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POPSSimple Tinnitus Remedies Hearing is an important sensory function. At least people with hearing impairment understand what this means. Tinnitus usually accompanies this disability. While people are looking in a lot of directions for remedies, there are actually simple tinnitus remedies and there is no need to look any farther.
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POPSPeople May be Able to Taste Words He and his co-author, Cesare Parise, tested 12 volunteers in trials during which an image flashed up on a screen at a slightly different time to one of two tones - one low-pitched and one high-pitched - being played. There were two sets of image: a large and a small black dot, or an angular and a very rounded shape, Dots of a certain size match tones of a certain pitch. People associate the low-pitched sound with the larger dot
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POPSRe-discovering Gary Zukav I have read The Seat of the Soul for ove r years in time sos deep introspection, and find it always new and forthcoming with wisdom for the moment I need it. If you have ever asked yourself the question "who am I, and where am I going" as a spiritual being, this is my "must read" book of all times. The Seat of the Soul.
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POPSThe Amazing Kreskin Anybody remember the Amzing Kreskin? If your younger you may not but now the "youngsters" may have a chance to get to know him. You will be amazed!
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POPSMysteries of ClairVoyance Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "visibility") is the apparent ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance is referred to as a clairvoyant ("one who sees clear").
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POPS Mysteries of ClairVoyance Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "visibility") is the apparent ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance is referred to as a clairvoyant ("one who sees clear").
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POPSTestni zaznamek To je le testni zaznamek za preverjanje delovanja in uporabnosti tega pripomočka
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POPSBlurring the Boundary Between Perception and Memory
Memory itself is not like a video-recording, with a moment-by-moment sensory image. In fact, it’s more like a puzzle: we piece together our memories, based on both what we actually remember and what seems most likely given our knowledge of the world. Just as we make educated guesses in perception, our minds’ best educated guesses help “fill in the gaps” of memory, reconstructing the most plausible picture of what happened in our past. The most striking demonstration of the minds’ guessing game occurs when we find ways to fool the system into guessing wrong. When we trick the visual system, we see a “visual illusion”—a static image might appear as if it’s moving, or a concave surface will look convex. When we fool the memory system, we form a false memory—a phenomenon made famous by researcher Elizabeth Loftus, who showed that it is relatively easy to make people remember events that never occurred. As long as the falsely remembered event could plausibly have occurred, all it takes
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POPSDifferent Levels of Psychic Abilities I feel I am more Clairsentience when it comes to my readings. I consider myself more an energy reader as to where I can feel the thoughts and emotions of other people. I am also clairvoyant, but the overall visual picture may not be as strong as the vivid feelings I get on a situation. For example, sometimes a client may come in and be like "Well what does my true love look like", and I may not be able to give you an exact visual description of him, but I can tell you all about him. I can feel his energy and break things down from there.
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POPSAre you conscious? 17 Criteria for Consciousness "Conclusions Seth et al have provided an interesting set of criteria for evaluating consciousness - the implication is that later criteria build on the earlier ones. It has applications to even the most controversial cases (for example, Terri Schiavo) and could be useful as a benchmark in the evaluation of animal intelligence and animal consciousness. That said, there are lurking problems with this account. For one, there could be alternative forms of consciousness which satisfy the later criteria without satisfying the earlier ones - we just don't know. The entire approach reeks of human-centeredness, though of course that's a necessary evil: we don't really know that any other species is conscious (and furthermore, we're merely giving our fellow humans the benefit of the doubt)."
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POPSMind, body and goal: the embodied cognition revolution "In one particularly striking study, Proffitt and his colleagues found that we perceive distances as shorter when we have a tool in our hand, but only when we intend to use it. They suggest that we perceive the environment in terms of our intentions and abilities to act within it".
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POPSSuperholographic Model of the Universe An extraordinary article. The idea seems to hark back to Leibniz's monads which always seemed very strange but has followers in the philosophy world. The discoveries of science seem to be getting more counter-intuitive as time goes by
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POPSThe Paranormal some organisations such as the United States National Science Foundation have stated that mainstream science does not support paranormal beliefs. Perhaps that's one of the reasons Scientists are surprised so often
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POPSSCIENTISTS SHOW HALLUCINOGEN CREATES UNIVERSAL “MYSTICAL” EXPERIENCE in the 1950s, showed signs of therapeutic potential or value in research into the nature of consciousness and sensory perception. “Human consciousness…is a function of the ebb and flow of neural impulses in various regions of the brain-the very substrate that drugs such as psilocybin act upon,” Schuster says. “Understanding what mediates these effects is clearly within the realm of neuroscience and deserves investigation.” “A vast gap exists between what we know of these drugs-mostly from descriptive anthropology-and what we believe we can understand using modern clinical pharmacology techniques,” says study leader Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor with Hopkins’ departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. “That gap is large because, as a reaction to the excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens has been basically frozen in time these last forty years.”
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POPSMirrors Don’t Lie.. : -) “When people are made to be self-aware, they are likelier to stop and think about what they are doing,” Dr. Bodenhausen said. “A byproduct of that awareness may be a shift away from acting on autopilot toward more desirable ways of behaving.” Physical self-reflection, in other words, encourages philosophical self-reflection, a crash course in the Socratic notion that you cannot know or appreciate others until you know yourself. "
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POPSAnimal mojo all in the tail I always thought animals had tails so they had something to chase when they got bored. Now it seems they've discovered that rats use their tails to get bored.
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POPSWhen Language Can Hold the Answer The latest research changes the framework, perhaps the language of the debate, suggesting that language clearly affects some thinking as a special device added to an ancient mental skill set. Just as adding features to a cellphone or camera can backfire, language is not always helpful. For the most part, it enhances thinking. But it can trip us up, too.
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POPSPrice Determines Our Perception *LOL* This reminds me of something similar. I'm house-hunting and here where I live, the price of real estate suddenly was lowered 7% last week. Yay, right? Folks rushed to get a good deal, but what people failed to realise, was that the prices where raised the day before by 8%!! *LOL* Sometimes it pays to just pay attention. I bet the newest homeowners here just love their new pricy houses, though. :lol: I don't like red wine all that much. :)
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POPSWhen the Eyes Play Tricks on the Ears the implication is that it's possible that perception involves more interaction between the sensory pathways than we expected and, because they are happening in low-level areas, they may be more automatic,"
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POPSHuman Animals: we are hardwired and softwired. About how even the modes by which we think the deepest questions may be limited by 'hardwired' biological givens. Also looks like a great, easy to read site introducing neuropsychology basics at a scientific level, with very clear diagrams.
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POPSYa gotta believe? Continuation: Perhaps the most common proof of Lipton’s hypothesis is what we call the placebo effect. “The critical factor,” says Irving Kirsch, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut, “is our beliefs about what's going to happen to us. You don't have to rely on drugs to see profound transformation.” Current research seems to support the claim that a person's beliefs, sensory experience and thoughts can affect neurochemistry and, thus, impact outcomes. While not exactly an accepted scientific term, the “power of suggestion” is a confirmed psychological mechanism. Our subconscious can accept or reject input. From repressed childhood memories to self-help mantras, the input varies widely but what the subconscious accepts is what it responds to and thus acts on.
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POPSWhy Atheists are So Smart Thus when Christopher Hitchens and other atheists routinely dismiss religious claims on the grounds that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence," they are making what philosophers like to call a category mistake. We learn from Kant that within the domain of experience, human reason is sovereign, but it is in no way unreasonable to believe things on faith that simply cannot be adjudicated by reason. When atheists summarily dismiss the immortality of the soul or the afterlife on the grounds that they have never found any empirical proofs for either, they are asking for experiential evidence in a domain which is entirely beyond the reach of experience. In this domain, Kant argues, the absence of evidence cannot be used as the evidence for absence. Notice that Kant's argument is entirely secular: It does not employ any religious vocabulary, nor does it rely on any kind of faith.
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