The Itch - good article about how we perceive the world

[ytain]

The information found at the link below also is related to the perception:

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory

It mentions how stress can influence the memory.

Ytain

 

[ytain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMdgK3SITPM

Does anyone see any connection between this video clip on hypnosis induced invisibility and the quote Endymion picked out from the initial post?

The images in our mind are extraordinarily rich. We can tell if something is liquid or solid, heavy or light, dead or alive. But the information we work from is poor—a distorted, two-dimensional transmission with entire spots missing. So the mind fills in most of the picture. You can get a sense of this from brain-anatomy studies. If visual sensations were primarily received rather than constructed by the brain, you’d expect that most of the fibres going to the brain’s primary visual cortex would come from the retina. Instead, scientists have found that only twenty per cent do; eighty per cent come downward from regions of the brain governing functions like memory. Richard Gregory, a prominent British neuropsychologist, estimates that visual perception is more than ninety per cent memory and less than ten per cent sensory nerve signals. When Oaklander theorized that M.’s itch was endogenous, rather than generated by peripheral nerve signals, she was onto something important.

Once again we see scientific evidence that we are programmed to see the world in a certain way, and it's far more dependent upon memory than it is upon actual seeing. So we see our cat, our house, our families, our friends, largely – actually 90%, if Gregory is correct - as we expect to see them according to our memories of them.

Ytain

 

[Esote]

One more clue about the black background required for Psychomantium: the palming exercise from the book "Perfect Sight Without Eyeglasses" by William Bates _http://www.i-see.org/perfect_sight/ (chapter 12, and the next chapters stresses the importance of color black in memory).

Ytain

Very interesting, thank you Ytain for the link

 

[Sirius]

Just what I stumbled over yesterday. I didn't wan't to create a new thread here, so I'm going to append it to this thread (I hope this is okay).
See here some nice illustration about brain & perception: http://www.purveslab.net/seeforyourself/

 

[HowToBe]

Wow... when if first read that section about M. scratching through her skull and into her brain, I got lightheaded and had to go lay down for a bit!

Nevertheless, very interesting material. It shows for one thing how dangerous a faulty perceptual mechanism and unconscious process run amok can be to the self! One thing I find notable about the story is that each time, precautions were only increased AFTER serious harm had occurred. And then there was the materialist reflex (OSIT) to go after cutting the nerve rather than seek a less immediately physical approach. But I understand that it was an extreme situation where it was unclear how to proceed.