(08-10-2011, 01:39 PM)Pickle Wrote: The viewfinder experiment blew me away. That was yet another realization for me as to how the mind can modify what we perceive. That was a pretty awesome moment for me.
I look at how multiple witnesses to the same event will have "seen" something different. What they see tends to be largely influenced by previous experience which will be different for each of them.
So our perception seems to ride on previous experience, and when you peel all of that away back to the time of your birth, what were you able to perceive in the beginning?
Here is an article describing much of what we are now talking about (so what for on-topic?!) albeit in a trashy UK online newspaper. (Browser with Ad-block advised); http://goo.gl/ZhOYw
I cannot find it right now, but there has been very detailed research which shows that colour may not even exist, but that our minds create it 'on the fly'. It seems that the scientific perspective is showing the holographic nature of our seemingly solid universe. Personally, I love the way this and disclosure of other-family and their oh-so-easy technology is all being revealed little by little to awakening minds. When some shout, "When will disclosure happen?" my answer tends to be, "It already is happening".
Oh, and as to back to the beginning (recently after birth); such young minds see it all. I have watched that in action, and it is wonderful. The baby of a friend saw my 'invisible friends' and pointed to exactly where they were, and her slightly older child spoke to them, and turned to another wanderer and said with a lovely smile, "You are an alien!"