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fact of sensory illusion? (r)
Published Oct. 28, 2009Views: 680
Have you ever wondered if others see and hear the same things you do? After all, images and sounds are picked up by our senses, and then transferred to our brain for processing.
What if our brain - conditioned by previous experiences and teachings - decodes information in a bias fashion? Could a person say one thing and we hear another?
That would certainly explain why people don't seem to find a common ground, at times, or why some find a particular person or thing beautiful while others consider the same thing unattractive or unpleasant. In my personal experience, I know there have been situations when I said one thing and others understood something completely different; it was like we were on entirely different agendas.
What about those cases when the same thing is observed or heard by multiple individuals? Could it be that the response we hear from others is also biased and "produced" by our brain? Is it possible that we "decide" what we are going to hear from others, and selectively choose who will agree with us and who won't?
The hidden triggers in our subconscious have the power to affect our actions and the way we personally approach things, so it would only make sense that they have an impact on the way we see or hear.
What's your opinion?
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GOLO member since March 30, 2009
October 28, 2009 9:46 a.m.
After all these tears it's nice know I'm not the only one. I've had the same notion since I was about 10 years old. Mama laughed at me when I asked her about and so did my wife. I still believe it to be a realistic possibility. Color blindness, in some cases, could be one example. Interesting note, they claim that everyone is colorblind at birth and we don't actually start seeing colors until about 6-7 months old.
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October 28, 2009 9:45 a.m.
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October 28, 2009 9:11 a.m.
GOLO member since January 27, 2009
October 28, 2009 9:07 a.m.
Simple solution to your dilemma. Have someone prepare a piece of paper with a blue dot, and a green dot. Ask folks to point to the green dot. If they are pointing at the one you think is blue, then you have your answer.
GOLO member since January 27, 2009
October 28, 2009 9:05 a.m.
GOLO member since April 24, 2008
October 28, 2009 8:58 a.m.
"Could a person say one thing and we hear another?"
This describes my ex wife perfectly. I could say something, she'd hear something completely different and fuss me out over it forever. She'd do this to others too. My older step-daughter and I had several conversations about this. She ended up having to leave her mom too.
GOLO member since July 10, 2007
October 28, 2009 8:53 a.m.
I'm not sure about a lot of things, but I do know that your picture is indeed a beautiful thing to me!
October 28, 2009 8:50 a.m.
This is one reason why eye witness evidence is not to be trusted. We see what our brains says we see and that does not match reality in many cases. It fills in gaps in the data so that we think we have a full picture of what happened but doesn't tell us what it made up and what was reality. You can experience that sometimes when seeing a person that look a little like someone you know, for a split second often they look exactly like the friend because your brain fills in the details from memory but then quickly changes the image as it gathers enough data to work out that it is not someone you know.
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October 28, 2009 8:46 a.m.
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October 28, 2009 8:39 a.m.
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