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CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTIZED: Consciousness occurs in ‘time slices’ lasting only milliseconds, study suggests.
According to Herzog and fellow researcher Frank Scharnowski from the University of Zurich, neither the ‘continuous’ nor ‘discrete’ hypotheses can by themselves aptly describe how we process the world around us, as numerous studies testing people’s visual awareness seem to disprove both notions.
But what if elements of both hypotheses were taking place at the same time in a continuous interplay between conscious and unconscious thought?
“According to our model, the elements of a visual scene are first unconsciously analysed. This period can last up to 400 ms and involves, amongst other processes, the analysis of stimulus features such as the orientation or colour of elements and temporal features such as object duration and object simultaneity,” the authors write in PLOS Biology.
After this analysis is complete, the researchers say the features we’ve detected are integrated into our conscious perception, compressing all the unconscious recording into something we’re actually aware of.
In other words, while we’re taking the world in, we’re not actually consciously perceiving it. Instead, we’re just mutely using our senses to record data for up to 400 ms at a time. Then, in what could be called a moment of clarity, we consciously perceive the stimuli that our senses have detected.
The team thinks this presentation of information to our consciousness lasts for about 50 milliseconds, during which we also stop taking new sensory information in. And then repeat.
Hmm. Or maybe this is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. Also see this.
D3X/Mamiya 645 45mm 2.8 N/extension tube/SU800/Metz 52 AF-1 (2x)
Got it cheap from a used store, unfortunately it's a dud. Returned for a refund. Before it was returned, took some naked images of the mic to capture the mechanical art inside. :)
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
Camille Pissarro
February 4, 2013. This sculpture is located on the main floor of the CISTI building (M-55) in Ottawa and is called Perceptions of Reality, and is by David Makow. I saw a nearly identical sculpture a few hours later in the lobby of M-50, so I wonder whether it isn't a set. The very large wall hanging behind the sculpture says "Defend the Earth", and now is an almost ironic twist in this building that is nearly empty of staff these days. As you may have guessed, today was another training day in Ottawa; so is tomorrow.
Tricky things are eyes and brains. Sometimes, they don't quite tell it as it is. Like here.
We're at Llandudno, it's early evening, the weather is all over the place and so is this picture. But, hang on, look again. The shot is actually perfectly straight. Never mind the half-cock platform lighting or the PIS screen that looks like it might succumb to gravity any second. Go stand in that spot, that exact spot that I stood on. This is what you'll see.
There's every chance that your train wont be 67022 with the Manwag set on 1K96 of course, you have barely 30 minutes 5 days a week for that one. But time it right and it just might be...
1 July 2015
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see. The
writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if
by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin
At the Art Institute during the 2012 Lichtenstein exhibit.
More about this painting: blog.artic.edu/blog/2012/08/24/lichtenstein-of-the-week-14/
© Andy Marfia 2012
“Objective perception means perceiving reality, all that confronts our awareness, as it is. It is a matter of seeing things as they are, rather than seeing them from a certain point of view or position. So by objective we do not mean the scientific positivist sense, in which objective means what exists physically outside us rather than in the mind. We also do not mean objective in the sense of not being emotional, or not being experiential. We mean seeing things, seeing internal or external things as they are, instead of subjectively. Subjective is the antithesis; it means according to our positions, feelings, filters, beliefs and attitudes. So objective perception means pure perception, free from all positions, bias, filters, conflicts, intentions etc. It is perceiving whatever it is without any obscuration or intermediacy, so we see it just the way it is in itself.” - A. Hameed Ali
How many passers-by actually perceived 4 and 5-year old Fabrício and Guilherme living on the streets of São Paulo?
Objectively or subjectively......?
I'll be telling their story in a new group later on..................and asking for your help too!
Flash Set-up:
Canon Speedlite 580EXII @ 1/8 power, 50mm zoom, fired through softbox 0.5m above/behind subject.
White paper reflectors positioned in front of subject on both sides.
triggered by Yongnuo RF-602 Tx/Rx.
EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM @ f/5.0, 1/160s
copyright, 2012, Ferran Cubedo.
SALE OF PRINTED ARTS > : society6.com/ferrancubedo/Perception-Nature_Framed-Print#...
will you categorize this painting as pornography?
please answer: YES / NO only.
(...no argumentation needed.... no one will argue...)
Took some photos of my friends local band from Tucson. I love these guys, music is everything to them and they put everything they have into each set. Help them kickstart their EP here.