read below the Hugeeeeee... amount and or type of perceptions (Perceptual Filters discovered until now just here in 3D):

Understanding them will allow us to have a good "Perceptual Firewall" sort of saying.

What is perception?​

Perception is the ability to capture, process, and actively make sense of the information that our senses receive. It is the cognitive process that makes it possible to interpret our surroundings with the stimuli that we receive throughout sensory organs. This important cognitive ability is essential to our daily lives because it makes it possible to understand our surroundings. It's possible to train and improve perception with cognitive stimulation. It is an active process and requires that we process information with both "bottom-up" and "top-down" processing, meaning that we are not only directed by the stimuli that we receive (passive, bottom-up processing) but that we expect and anticipate certain stimuli that control perception (active, top-up processing).

Types of Perception and Neuroanatomy​

Perception is a complex process that allows us to connect with the surrounding world. Classically, it is divided in five senses:
  • Visual: The ability to see and interpret light information within the visible spectrum that arrives to our eyes. The area of the brain responsible for visual perception is the occipital lobe (primary visual cortex V1 and secondary visual cortex V2).
  • Hearing: Ability to receive and interpret information that arrives to our ears by audible frequency waves through the air or another mean (sound). The brain part in charge of the basic stage of auditory perception is the temporal lobe (primary auditory cortex A1 and secondary auditory cortex A2).
  • Touch, somatosensory or haptic : The capacity to interpret information of pressure and vibration received on the surface of our skin. The parietal lobe is the part of the brain responsible for the basic stages in haptic perception (primary somatosensory cortex S1 and secondary somatosensory cortex S2).
  • Smell or olfactory : The ability to interpret information of chemical substances dissolved in the air (smell). Basic stages of the olfactory perception are done by the olfactory bulb (primary olfactory cortex) and the piriform cortex (secondary olfactory cortex).
  • Taste: The ability to interpret information from chemical substances dissolved in saliva (taste). The main brain areas in control of the basic stages are the primary taste areas G1 (postcentral inferior gyrus, parietal ventral lobe, anterior insula, fronto-parietal medial operculum) and secundary taste areas G2 (caudolateral frontal orbital cortex and anterior cingulate cortex).

Other types of Perception
Apart from the classical five senses, today we are aware that there are other types of perception:
  • Spacial : the ability to be aware of your relationships with the environment around you and with yourself. It is related to the haptic and kinesthetic perception.
  • Form : the ability to retrieve information about the limits and aspects of an entity through the outline and contrast. It is related to visual and haptic perception.
  • Vestibular : the capacity to interpret gravity's force according to the relative position of our head and the floor. It helps maintain balance and control our posture. It's related to auditory perception.
  • Thermoception or thermal : the ability to interpret temperature on the surface of our skin. It's related to the haptic perception.
  • Nociperception : the capacity to interpret very high or very low-temperature stimuli, as well as the presence of harmful chemicals or high-pressure stimuli. It is related to the haptic and thermoception.
  • Itching : the ability to interpret harmful stimuli on our skin that causes scratching. It's related to haptic perception.
  • Propioception: the ability to interpret information about the position and state of our muscles and tendons which allow us to be aware of our posture and in what area is each part of our body. It is related to the vestibular and haptic perception.
  • Interoceptive : the capacity to interpret the sensations that indicate the state of our internal organs.
  • Time : The ability to interpret changes in stimuli and be able to organize them in time.
  • Kinesthetic : the ability to interpret information about movement and velocity of our surroundings and our own body. It is related to visual, spatial, time, haptic, interoceptive, propioception and vestibular perception.
  • Chemosensory : the ability to interpret chemical substances dissolved in saliva that translate into strong tastes. It is related to taste perception but the two use different structures.
  • Magnetoreception or magnetoception: the capacity to interpret information from magnetic fields. It is more developed in animals like pigeons. However, it has been discovered that humans also have magnetic material in the ethmoid (a nose bone), making it possible for humans to have magnetoception.

Phases of Perception​

Perception is not a single process that happens spontaneously. Instead, it is a series of phases that take place in order for the correct appreciation of stimuli to occur. For example, to perceive visual information, it's not enough for light to reflect off an object and this stimulating our retinal receptor cells for them to send this information to the correct brain areas. For it to happen, all of that is necessary. However, it is an active process, where we have to select, organize and interpret the information sent to the brain:
  • Selection: The number of stimuli we are exposed daily exceeds our capacity. For this reason, we need to filter and choose the information we want to perceive. This selection is done through our attention, experiences, necessities and preferences.
  • Organization: Once we know what to perceive, we need to gather the stimuli in groups in order to give them meaning. In perception, there is synergy, since it is an overall recognition of what is perceived and it can't be reduced to separate stimuli characteristics. According to Gestalt principles, stimuli organization is not random but instead it follows specific criteria.
  • Interpretation: When we have organized all the selected stimuli, we then proceed to give them meaning, completing the perception process. The interpretation process is modulated by our experience and expectations.


Other Gestalt principles
Other Gestalt principles highlight the person's role in this process, designating a three stage sequence:
  • Step 1: First hypothesis about what we are about to perceive. This will guide the selection, organization and interpretation of the stimuli.
  • Step 2: Entrance of the sensory information.
  • Step 3: Contrast the first hypothesis with the sensory information obtained.

Examples of Perception​

  • It's important to identify on time any perceptive problem that the student might have. This will allow us to apply the means necessary so no auditory information is lost (what the professor says) or visual information (the text on the board and books).
  • A correct perception helps workers do their job efficiently. Artists are a clear example of the importance of it in the professional world. However, any job requires, in a greater or lesser manner, some type of perception: sweepers, taxi drivers, designers, policemen, cashiers, builders, etc.
  • Perceiving road signs, as well as sounds from your own car, is essential in driving safely.
  • It makes it possible for us to advance in our environment and interact with it. Grocery shopping, playing a video game, cooking and doing laundry require that we use all our senses.

Agnosia and other disorders regarding perception​

In some circumstances, perception may not reflect reality without this being pathological. These "failures" in perception may be illusions or hallucinations. Illusions refer to an erroneous interpretation of a real external stimulus, while hallucinations consist of an erroneous perception without the presence of a real external stimulus. These perceptual experiences can happen with any existing pathologies, they are mainly caused by physiological or cognitive characteristics of the system or altered states (substance abuse or sleep). An example of illusion would be the well-known optical illusions (perceiving two identical colours differently, perceiving movement in a static image, etc.). The most common hallucinations are hypnagogic (when you are falling asleep and perceive a figure, sound or feel like someone is touching you), hypnopompic (same sensations but when you are waking up) and the ones derived from consuming hallucinogenic drugs (such as LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms that provoke more elaborate hallucinations). Nonetheless, illusions and hallucinations can also be pathological, related with schizophrenia, psychosis episodes, delusional ideas.
Perception can also be altered by damage to our sensory organs (for example, an eye injury), damage in the pathways that take the sensory information to the brain (for example, glaucoma) or in the brain areas in charge of perception (for example, an injury in the occipital cortex). A damage in any of these three points can alter the normal perception of stimuli.
The most common perception disorder is Agnosia. This disorder entails a difficulty in directing and controlling perception, as well as behaviour in general. There are two types: Perceptive visual agnosia (can see parts of an object but is incapable of understanding the object as a whole) and Associative visual agnosia (understands the object as a whole but can place what object is it). It's difficult to understand it through these disorders since even though they can see, for them it is a similar sensation to being blind. There are also more specific disorders, such as akinetopsia (inability to see movement), achromatopsia (inability to see colours), prosopagnosia (inability to recognize familiar faces), auditive agnosia (inability to recognize an object by sound, and, in the case of verbal information, person with agnosia wouldn't be able to recognize the language as such), amusia (inability to recognize or reproduce musical tones or rhythms). These disorders are produced by brain damages such as ictus, brain trauma or, even a neurodegenerative disease.

How Can you Measure and Assess Perception?​

Perception evaluation can be of great help in different aspects of life: in academic fields (to know if a student needs extra help to perceive the information in class), in clinical fields ( to know if a patient will present difficulties in relation to the environment)or in professional fields (to know if a worker needs support due to a perceptive problem).
Through a complete neuropsychological evaluation we can measure it and other cognitive abilities efficiently and reliably.

Here is the link for the referenced material, the even have a method called CogniFit to deal with and improve your perceptual filters.
Link CogniFit

Just my two cents... :cool2::cool2::cool2::cool2::cool2::cool2::cool2:

EDIT: Sorry if suddenly I get OFF Topic my apologies.
 
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I have been wondering what is going to happen tomorrow. Then I thought, ehh, just watch the show. (or don't) Then it hit me. If they want to quickly move into extreme authoritarian control with minimal opposition, a domestic terror law could be the center piece to implement that. If so, tomorrow could be a major false flag event to trigger and legitimize a quick knee-jerk response with the obligatory 550 page law written in 10 minutes that nobody is allowed to read before they vote on it. I sure hope not, of course. But that makes logical sense. Maybe this is too obvious to actually happen. I don't know. If I had to vote on a poll with all the various outcomes, that would be my guess. The ultimate hubris would be that they don't even bother with the PSYOP.
 
I have been wondering what is going to happen tomorrow. Then I thought, ehh, just watch the show. (or don't) Then it hit me. If they want to quickly move into extreme authoritarian control with minimal opposition, a domestic terror law could be the center piece to implement that. If so, tomorrow could be a major false flag event to trigger and legitimize a quick knee-jerk response with the obligatory 550 page law written in 10 minutes that nobody is allowed to read before they vote on it. I sure hope not, of course. But that makes logical sense. Maybe this is too obvious to actually happen. I don't know. If I had to vote on a poll with all the various outcomes, that would be my guess. The ultimate hubris would be that they don't even bother with the PSYOP.

Hey, lets just not do that dang "quick knee-jerk"...and enjoy the show. I think this is one of those situations where we don't have that much "time" to fret. We will figure all this weird stuff out together.
 
I have been wondering what is going to happen tomorrow. Then I thought, ehh, just watch the show. (or don't) Then it hit me. If they want to quickly move into extreme authoritarian control with minimal opposition, a domestic terror law could be the center piece to implement that. If so, tomorrow could be a major false flag event to trigger and legitimize a quick knee-jerk response with the obligatory 550 page law written in 10 minutes that nobody is allowed to read before they vote on it. I sure hope not, of course. But that makes logical sense. Maybe this is too obvious to actually happen. I don't know. If I had to vote on a poll with all the various outcomes, that would be my guess. The ultimate hubris would be that they don't even bother with the PSYOP.
That "550-page law" probably was written years ago, and just has been waiting for other pieces to be maneuvered into place.
 
So today is the big day, huh? One thing I've noticed is how Biden and his administration are targeting soldiers. I've not seen an American President question the loyalty of the soldiers before, at least not publicly. They are treating the soldiers kind of... bad. They are treating soldiers as if they are part of the problem. Very interesting!



In any case, let's see what unfolds today. I imagine nothing major given how much security has been deployed. I imagine the fireworks is to come later when Biden looks to implement the Great Reset in the US of A.
 
So today is the big day, huh? One thing I've noticed is how Biden and his administration are targeting soldiers. I've not seen an American President question the loyalty of the soldiers before, at least not publicly. They are treating the soldiers kind of... bad. They are treating soldiers as if they are part of the problem.

Yes, even Biden's team understands what's taking place in DC is the Deep State on full display. Maybe that's the reasoning behind President Trump saying, "he wishes the new administration LUCK, very important word".
 
So today is the big day, huh? One thing I've noticed is how Biden and his administration are targeting soldiers. I've not seen an American President question the loyalty of the soldiers before, at least not publicly. They are treating the soldiers kind of... bad. They are treating soldiers as if they are part of the problem. Very interesting!



In any case, let's see what unfolds today. I imagine nothing major given how much security has been deployed. I imagine the fireworks is to come later when Biden looks to implement the Great Reset in the US of A.
We have some good shows, tv series and movies, do you like sci-fi?
 

Deputation of 2,000 National Guard Troops

This from the Arlington Cardinal
U.S. Marshals at 8:00 a.m. Monday January 18, 2021 announced that 2,000 National Guard
troops were sworn in as Special Deputy U.S. Marshals.

The official Twitter account of the U.S. Marshals posted photos showing Chief Lamont Ruffin from D.C. District Court swearing in 2000 National Guard troops as Special Deputy U.S. Marshals prior to the upcoming presidential inauguration.


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Deputation gives the guardsmen temporary, limited, law enforcement authority pertaining specifically to the safety and protection of the inauguration and related events.

According to officials, the FBI is vetting 25,000 National Guard service members at the Washington D.C. inaugural, where there is concern that there is a threat to the president-elect.

Chief Deputy U.S. Marshall swears in National Guard troops
Inauguration swearing in Jan. 17 2021
 
‘Trump‘s president in four months’: Baseball champ Aubrey Huff lashes out at Biden and Harris as he claims Democrats control minds — RT Sport News
Two-time World Series champion Aubrey Huff has predicted that Donald Trump will return as US president in four months and claimed that new head of state Joe Biden's party put their political opponents in "re-education camps".
I like these kind of predictions! Maybe if millions read this, the 'creative energy of humanity' could change to the above timeline? :)
Also there was the seer lady predicting "Macron out by December." That was an amazing prophecy, I think! Too bad billions didn't read it to maybe somehow "weigh that in" and start paddling toward that timeline. :)
 
No, that's not fake. That's a typical US politician giving an interview.

The image of Mao on the wall over his right shoulder - as AI pointed out - is (a copy of) one from a series of Andy Warhol paintings of Mao, in which the Chinese leader's famous portrait, as it appeared across China at the time (and on the cover of the 'Little Red Book') was 'glammed up' by the NYC artist. I don't know for certain, but I strongly suspect that Warhol was lampooning Mao, not lionizing him. So having that on one's wall, if anything, signals one's belief that the Chinese Communist Party founder is worthy of ridicule, not worship.

As an artist, I've considered Warhol's work quite a bit over the years, and I've always thought writing about it made for a compelling challenge. As to whether having a Warhol silkscreen print of Mao on your wall indicates you yourself are into Mao, or Maoism, or communism, or the CCP, it would definitely be inconclusive without further evidence. If, on the other hand, the art collector is also known to be in support of such ideology, then owning the portrait would certainly not contradict such advocacy. But, again, just on its own, Warhol's silkscreen portrait of Mao indicates a taste in this brand of art (which is in fact apolitical), and says nothing about the art collector's personal politics -- or, at least not necessarily.

Having said that, in an atmosphere of increasing "China awareness," let's call it, related to American politics, it could have people -- especially those being interviewed on camera -- reconsidering whether they want to have Warhol's portrait of Mao up in their living room, depending on the "message" they are wishing (or not wishing) to convey. In other words, people generally speaking are not going to have a sophisticated understanding of Pop Art, so it might be a good idea to put the Warhol into storage for the time being -- or, at least consider taking it down if you happen to be interviewed on camera -- oh, unless you want to be seen as a China enthusiast, since that's probably how it will be interpreted.
 
As for more pertinent matters: today, as it's such a special day, I've been listening to the latest Thomas Paine podcast in order to indulge in Mike Moore's special brand of "wake up and smell the coffee" commentary, replete, as always, with sardonic humor, timely musical scoring, and his incessant sprinkling of biting bitter laughter:


"Truth is the new hate speech."

I think he's even selling T-shirts with this timely motto emblazoned across them.
 
As for more pertinent matters: today, as it's such a special day, I've been listening to the latest Thomas Paine podcast in order to indulge in Mike Moore's special brand of "wake up and smell the coffee" commentary, replete, as always, with sardonic humor, timely musical scoring, and his incessant sprinkling of biting bitter laughter:


"Truth is the new hate speech."

I think he's even selling T-shirts with this timely motto emblazoned across them.
Like this one? Women – Truth is the new hate speech – Revolt!

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