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mitch96

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3. Great article and vid.. .reminds me of an explanation of perception I once heard...

Reply to byronius (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 05:00 PM

Oct 2018

Lets say you tell your good friend that you just one the PowerBall lottery and your giving him 5 million dollars.. He is ECSTATIC!! All his financial worries are gone by the wayside. A new world has opened up... Then you tell him it's an April Fools joke and he is back to his old life with his old problems.. What has really changed?.. nothing but his perception of what happened.
The words created a conversation in his head that everything was going to change...
And the new words just brought him back to reality.... neat stuff...Trust but verify....
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The Neuroscience of Perception. [View all] byronius Oct 2018 OP

bookmarking dweller Oct 2018 #1

Cool post LunaSea Oct 2018 #2

Great article and vid.. .reminds me of an explanation of perception I once heard... mitch96 Oct 2018 #3

from a earlier link found here dweller Oct 2018 #4