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Science is a story written by installments over time, and since so much information gets updated these days, I one day found myself wondering... What is "reality"? Is matter all that is real? One thing is for sure - change. That might seem like a silly question given how we use our senses to interact with 'reality' everyday, but I have since arrived at ideas which I am comfortable with regarding these questions (although Im still curious). So heres some questions to play with - play nicely :-) If I had to point to where my idea or concept of reality is maintained, Id be pointing to my head - how about you? Is all this environmental information just vibrational energies which are presented to our body and then decoded to form a perception in the brain according to our programs and patterns? ie: Do we subconsciously 'read' or filter this data then build an experience that seems real? Can I get outside of my experience to prove anything is fact or real, or is reality bound to ones experience like the fabric to the shirt? What of the realities I have when I dream, - my body still responds as if they are real, so what is reality? If I am not the cause (creator) of my experience; the director of my focus of attention on some level whether awake or asleep, am I controlled by something else? And if I am completely controlled by something other than me, what then is the purpose of my life? I wish you all - many pleasant realities. Pete.
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In this shortened version of a video episode from the popular Psych Files podcast (www.thepsychfiles.com) I show how the gestalt principles of perception can be seen all around us - including even in web page designs and concept maps.
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Perception of beauty andrei.info.ms
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first in a two part series with rob Williams of psych-k. (if anyone has the part with R. williams please post it!) 'the bottom line is, genes do NOT control our biology, that an assumption made years ago that was never even proven scientifically - it just seemed so correct that we bought the story ... if the mechanism actually worked according to the textbooks, ie. if the genes control biology, then at least 120000 genes would be required to make a human. but when the human genome projects results were in, ... it was discovered that 2/3rds of the genes (needed to support their model) were missing. Its not that the genes were missing, it was the understanding that was wrong. "We have to come to a new way of understanding biology. This 'new' understanding has actually already been in the leading edge of science for 10 years now. It takes at least 10 or 15 years for science to take a fact from its first inception and get it out into the public so that the people can understand it. That means anything in current textbooks is at least 10 or 15 years old. what your going to hear tonight is whats going to be the future textbooks. " -Bruce Lipton in the Biology of Perception [ www.brucelipton.com ] see also: rob williams intro to psych-k www.youtube.com more audio/video at channelzero.multiply.com
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Research being done in Dr. Eagleman's lab, piloting free fall experiments to explore time warping during high adrenaline situation.
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video about Aldous Huxley and mescaline experiments
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smoking new video from the EWH crew, "perception" put together by www.mofresh.co.nz Since forming in 2006 EWH have accrued a strong reputation for their live performance and have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with international artists Benji B and Steve Spacek, Alice Russel, Kid Koala and DJ Krush. EWHs fist vinyl 12 EP featuring the tracks Perception and collab with Steve Spacek Longtime has been released through Wonderful Noise Records Japan distributed by Jazzy Sport with another 7 and 12 in the pipeline. The self titled album features Georgia Anne Muldrow, Stacey Epps, Declaime and the legendary Billy TK Electric Wire Hustle are........ Taay Ninh - myspace.com/taaysolaa Mara TK - myspace.com/maratknz Myele Manzanza - myspace.com/myelemanzanza Benny Tones - myspace.com/bennytones Bounce to - www.myspace.com/electricwirehustle and electricwirehustle.com Boost to - itunes download itunes.apple.com
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Google Tech Talks April, 9 2008 ABSTRACT A long-term goal of Machine Learning research is to solve highy complex "intelligent" tasks, such as visual perception auditory perception, and language understanding. To reach that goal, the ML community must solve two problems: the Deep Learning Problem, and the Partition Function Problem. There is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence that complex tasks, such as invariant object recognition in vision, require "deep" architectures, composed of multiple layers of trainable non-linear modules. The Deep Learning Problem is related to the difficulty of training such deep architectures. Several methods have recently been proposed to train (or pre-train) deep architectures in an unsupervised fashion. Each layer of the deep architecture is composed of an encoder which computes a feature vector from the input, and a decoder which reconstructs the input from the features. A large number of such layers can be stacked and trained sequentially, thereby learning a deep hierarchy of features with increasing levels of abstraction. The training of each layer can be seen as shaping an energy landscape with low valleys around the training samples and high plateaus everywhere else. Forming these high plateaus constitute the so-called Partition Function problem. A particular class of methods for deep energy-based unsupervised learning will be described that solves the Partition Function problem by imposing sparsity constraints on the ...