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Scientific Knowledge and a New World-View

A collection of quotes from scientists and thinkers, on how to combine a scientific world-view with your daily life.

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twobarriers-01Intuition, Subliminal Perception and the Subconscious

Our subconscious knows more, sees more and hears more than we do. About Intuitions, Experiments Below the Awareness Threshold, and Free Will.

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DreamGeheimnisse einer Seele and Thinking Dreams

Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas.

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synabcCross-Talking, Colored Grapheme and Mental Chess

Second writeup on Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself”

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ErlkoenigNeuroplasticity, Supersenses and Reciting Poems

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences.

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rainWhite Noise, Oh So Lovely

Listening states and Stimulus vs. Deprivation When i walk down the street while listening to a podcast or music with my headphones on, i turn the volume of my mp3 player to almost the maximum of 30 out of 30, …

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James TurrellAmplify the Neural Noise

We live in constant search for patterns. Being able to recognize patterns is a survival instinct. If confronted with a lack of stimulus – lack of patterns – our brain invents a new reality – hallucinations, dreams. Ganzfeld Effect The …

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hugospiralsExperience the Senses and Floating

Hugo Kükelhaus One Station at the Experience field for the development of the senses: Summstein / Humming Stone Hugo Kükelhaus and his Experience field for the development of the senses Hugo Kükelhaus – architect, pedagogue and philosopher – researched and …

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Osm_Forest_Grid_400Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality

Char Davies creates immersive worlds that use visual and aural stimuli to create transcendental experiences and tries to evoke entirely new experiences of spatiality.

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mullerlyer-illusiaProposal: Meta (1)

We experience and interact with the world through a set of culturally and evolutionary taught ideas and beliefs. These worldviews are different from one person to the other – depending on language, religion or culture – and adapt over the …

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caThe Death of a Closed System

What if there was all this underlying complexity but no noise? Systems ready to react, change, adapt and compute – willing to show off their capabilities to self-organize, to create patterns, to make emergence happen – but they lie idle, …

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Gregorian CalendarDan Falk – In Search of Time

Time is a mystery. And the flow of time is an illusion. Possibly a construct of our minds. Possibly an emergent property of space.

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