Schrodinger's Zebra
And a dandelion dies in the wind
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Well this is a new one on me, and I thought it would be good for a thread on here. I couldn't find anything about this already so mods - apologies if there is a more suitable thread for it.
We were watching this video:
Which explains all about the brain's Predictive Models. Basically a person's brain develops models of how the world around it should be; I don't want to give too much away as I would encourage you to watch the video but the crucial thing is, and hence why I'm posting this, is that - according to this - your brain will dismiss things it sees, if they don't fit in with it's preconceived model of the current environment/situation.
This led me to thinking; does this have any bearing on why some people seem more able than others, to see paranormal phenomena?
Do their brains not have the same predictive models, and therefore allow 'abnormal' things to pass into the person's consciousness?
Whereas for anyone with let's call them 'strict' predictive models, anything bizarre would simply be filtered out by the brain, cast aside as "does not compute" before the person ever knows?
And if so, is there a way of freeing our brains from these predictions, to allow us to better experience more of the world around us?
We were watching this video:
Which explains all about the brain's Predictive Models. Basically a person's brain develops models of how the world around it should be; I don't want to give too much away as I would encourage you to watch the video but the crucial thing is, and hence why I'm posting this, is that - according to this - your brain will dismiss things it sees, if they don't fit in with it's preconceived model of the current environment/situation.
This led me to thinking; does this have any bearing on why some people seem more able than others, to see paranormal phenomena?
Do their brains not have the same predictive models, and therefore allow 'abnormal' things to pass into the person's consciousness?
Whereas for anyone with let's call them 'strict' predictive models, anything bizarre would simply be filtered out by the brain, cast aside as "does not compute" before the person ever knows?
And if so, is there a way of freeing our brains from these predictions, to allow us to better experience more of the world around us?