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NOTHING seems more real than the world of everyday objects, but things are not as they seem. A set of relatively simple experiments reveals enormous holes is our intuitive understanding of physical reality. Trying to explain what goes on leads to some very peculiar and often highly surprising theories of the world around us. 
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The simulation assumption is ancient, though, and shows how integrated this transcendent view of virtual reality is with spiritual beliefs, especially Gnostic and Eastern religious beliefs. The Hindus called virtual reality, Maya, and believed that it, too, had internal, external, and transcendent qualities. Maya was a veil of consciousness between Brahman and Atman (dual aspects of the unitary godhead), as well as the projected external world. So, are current virtual reality technologies just tools to discover and transcend the programmed reality? VIRTUAL REALITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=virtual%20reality
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"A human being is a deciding being," Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," which sold more than 10 million copies. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology Via Dimitris Agorastos
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That’s probably enough for one day, but just to take this one step further; we know that what we see is not the world. The image we see is a mental construction of the world, and psychology has identified numerous examples of how we each see the world a little differently. An obvious example is colour-blindedness. Since the brain is constructing the world we see around us, and if we assume that the neural code and the image are different things… where is reality? Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Forget everything you know about the world and how it looks. Everything you have ever seen, everything you have ever heard, even everything you have ever felt and smelt, is not real. It’s all just pretend.
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Playing Angry Birds or Mario Kart can warp your perception of what's real and what's virtual – and that might be just what you need, as Sally Adee found...
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We perceive Reality through our senses which convince us that the way in which we experience the world around us is exactly the way it exists. The true nature of Reality, however, is not experienced through this superficial perception of the world.
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Taiwanese media group United Daily News has partnered with visual browser Aurasma to create an augmented national daily newspaper in which the images, ads and editorial are interactive...
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Qualcomm demos new tech Qualcomm has demoed a new gesture system at its Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. It allows the user to control an inte...
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Interview with Jason Silva by Frank Rose Maybe that was what got us talking about Inception, Christopher Nolan’s metaphysical action flick, which came out two years ago and won’t let go. From there it was inevitable that we’d slide into The Matrix, eXistenZ, and other movies that seek to limn the parameters of reality. Eventually we had to go, but we ended up continuing the conversation online. What follows is an edited transcript in which we question everything, including those bricks on the wall.
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“We tend to regard what we see as the real world,” said Dr Mareschal.
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When we read a novel, the same areas of the brain activate as those that light up when we encounter something similar in the real world. Smell a lilac, or read about the scent of lilacs — it’s pretty much all the same to our brains. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from perceiving real voices. A simple electronic application may help the patient learn to shift focus. Via Dimitris Agorastos
jewell Moss's curator insight,
March 10, 2014 8:03 PM
So interesting how the mind works, we are coming so close to discovering the ilnesses of the mind, and how to prevent it. Read on! #Schizophrenia
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The author takes a moment to debunk “singularity” — the theory that man and machine will eventually merge in some kind of climax — calling it “the geek rapture.” In Gibson’s opinion, the biggest changes will sneak into our lives gradually, the way Walkmans morphed into iPods, then iPhones. “There’s not going to be any ‘future,’ because things are changing too quickly,” he says. “It’s just going to be . . . stranger and stranger, and as it happens to you, you will be in the present moment, and it will be weird.”
ht David McConville Via ddrrnt, Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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A new survey of teen girls and reality TV finds some surprising -- and positive -- trends.
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Can our minds tells us what is real and what is not? Or do we live in a kind of fog, only imagining we know what's "out there"?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project at Microsoft Research Cambridge has brought forth a prototype called Holodesk, which lets you manipulate virtual objects with your hand. You literally 'get your hands on' the virtual display.
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