How you really make decisions

[Constance]

Hello everyone :heart:

I was inspired to share this video called, How You Really Make Decisions made by BBC Horizon in 2016. I have shared this elsewhere but I feel it needs front and centre in these trying times.

There are some great takeaways to be found in this video but there was one part of the video that really stood out for me and it was around confirmation bias.

In this great video, there was an experiment carried out.

The subjects of the experiment involved a mixture of people, those who were trained intelligence assets and those who were novices. Both were asked to correctly identify who the terrorists were in a mock terrorist attack scenario.

The subjects were asked to thwart a terrorist attack upon a made-up city. They were asked to analyze a wealth of data from all sources such as social media, government agencies, emergency services and mobile phones.

When the subjects were finally asked to correctly identify the terrorists, eleven out of the twelve subjects gave the wrong answer. The eleven who incorrectly identified the terrorists were the trained intelligence assets. The only subject who correctly identified the terrorists was the novice.

What this experiment demonstrated was that experts can also be affected by confirmation bias.

The implications for this are enormous and effect every professional field within society.

However, what this video also highlights is that we are all subject to confirmation bias, purely because of our conditioning and programming.

I know that we all want to look at this unfolding situation with COVID 19-84 from every conceivable angle in order to put all the pieces of the puzzle together but how can we recognise our own confirmation biasses around subjects? And if so, how do we change that trajectory or how do we ensure that we can transcend these biasses?

My apologies in advance for the link. This was the only link I could find. The BBC have a worldwide copyright on this material.



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[Ernie Nemeth]

Thanks Constance. Informative video.

I see that I've been lead by a forward confirmation bias since I was about 17. Back then info was hard to come by, so I had to compile a file with pertinent data to my search for proof that science was moving down an intellectual dead end based on its own cognitive bias. Funny how I saw their bias but not my own. I have rejected much hard data because it did not fit my premise.

Risk aversion based on the perception of loss is an interesting concept that probably lead to me finally deciding to quit the money game entirely, and is in part why I have so little regard for money at all. 'It doesn't work for me so why bother even trying', type thinking brought about by repeated losses over decades.

Not sure what I can do about it since the video makes the claim that such illogical, type1 thinking is innate and has probably been with us for many millions of years, since our ancestors were monkeys themselves, if we give them the benefit of the doubt about our lineage.

[Constance]

Why do we believe things that aren't true?

"...In the nineteen eighties, a pyschologist named Thomas Landeau set out to estimate the size of an individuals knowledge base in bytes. The same scale that is used to measure computer memory. One approach he took was to analyse the result of memory experiments, where people are asked to study some pictures or words or bits of music, then later tested to see if they recognised them. Using the data, he was able to estimate the rate at which we acquire knowledge and also the rate at which we forget what we learned and then, he extrapolated to a seventy year life span. So, how much do you know? Landeau's estimate... one gigabyte..."

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When I consider this, it is very humbling indeed and I have to consider that I may not have all the pieces of the puzzle to any given situation I find myself in, or in relation to another person.


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[Gemma13]

Hello everyone :heart:

I was inspired to share this video called, How You Really Make Decisions made by BBC Horizon in 2016. I have shared this elsewhere but I feel it needs front and centre in these trying times.

There are some great takeaways to be found in this video but there was one part of the video that really stood out for me and it was around confirmation bias.

In this great video, there was an experiment carried out.

The subjects of the experiment involved a mixture of people, those who were trained intelligence assets and those who were novices. Both were asked to correctly identify who the terrorists were in a mock terrorist attack scenario.

The subjects were asked to thwart a terrorist attack upon a made-up city. They were asked to analyze a wealth of data from all sources such as social media, government agencies, emergency services and mobile phones.

When the subjects were finally asked to correctly identify the terrorists, eleven out of the twelve subjects gave the wrong answer. The eleven who incorrectly identified the terrorists were the trained intelligence assets. The only subject who correctly identified the terrorists was the novice.

What this experiment demonstrated was that experts can also be affected by confirmation bias.

The implications for this are enormous and effect every professional field within society.

However, what this video also highlights is that we are all subject to confirmation bias, purely because of our conditioning and programming.

I know that we all want to look at this unfolding situation with COVID 19-84 from every conceivable angle in order to put all the pieces of the puzzle together but how can we recognise our own confirmation biasses around subjects? And if so, how do we change that trajectory or how do we ensure that we can transcend these biasses?

My apologies in advance for the link. This was the only link I could find. The BBC have a worldwide copyright on this material.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3q4alx?retry

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The Confirmation Bias Experiment is @30:30 - 39:45.

Trained and novice analysts are deliberately set up and tested for confirmation bias in a simulated event.

1 (novice) out of 12 analysists didn't succumb to confirmation bias.

What's further interesting is the supervisor being able to monitor when bias kicks in by analysing the analyists.

So there are ways confirmation bias can be minimalised in professional environments.  But for us we just gotta keep reminding ourselves to always look at oppositional data when making choices and decisions.

[Constance]

Would you know if you were being manipulated? I ask this rhetorical question because most people would like to think that they are beyond manipulation or mind control.

In this very telling experiment with Derren Brown, we can see how easily these two advertising executives were duped using a technique called NLP.

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[Constance]

What if you are not making the decisions yourself, what if it is the bugs in your guts/brain calling the shots?

In this animated video, we see how parasites change their hosts behaviours. Enjoy :)

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[Constance]

This clip is hilarious because Simon Peggs is such a good sport but it is so seriously telling!

NLP used in a positive way can have amazing results on influencing the mind but what if it was used against you, say on the TV, or the radio or by politicians who are skilled in this kind of subtle programming?

When it comes to being convinced about what you want, and why you want it, this is so very revealing about how your mind can be changed so very quickly with a skillful play on words and an offering.



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[Constance]

Are you really able to trust your ears and the things they hear?

What you hear may depend on what you are looking at.

In this interactive video, the presenter talks about the McGurk effect, The Tritone paradox and the Shepard tone illusion.

Have fun with it! :)

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[Constance]

The Backwards Brain Bicycle

In this delightful video, Destin takes you on a journey with him as he explores what it means to be able to ride a backwards bicycle. This eight month experiment however proved to be a little more revealing and insightful than he ever bargained for. :bigsmile:

During the course of the experiment, Destin had three very profound realisations around how he/we interpret the world. One of the questions that was raised by him was, can we ever be free of our biases? :happy dog:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=438&v=MFzDaBzBlL0

[Constance]

Freewill and the brain

I know that I have posted this elsewhere on the forum but this is the perfect place to post it once again. For those who haven't seen this excellent talk between Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist at Stanford University and actor Alan Alda, this is an earnest discussion centred around the brain and the law.

The first five minutes of the conversation begins with Robert sharing that whenever we are making any moral decisions or moral judgements that these are actually post hoc justifications for things that subliminally, our brains knew long before we consciously headed in that direction.

Our capacity to regulate our behaviours as adults begins with the health and wellbeing of our frontal cortex. The thickness and development of our frontal cortex is determined by two factors. The first being the health and the wellbeing of the mother whilst we are inutero, and the second being parental and environmental influences in early childhood.

Robert says that the term 'responsibility' almost becomes irrelevant if someone cannot regulate their behaviours due to an undeveloped frontal cortex. He implies that you cannot make someone responsible if they cannot regulate their behavior any more than you could hold someone responsible for something that they had nothing to do with the making of, eg. the shape of their cheekbones.

He went on to say that it doesn't change in the slightest, the need to protect people from those who cannot regulate themselves, the need to protect the offenders themselves or the need for deterrents but what has to be completely removed from the table are concepts like evil, or the types of brain damage where somebody can tell you precisely what is the appropriate behaviour to do eg. the solving of a puzzle or what you should or shouldn't do to your fellow human and yet they can't regulate their behaviour. These things need to be taken into account.

Robert postulated that it is absurd to frame the criminal justice system in a world of volition and of blame and of souls. Alan then asks the question, when you have a body of law that assigns guilt, punishment, do you go all the way back in your thinking to not just how cases are settled in court, but how the laws need to be rewritten to take into account the fact it's not right or fair to put people in jail for things that they didn't decide to do?

and Robert responds by saying

It needs to be torn apart from top to bottom - which is not meaning that we do not have to restrain people - a car whose brakes are broken is a very dangerous machine and we have a societal responsibility to make sure it doesn't go rolling into the playground of preschool but the car is not sinful if its brakes failed...



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[gord]

The Backwards Brain Bicycle

In this delightful video, Destin takes you on a journey with him as he explores what it means to be able to ride a backwards bicycle. This eight month experiment however proved to be a little more revealing and insightful than he ever bargained for. :bigsmile:

During the course of the experiment, Destin had three very profound realisations around how he/we interpret the world. One of the questions that was raised by him was, can we ever be free of our biases? :happy dog:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=438&v=MFzDaBzBlL0

When I was about 12 or so, I reversed the crank and rear wheel on a bicycle so that the chain was on the left, and you could sit on it facing forwards, but pedal backwards, and go backwards. It took about 2 weeks to learn how to ride it that way. I rode it that way for a few weeks, and then put it back together the normal way. I think learning reversed steering would be harder.

[Constance]

This experiment that Derren Brown did in relation to group think/mob mentality is so very telling. I won't share what happens in this video, you need to see how it all unfolds because the message comes right at the end. :waving:



Derren Brown: Remote Control | Derren Brown's The Experiment



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[Constance]

Tony Wright, Author of Return to the Brain of Eden: Restoring the Connection between Neurochemistry and Consciousness has a very fascinating and unique hypothesis to share.

Tony's background is a botanist but around 25 years ago, he began to ask some serious questions around whether our perceptional system and equipment is actually functioning. He has been researching and testing the data for over 25 years now and all the data he has collected all points to the hypothesis that there has been a de-evolution of mankind.

He asks us to consider, no matter how radical the theory, this side of the story because it may be linked to how we have as a society have become so brainwashed and controlled.

He questions whether the most extraordinary complex biochemical formula we know actually equals the most extraordinary complex system that we know. And how would we be able to tell if this system was actually functioning?

He also asks some very important questions here

What was our original design?
What materials were we built from?
What fuel did we require?

Tony's hypothesis is that

our original design changed
our building material changed
our fuel changed

and within this hypothesis he says that the left hemisphere of our brain is a damaged version of the right.
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For more information around what he is sharing, here is another talk that gives you a more rounded idea of where his theories have come from and how it might explain how sociopaths and psychopaths are born or created.

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[Gracy]

The Backwards Brain Bicycle

In this delightful video, Destin takes you on a journey with him as he explores what it means to be able to ride a backwards bicycle. This eight month experiment however proved to be a little more revealing and insightful than he ever bargained for. :bigsmile:

During the course of the experiment, Destin had three very profound realisations around how he/we interpret the world. One of the questions that was raised by him was, can we ever be free of our biases? :happy dog:

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That was both fun and interesting Constance! It's one of those things where it LOOKS easy enough, but surely I'd wreck all over the place just like the rest of them.

As to his question. Yes, I think we can to a certain extent anyway, but just like riding that backwards bike it takes one hell of a lot of work and practice. I wonder what % of the average person on the street even ever has a thought like that in the first place?

I started doing something kinda like his bike thing probably 10+ years ago now, but on a much much smaller and simpler scale. Being right handed, it occurred to me one day to start making a point of using my left hand much more often with all the daily mundane things that the right just does automatically. From washing dishes, scrambling an egg, or using a screwdriver. Difficult to tell if it's had any effect in the overall way I go about thinking of things, but it's definitely a new neural pathway forged, even though the old one and the body memory still balks at it from time to time.

It's probably just a useless exercise, with no more effect than making my left hand more coordinated, but I still like to think it's keeping the old brain on it's toes a bit where it otherwise wouldn't have been.

Here's a question I have now, and it's not just about the bike. What if you didn't want to lose the old way of riding a traditional bike, while also mastering the backwards bike, can the brain ever be rewired yet also stay where it is, to the point where a person can smoothly ride back and forth between the two?

As a new neural pathway like that is forged, I suppose the brain naturally assumes the original is no longer needed. Ha, that might make a very confused brain indeed. "Hey, you don't need both dummy, choose!" :wacko2:

[gord]

This experiment that Derren Brown did in relation to group think/mob mentality is so very telling. I won't share what happens in this video, you need to see how it all unfolds because the message comes right at the end. :waving:



Derren Brown: Remote Control | Derren Brown's The Experiment



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Constance, you have some very fine threads going right now, and I hope my following comment is appropriate for this thread.

These Derren Brown videos are excellent. I watched a lot of them about 6 or 7 years ago. I found “The Assassin”, “How to convert an atheist”, and “Conversational Hypnosis” particularly interesting. I suspect many people see his videos as merely entertainment, and if that’s the case, it would be a real shame, because it’s quite clear to me that all of this bit of science was weaponized against everyone centuries ago. After all, the whole purpose of the state sponsored terrorism and false flags that we’ve all seen so much of is to hypnotize people and make them accept what they would normally refuse.

Years ago I listened to a bunch of interviews by Jon Rappaport of a hypnotherapist named Jack True, who stated that he eventually realized that every client he ever had, arrived already hypnotized, and his job was to attempt to undo it.

At the moment, I’m reading a book by The Rogue Hypnotist (Mark Anthony) called “Escaping Cultural Hypnosis - Startling Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist!”. Here’s a bit of the introduction (all emphasis in the original):


Introduction: ‘Cultural hypnosis’ – what it is, why you should care.

What is a ‘hypnotic reality’?

First off – you need to know what a ‘hypnotic reality’ is. Reality (material reality) that is, is that which we perceive with the 5 major senses and all the other little ones. It is that which we can verify by our senses: the physical matrix into which we enter/emerge etc. at conception. A hypnotic reality is any ‘pseudo reality’ (secondary reality) that exists in the mind of an individual or groups of individuals only: it has no supporting proof; it is founded on ideas and not experience. It consists of a ‘map of reality’ – these are all the bits of data, memory, bias, life experiences, sets of generalisations, unquestioned assumptions, opinions about x, y and z that we have about the true external physical matrix. Its psycho-biological purpose is to help us successfully navigate our way through the human life cycle. This map of reality may be ‘realistic’, that is a pretty accurate representation of external reality or it may be widely at variance with the physical matrix reality (what religions call ‘Creation’). We see the latter most markedly in brainwashed victims of ‘cults’. Such people are only very loosely connected to reality – in fact they are in a permanent state of dissociated waking hypnosis: fuelled by primarily unconscious Gnostic delusions. We will expand upon this matter later. To a certain extent as humans, and because we are limited by our senses to a certain ‘band width’ of experience and are therefore physiologically incapable of omnipotence, we all operate from an approximation of the reality of reality – known as the middle spectrum/band. And most of us get along fine with that. Or do we? 

Cultural hypnosis defined.

Quite simply cultural hypnosis may be defined in this manner: cultural hypnosis is a catch-all term that covers the mass of influence from a wide range of people, institutions and situations that each human being is effected by from the moment of conception till death within a given, definable and limited culture matrix. 

Less euphemistically cultural hypnosis is aka PROGRAMMING! 

So what? Well did you choose to be immersed in it? Did you have any say in this influence? There but for fortune you may be an entirely different person, even with the same genetics because we know from epigenetics (the science of gene expression) that all incoming ‘data’, food, locale, people, accents, schooling, exposure to the arts etc. powerfully affect who we are and how our genes express themselves in this physical matrix. Any persons or groups that can seize control of the culture creation industries in the widest sense of that term can and in fact do shape its respective citizenry as and how it pleases. Do you see why this is an important yet untouched upon sphere of enquiry? The culture creation industries can powerfully shape anyone’s map of reality, a kind of internal ‘holographic matrix’ that we all operate from. If this doesn’t concern you yet, I assure you by this book’s end it will. But relax – the situation is not all hopeless. As I have hinted, you have a powerful weapon: your analytical conscious mind. Hypnotists often have a mistaken bias against conscious states: in fact we would be zombies without them. 

What are the predominate sources of hypnotic culture in any given society and how do they shape us? How do they create the trances we live by? Just before we get to that, we must define the purpose of knowing about it at all… 

Commonly attributed to Mark Twain (maybe so, maybe not):

“It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain

Trying to convince people of any of this is a threat to their egos, and many will immediately turn into a blindfolded terrible two-year old version of Yosemite Sam, with unlimited ammo, and an itchy trigger finger if you try. --me

[Constance]

Thanks for that question Gracy May and your personal story. I'm glad you enjoyed that video! :heart:

To the best of my knowledge, if we continue to nurture, nourish and strengthen those neurological pathways, we could eventually master the ability to switch back and forth between the two ways of riding the bike effortlessly :happythumbsup:

All it really takes is persistence and a consistent approach.

I was talking to a close friend about this yesterday and what I shared was, when a baby learns to walk, there are a whole bunch of steps that have to happen before it can actually walk. A babies brain has to go about building and strengthening its neurological pathways in the leadup to being able to walk. They just don't get up like a giraffe or a horse does in the first five minutes after birth because neurologically, we are just not wired that way.

As you may already be aware Gracy, the first thing a baby does on its developmental path to walking is to be able to hold its head up firmly, without it sagging. The next step is to be able to wave its little arms and legs around in the air. It may not look like much but it is building the foundation for wiring its brain in such a way that it is eventually going to walk!

The next step in its development is when a baby starts to learn to roll. It takes a while to get there because at first, it doesn't have any control over the mechanism that helps a baby to roll, but it continues to do just that one thing.

Babies are fantastic and fascinating teachers. When a baby cannot yet roll, it might just lay there for a minute or two but then, it will try again and again until it masters that step.

The next step after that is pulling its little body up by its arms and then before you know it, he or she is sitting up. The number of times I watched my son try to sit up and then fall back was both hilarious and enlightening. He was so focused on learning to sit up. There was a unrelenting attention to just that one thing and that one thing only.

And then..a baby learns to push itself up on all fours and crawl. And then crawl and crawl for a while before it pulls itself up to stand. That takes some mastering, as you might well know. Parents reading this might well be able to relate to the phenomena of never having any clean clothing or furniture because their children need a leverage tool to pull themselves up on to stand.

And as that baby starts to skirt their way around the furniture, they then learn to climb that furniture. And then, once they have mastered that, they take their first wobbly steps with some guidance.

That baby falls down a lot whilst it is still learning to walk but it all happens very organically without the baby having to do too much except persist. It is that persistence and consistency that actually helps that baby to keep moving in the direction that it needs to, to develop the ability to walk.

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That was both fun and interesting Constance! It's one of those things where it LOOKS easy enough, but surely I'd wreck all over the place just like the rest of them.

As to his question. Yes, I think we can to a certain extent anyway, but just like riding that backwards bike it takes one hell of a lot of work and practice. I wonder what % of the average person on the street even ever has a thought like that in the first place?

I started doing something kinda like his bike thing probably 10+ years ago now, but on a much much smaller and simpler scale. Being right handed, it occurred to me one day to start making a point of using my left hand much more often with all the daily mundane things that the right just does automatically. From washing dishes, scrambling an egg, or using a screwdriver. Difficult to tell if it's had any effect in the overall way I go about thinking of things, but it's definitely a new neural pathway forged, even though the old one and the body memory still balks at it from time to time.

It's probably just a useless exercise, with no more effect than making my left hand more coordinated, but I still like to think it's keeping the old brain on it's toes a bit where it otherwise wouldn't have been.

Here's a question I have now, and it's not just about the bike. What if you didn't want to lose the old way of riding a traditional bike, while also mastering the backwards bike, can the brain ever be rewired yet also stay where it is, to the point where a person can smoothly ride back and forth between the two?

As a new neural pathway like that is forged, I suppose the brain naturally assumes the original is no longer needed. Ha, that might make a very confused brain indeed. "Hey, you don't need both dummy, choose!" :wacko2:

[kfm27917]

I like the way your mind works !!!

[Constance]

Gord, I really like the way you think and your comments were more than appropriate for this thread :clapping: :heart:

Just like yourself, I have found many of Derrens videos very insightful and instructive on how we as individuals and a collective can be conditioned and programmed.

You must be a bit of a mind reader because my next video was going to be "The Assassin" :bigsmile:

You are right about it not being just entertainment. And it is a darn shame that the masses watching would see it that way.

The issue that we have in society is where people can literally only see or hear something in one way and they are unable to shift their perception. (And I'm sure you have experienced more than enough of that with other people)

Take this Laurel or Yanni video for example

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Some people hear Laurel, others hear Yanni. A good percentage hear Laurel but there are many who also hear Yanni.
There may be quite a few explanations for why this is occurring and this video outlines a few of them here
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but I don't think this is the entire story. I think that our ability to perceive lays within how neurologically integrated we are on all levels of our beings.

Mind you, this is not through any fault of our own. We all know here on Avalon exactly what we are up against; there has been no stone left unturned by the powers that be.

I was thinking about what you said here about Jack True's clients and how he eventually realized that every client he ever had, arrived already hypnotised, and his job was to attempt to undo it.

It has been said to me many times and in many ways that the further we move away from nature, the further we move away from our natural state of being.

I'm not sure what Jack was attempting to undo for people but I would say that it is more a matter of putting back what is missing from our lives.

I don't know if you have ever watched this video Gord, but if you feel so inspired, it is a video by Gabor Mate called, "Hold onto your kids"

In this video, Gabor relates how and why it is so important that the parent has more influence over the child than its peers and why children grow into immature adults.

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Constance, you have some very fine threads going right now, and I hope my following comment is appropriate for this thread.

These Derren Brown videos are excellent. I watched a lot of them about 6 or 7 years ago. I found “The Assassin”, “How to convert an atheist”, and “Conversational Hypnosis” particularly interesting. I suspect many people see his videos as merely entertainment, and if that’s the case, it would be a real shame, because it’s quite clear to me that all of this bit of science was weaponized against everyone centuries ago. After all, the whole purpose of the state sponsored terrorism and false flags that we’ve all seen so much of is to hypnotize people and make them accept what they would normally refuse.

Years ago I listened to a bunch of interviews by Jon Rappaport of a hypnotherapist named Jack True, who stated that he eventually realized that every client he ever had, arrived already hypnotized, and his job was to attempt to undo it.

At the moment, I’m reading a book by The Rogue Hypnotist (Mark Anthony) called “Escaping Cultural Hypnosis - Startling Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist!”. Here’s a bit of the introduction (all emphasis in the original):


Introduction: ‘Cultural hypnosis’ – what it is, why you should care.

What is a ‘hypnotic reality’?

First off – you need to know what a ‘hypnotic reality’ is. Reality (material reality) that is, is that which we perceive with the 5 major senses and all the other little ones. It is that which we can verify by our senses: the physical matrix into which we enter/emerge etc. at conception. A hypnotic reality is any ‘pseudo reality’ (secondary reality) that exists in the mind of an individual or groups of individuals only: it has no supporting proof; it is founded on ideas and not experience. It consists of a ‘map of reality’ – these are all the bits of data, memory, bias, life experiences, sets of generalisations, unquestioned assumptions, opinions about x, y and z that we have about the true external physical matrix. Its psycho-biological purpose is to help us successfully navigate our way through the human life cycle. This map of reality may be ‘realistic’, that is a pretty accurate representation of external reality or it may be widely at variance with the physical matrix reality (what religions call ‘Creation’). We see the latter most markedly in brainwashed victims of ‘cults’. Such people are only very loosely connected to reality – in fact they are in a permanent state of dissociated waking hypnosis: fuelled by primarily unconscious Gnostic delusions. We will expand upon this matter later. To a certain extent as humans, and because we are limited by our senses to a certain ‘band width’ of experience and are therefore physiologically incapable of omnipotence, we all operate from an approximation of the reality of reality – known as the middle spectrum/band. And most of us get along fine with that. Or do we? 

Cultural hypnosis defined.

Quite simply cultural hypnosis may be defined in this manner: cultural hypnosis is a catch-all term that covers the mass of influence from a wide range of people, institutions and situations that each human being is effected by from the moment of conception till death within a given, definable and limited culture matrix. 

Less euphemistically cultural hypnosis is aka PROGRAMMING! 

So what? Well did you choose to be immersed in it? Did you have any say in this influence? There but for fortune you may be an entirely different person, even with the same genetics because we know from epigenetics (the science of gene expression) that all incoming ‘data’, food, locale, people, accents, schooling, exposure to the arts etc. powerfully affect who we are and how our genes express themselves in this physical matrix. Any persons or groups that can seize control of the culture creation industries in the widest sense of that term can and in fact do shape its respective citizenry as and how it pleases. Do you see why this is an important yet untouched upon sphere of enquiry? The culture creation industries can powerfully shape anyone’s map of reality, a kind of internal ‘holographic matrix’ that we all operate from. If this doesn’t concern you yet, I assure you by this book’s end it will. But relax – the situation is not all hopeless. As I have hinted, you have a powerful weapon: your analytical conscious mind. Hypnotists often have a mistaken bias against conscious states: in fact we would be zombies without them. 

What are the predominate sources of hypnotic culture in any given society and how do they shape us? How do they create the trances we live by? Just before we get to that, we must define the purpose of knowing about it at all… 

Commonly attributed to Mark Twain (maybe so, maybe not):

“It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain

Trying to convince people of any of this is a threat to their egos, and many will immediately turn into a blindfolded terrible two-year old version of Yosemite Sam, with unlimited ammo, and an itchy trigger finger if you try. --me

[Constance]

I like the way your mind works !!!

Are you talking to me kfm27917? :bigsmile:

:heart::flower:

[kfm27917]

yes: I believe U opened an interesting subject !
I am into Chaos Magick and I define magick as being able to change reality with one;s mind.
So this thread is extremely interesting to me !

[Constance]

yes: I believe U opened an interesting subject !
I am into Chaos Magick and I define magick as being able to change reality with one;s mind.
So this thread is extremely interesting to me !

Why thank you kfm27917. It was so kind of you to say so. :flower:

I'm not 100% sure what Chaos Magick is but it sounds like you are having fun with it!

:heart:

[Constance]

Are kids less biased than adults?

On the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in April of '68, in the little town of Riceville Iowa, a teacher by the name of Jane Elliott, who had been talking to, and teaching her third grade students about racism, decided to try an experiment with her little third graders. The experiment was all about prejudice.

Can one teacher in one day, change the lives of her students forever?

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[Constance]

A little while ago, when out walking with a close friend, I had this huge realisation that the only place that we are not subject to any kind of influence is in the most wild and untamed parts of nature. :heart:





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Derren Brown Brainwashes an Entire Shopping Mall

[Constance]

They'll have to rewrite the textbooks




It’s a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching: researchers at the School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. “I really did not believe there were structures in the body that we were not aware of. I thought the body was mapped,” said Jonathan Kipnis, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and director of the University’s Center for Brain Immunology and Glia. How these vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own.

But the true significance of the discovery lies in its ramifications for the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer’s disease to multiple sclerosis. Kipnis said researchers no longer need to ask questions such as, “How do we study the immune response of the brain?” or “Why do multiple sclerosis patients have immune system attacks?” “Now we can approach this mechanistically - because the brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,” Kipnis said. “We believe that for every neurological disease that has an immune component to it, these vessels may play a major role.” Kevin Lee, who chairs the Department of Neuroscience, recalled his reaction the first time researchers in Kipnis’ lab shared their basic result with him.

“I just said one sentence: ‘They’ll have to rewrite the textbooks.’ There has never been a lymphatic system for the central nervous system, and it was very clear from that first singular observation - and they’ve done many studies since then to bolster the finding - that it will fundamentally change the way people look at the central nervous system’s relationship with the immune system,” Lee said.


Update:
New Role Found For The Immune System
In a paper published in July 2016, UVA researchers determined that the immune system affects - and even controls - social behavior. Their discovery could profoundly affect treatment of several neurological disorders such as diseases such as autism-spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. The relationship between people and pathogens, the researchers suggest, could have directly affected the development of our social behavior, allowing us to engage in the social interactions necessary for the survival of the species while developing ways for our immune systems to protect us from the diseases that accompany those interactions. MORE

The discovery was made possible by the work of Antoine Louveau, a postdoctoral fellow in Kipnis’ lab. The vessels were detected after Louveau developed a method to mount a mouse’s meninges - the membranes covering the brain - on a single slide so that they could be examined as a whole. After noticing vessel-like patterns in the distribution of immune cells on his slides, he tested for lymphatic vessels and there they were. The impossible existed. “Live imaging of these vessels was crucial to demonstrate their function, and it would not be possible without collaboration with Tajie Harris,” Kipnis noted. Harris is an assistant professor of neuroscience and a member of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia. Kipnis also saluted the “phenomenal” surgical skills of Igor Smirnov, a research associate in the Kipnis lab whose work was critical to the imaging success of the study.


The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it. For example, take Alzheimer’s disease. “In Alzheimer’s, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain,” Kipnis said. “We think they may be accumulating in the brain because they’re not being efficiently removed by these vessels.” He noted that the vessels look different with age, so the role they play in aging is another avenue to explore. And there’s an enormous array of other neurological diseases, from autism to multiple sclerosis, that must be reconsidered in light of the presence of something science insisted did not exist.



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UVA Researchers Find Link Between Brain and Immune System

Source: news.virginia.edu (https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-rewrite-textbooks?utm_content=buffer7ef5c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

[Constance]

The 18 origins and sources of thoughts

And why we are what we eat whilst we think. :heart::flower::dancing:

This brings everything together.




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[Constance]

Single Species of Gut Bacteria Can Reverse Autism Related Social Behavior: Mouse Study

Summary: Researchers culture a strain of Lactobacillus reuteri from human breast milk and introduced it to mice. They discovered treatment with this bacterial strain appeared to rescue social behaviors.





The absence of a one specific species of gut bacteria causes social deficits in mice, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report June 16, 2016 in Cell. By adding this bacteria species back to the guts of affected mice, the researchers were able to reverse some of their behavioral deficits, which are reminiscent of symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in humans. The investigators are now looking to explore the effects of probiotics on neurodevelopmental disorders in future work.

“Other research groups are trying to use drugs or electrical brain stimulation as a way to reverse some of the behavioral symptoms associated with neurodevelopmental disorders - but here we have, perhaps, a new approach,” says senior author Mauro Costa-Mattioli, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine. “Whether it would be effective in humans, we don’t know yet, but it is an extremely exciting way of affecting the brain from the gut.”

Diagram shows how dysbiosis causes the autism like behavior in mice.
Buffington next tested whether the specific differences in the microbiome were causative factors underlying the social impairments in offspring of mothers fed a high-fat diet. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Costa-Mattioli et al./Cell Press.
The inspiration for the paper came from human epidemiological studies that have found that maternal obesity during pregnancy could increase children’s risk of developing neurodevelopmental disorders, including ASDs. In addition, some individuals with ASD also report recurring gastrointestinal problems. With emerging research showing how diet can change the gut microbiome and how gut microbes can influence the brain, Costa-Mattioli and his co-authors suspected there could be a connection.

To begin, the researchers fed approximately 60 female mice a high-fat diet that was the rough equivalent of consistently eating fast food multiple times a day. They bred the mice daily and waited for them to bear young. The offspring stayed with their mother for three weeks and then were weaned onto a normal diet. After a month, these offspring showed behavioral deficits, such as spending less time in contact with their peers and not initiating interactions.

“First we wanted to see if there was a difference in the microbiome between the offspring of mouse mothers fed a normal diet versus those of mothers fed a high-fat diet. So, we used 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to determine the bacterial composition of their gut. We found a clear difference in the microbiota of the two maternal diet groups,” says first author Shelly Buffington, a postdoctoral fellow in Costa-Mattioli’s lab. “The sequencing data was so consistent that by looking at the microbiome of an individual mouse we could predict whether its behavior would be impaired.”

Buffington next tested whether the specific differences in the microbiome were causative factors underlying the social impairments in offspring of mothers fed a high-fat diet. Because mice eat each other’s poop, the researchers housed the animals together so that they would acquire microbiota from their cagemates. When socially impaired three-week-old mice born to mothers on a high-fat diet were paired with normal mice, a full restoration of the gut microbiome and a concurrent improvement in behavior was observed within four weeks. The investigators concluded that one or more beneficial bacterial species might be important for normal social behavior. Fecal-transplant experiments in mice without microbiota (germ-free mice) provided causal evidence that an imbalanced microbial ecology in the mice born to mothers on a high-fat diet is responsible for their social deficits.

The investigators next wanted to know the specific bacterial species that could be affecting the social behavior of the mice. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing revealed one type of bacteria, Lactobacillus reuteri, which was reduced more than nine-fold in the microbiome of mice born to mothers on the high-fat diet.

“We cultured a strain of Lactobacillus (L.) reuteri originally isolated from human breast milk and introduced it into the water of the high-fat-diet offspring. We found that treatment with this single bacterial strain was able to rescue their social behavior,” Buffington says. Other ASD-related behaviors, such as anxiety, were not restored by the reconstitution of the bacteria. Interestingly, the authors found that L. reuteri also promoted the production of the “bonding hormone” oxytocin, which is known to play a crucial role in social behavior and has been associated with autism in humans.

Can mom’s diet during pregnancy impact offspring social behavior? In this video, Mauro Costa-Mattioli and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine describe a potential link between mouse maternal diet-induced changes in the gut microbiome and autism-like social behavior in offspring.

The authors wondered whether the reward circuitry in the socially impaired mice was dysfunctional. “We found that in response to social interaction there was a lack of synaptic potentiation in a key reward area of the brain that could be seen in the normal control mice,” Costa-Mattiol says. “When we put the bacteria back in the maternal-high-fat-diet offspring, we could also restore the changes in synaptic function in the reward circuitry.”

The researchers believe that their work, which uses a human bacteria species to promote oxytocin levels and improve social behavioral deficits in deficient mice, could be explored as a probiotic intervention for the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans. “This is where the science is unexpectedly leading us. We could potentially see this type of approach developing quite quickly not only for the treatment of ASD but also for other neurodevelopmental disorders; anyway, this is my gut feeling,” Costa-Mattioli says.


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Diet, the Microbiome, and Autism

Source: neurosciencenews.com (https://neurosciencenews.com/autism-behavior-gut-bacteria-4493/)

[Constance]

Mind-altering microbes: how the microbiome affects brain and behavior

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The vagus nerve contacts the gut lining, and extends all the way up to the brain stem itself. And this is the mechanism by which the bacterium called Lactobacillus rhamnosus effects depressive like behaviour in mice. In a task that measure depression like despair, mice that have been treated with this bug, exhibit less depressive-like symptoms and this is not seen if the vagus nerve is not severed.


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Mind-altering microbes: how the microbiome affects brain and behavior: Elaine Hsiao at TEDxCaltech

[Constance]

I've shared this work by Bonnie Bassler on another thread here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91913-BLACK-MOLD-symptoms-remedies-treatment-elimination&p=1291751&viewfull=1#post1291751)called How bacteria communicate.
This might also be helpful in bringing together how our microbiome affects our behaviour.:flower::heart:

[Constance]

Food for thought: How your belly controls your brain

This video is an affirmation of Bonnie Basslers work above, How bacteria communicate and ties in with link #6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110875-How-You-Really-Make-Decisions-and-the-confirmation-bias-affect&p=1359774&viewfull=1#post1359774), How parasites change their hosts behaviours.

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Food for thought: How your belly controls your brain | Ruairi Robertson | TEDxFulbrightSantaMonica

[Constance]

A brain parasite might be making us angrier.

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Toxoplasma gondii Infection:

Relationship With Aggression in Psychiatric Subjects




Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a highly successful neurotropic protozoan parasite, infecting any warm-blooded animal including approximately one-third of all humans. Within the animal world, felids have been identified as the definitive host of T. gondii that localizes only in the gastrointestinal tract of any member of the cat family. Humans may be infected by T. gondii via ingestion of the parasite’s oocysts, which can spread from the feces of infected cats. Other routes of transmission include consumption of undercooked meat that has been infected with T. gondii cysts or ingestion of contaminated water; congenital infection, occurring if a mother has a primary infection during pregnancy and transmits T. gondii to the fetus, is relatively rare. Postnatal chronic “latent” infection is very common, minimally symptomatic in the immune competent host, and with an encephalitic picture in the immunocompromised.When ingested by an intermediate host, the parasite uses leukocytes to travel from the intestine to other organs, finally localizing in muscle and brain. Once in the brain, T. gondii hides within neurons and glial cells, forming characteristic cystic intracellular structures under the pressure of the immune system.5 Although it is thought to be relatively harmless in immunocompetent adults, latent toxoplasmosis has been linked to several psychiatric disorders (eg, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorders) and with suicidal behavior.

Read on (https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/article/pages/2016/v77n03/v77n0313.aspx)...

[Constance]

We have to consider that exposure to environmental toxins are affecting our behaviours at the most subtle levels. Until we can fully awaken to all of the subtle elements that are affecting our very thoughts/feelings/behaviours, and until we are ready, willing, able, capable and have the capacity to deal with every aspect effecting our beings (see Brian Gerard Schaefers (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/briangerardschaefer/) work) we cannot take ourselves seriously or personally. It also helps us to see where others are at and we can witness less than ideal behaviours with silent compassion. :heart:

Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity




Disorders of neurobehavioural development affect 10–15% of all births, and prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder seem to be increasing worldwide. Subclinical decrements in brain function are even more common than these neurobehavioural developmental disorders. All these disabilities can have severe consequences—they diminish quality of life, reduce academic achievement, and disturb behaviour, with profound consequences for the welfare and productivity of entire societies.
The root causes of the present global pandemic of neurodevelopmental disorders are only partly understood. Although genetic factors have a role, they cannot explain recent increases in reported prevalence, and none of the genes discovered so far seem to be responsible for more than a small proportion of cases. Overall, genetic factors seem to account for no more than perhaps 30–40% of all cases of neurodevelopmental disorders. Thus, non-genetic, environmental exposures are involved in causation, in some cases probably by interacting with genetically inherited predispositions.
Strong evidence exists that industrial chemicals widely disseminated in the environment are important contributors to what we have called the global, silent pandemic of neurodevelopmental toxicity. The developing human brain is uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and major windows of developmental vulnerability occur in utero and during infancy and early childhood. During these sensitive life stages, chemicals can cause permanent brain injury at low levels of exposure that would have little or no adverse effect in an adult.
In 2006, we did a systematic review of the published clinical and epidemiological studies into the neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals, with a focus on developmental neurotoxicity. We identified five industrial chemicals that could be reliably classified as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyls, and toluene. We also noted 201 chemicals that had been reported to cause injury to the nervous system in adults, mostly in connection with occupational exposures, poisoning incidents, or suicide attempts. Additionally, more than 1000 chemicals have been reported to be neurotoxic in animals in laboratory studies.

We noted that recognition of the risks of industrial chemicals to brain development has historically needed decades of research and scrutiny, as shown in the cases of lead and methylmercury. In most cases, discovery began with clinical diagnosis of poisoning in workers and episodes of high-dose exposure. More sophisticated epidemiological studies typically began only much later. Results from such studies documented developmental neurotoxicity at much lower exposure levels than had previously been thought to be safe. Thus, recognition of widespread subclinical toxicity often did not occur until decades after the initial evidence of neurotoxicity. A recurring theme was that early warnings of subclinical neurotoxicity were often ignored or even dismissed.David P Rall, former Director of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, once noted that “if thalidomide had caused a ten-point loss of intelligence quotient (IQ) instead of obvious birth defects of the limbs, it would probably still be on the market”. Many industrial chemicals marketed at present probably cause IQ deficits of far fewer than ten points and have therefore eluded detection so far, but their combined effects could have enormous consequences.

In our 2006 review, we expressed concern that additional developmental neurotoxicants might lurk undiscovered among the 201 chemicals then known to be neurotoxic to adult human beings and among the many thousands of pesticides, solvents, and other industrial chemicals in widespread use that had never been tested for neurodevelopmental toxicity. Since our previous review, new data have emerged about the vulnerability of the developing brain and the neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. Particularly important new evidence derives from prospective epidemiological birth cohort studies.

In this Review, we consider recent information about the developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals to update our previous report. Additionally, we propose strategies to counter this pandemic and to prevent the spread of neurological disease and disability in children worldwide.

Unique vulnerability of the developing brain

The fetus is not well protected against industrial chemicals. The placenta does not block the passage of many environmental toxicants from the maternal to the fetal circulation, and more than 200 foreign chemicals have been detected in umbilical cord blood. Additionally, many environmental chemicals are transferred to the infant through human breastmilk. During fetal life and early infancy, the blood–brain barrier provides only partial protection against the entry of chemicals into the CNS.
Moreover, the developing human brain is exceptionally sensitive to injury caused by toxic chemicals, and several developmental processes have been shown to be highly vulnerable to chemical toxicity. For example, in-vitro studies suggest that neural stem cells are very sensitive to neurotoxic substances such as methylmercury. Some pesticides inhibit cholinesterase function in the developing brain, thereby affecting the crucial regulatory role of acetylcholine before synapse formation. Early-life epigenetic changes are also known to affect subsequent gene expression in the brain. In summary, industrial chemicals known or suspected to be neurotoxic to adults are also likely to present risks to the developing brain.
Figure 1 shows the unique vulnerability of the brain during early life and indicates how developmental exposures to toxic chemicals are particularly likely to lead to functional deficits and disease later in life.


Read on.... (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/fulltext)

[Ernie Nemeth]

Thing is, though, humans are not machines. A machine gets dirt in its gears and it is only a matter of time before it seizes. For that matter, a machine is destined to malfunction at some time because parts wear out.

Mankind is unique. Is it the brain that makes the man? Or is it the man that makes the brain?

Two people fall off a scaffold on the sixteenth floor and one survives the impact with the ground.

Two people with horrible childhoods, one becomes a serial killer, the other a saint.

One cannot remove the ineffable from the human experience. Of course toxins affect the brain but the mind affects it more.

There was a study, I believe it was aired on Sixty Minutes or more probably Nova, that delved into the subject of brain disorders. In this show they were looking at various brain injuries and the effect on the individual. Using brain scans the affected area of the brain could be observed. There were many types of injuries from chemical damage to steel rods through the brain to severed corpus callosum. There was one particular person that was shown who had virtually no brain activity at all. Just a little bit of neuronal activity up front in the temporal lobe. (I made a mental note of this one because I keep a file in my mind of any exceptions to the rule in any subject) The scientists were extremely surprised to find this because the person exhibited no abnormal behavior and showed no sign of impaired mental function.

What I guess I'm trying to say here is that mankind is extremely resilient and can take care of and find a work around to almost any adverse environmental agent out there. That being said, not all can tap this higher function, although all have the innate capacity.imo

[Ernie Nemeth]

This might very well be the show I am referencing above:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mapping-the-brain.html

[Icare]

Thank you, Constance, for this really interesting thread. There's a lot of food for thought in these videos.

There is also an interesting clip about Jane Elliott doing the kind of experiment you posted above with her pupils with grown-ups. It's a workshop for adults about racism and is well worth watching.
Even though this is quite old now, it is still very topical.

Blue eye brown eye study

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[Constance]

Hey Ernie :flower:

Thanks for your thoughts.

In relation to what you shared about brain disorders, I saw an amazing documentary years ago about individuals who had suffered from a severe form of encephalopathy.

These individuals, who varied in age from childhood to young adulthood, functioned perfectly normally in the world and yet their brains lacked physically what would be considered to be core and vital parts of the brain.

What I found incredible was that these individuals had only the outer shell of the brain and the brain stem remaining. What was most fascinating was that these individuals were able to completely compensate for a lack of a physical brain, so to speak. One of the individuals studied even played the piano!

The video was made at least 20 years ago and I don't know if a follow up was ever done on this individuals to see how they were coping with the world, or if they were still alive but it most certainly does beg the question, what is the brain and what is the mind? And I was reminded of Rupert Sheldrake's work, The Mind beyond the Brain

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In relation to what you have said here...


What I guess I'm trying to say here is that mankind is extremely resilient and can take care of and find a work around to almost any adverse environmental agent out there. That being said, not all can tap this higher function, although all have the innate capacity.imo

Brian Gerard Schaefer addresses here in this video and in other videos (and more particularly in his book) in depth, how everyone can tap into this higher function and beyond, no matter what their circumstances. See post #25 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110875-How-you-really-make-decisions&p=1363302&viewfull=1#post1363302)

Brian offers a conscious wholistic look at the nature of the mind, the origins of thoughts (what is a thought and where does it come from) the mind and body connection, inspirations on how to change how you think, how the breath affects our thoughts, how to gain control of your thoughts, how you are what you eat whilst you think, along with many other pieces of inspirational information. It addresses all the factors that many people may never have stopped to consider.

Relating now to your comment, Two people with horrible childhoods, one becomes a serial killer, the other a saint

Brian shares your interest regarding how and why this happens and if you haven't already watched his video, I warmly invite you to do so. :heart:


Thing is, though, humans are not machines. A machine gets dirt in its gears and it is only a matter of time before it seizes. For that matter, a machine is destined to malfunction at some time because parts wear out.

Mankind is unique. Is it the brain that makes the man? Or is it the man that makes the brain?

Two people fall off a scaffold on the sixteenth floor and one survives the impact with the ground.

Two people with horrible childhoods, one becomes a serial killer, the other a saint.

One cannot remove the ineffable from the human experience. Of course toxins affect the brain but the mind affects it more.

There was a study, I believe it was aired on Sixty Minutes or more probably Nova, that delved into the subject of brain disorders. In this show they were looking at various brain injuries and the effect on the individual. Using brain scans the affected area of the brain could be observed. There were many types of injuries from chemical damage to steel rods through the brain to severed corpus callosum. There was one particular person that was shown who had virtually no brain activity at all. Just a little bit of neuronal activity up front in the temporal lobe. (I made a mental note of this one because I keep a file in my mind of any exceptions to the rule in any subject) The scientists were extremely surprised to find this because the person exhibited no abnormal behavior and showed no sign of impaired mental function.

What I guess I'm trying to say here is that mankind is extremely resilient and can take care of and find a work around to almost any adverse environmental agent out there. That being said, not all can tap this higher function, although all have the innate capacity.imo

[Constance]

Thank you for sharing Icare. I very much appreciate it! :heart:


Thank you, Constance, for this really interesting thread. There's a lot of food for thought in these videos.

There is also an interesting clip about Jane Elliott doing the kind of experiment you posted above with her pupils with grown-ups. It's a workshop for adults about racism and is well worth watching.
Even though this is quite old now, it is still very topical.

Blue eye brown eye study

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[Constance]

I came across this video today. It was a series of experiments conducted back in 2016. It was very interesting what was uncovered.

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Racial profiling by stores, landlords and companies: Are we racist? (CBC Marketplace)

In this video, there is a test that was conducted by CBC/Harvard regarding racial biases. I went looking for it because I was curious as to what was involved in the test.

I found it and just for fun, I took the test. :) If you want to do the test, you can remain anonymous. You don't need to register your email address. :flower::flower::flower:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

[Mike]

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[Constance]

Thanks to Onawah for this video here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111342-Mind-control-and-programming&p=1364558&viewfull=1#post1364558) on 'no-touch' torture.

[Constance]

This could explain a lot of the confusion and cognitive dissonance that people are experiencing at the moment.

It's called, the Alice in Wonderland technique



0:00 - Alice In Wonderland Technique
4:48 - Aren't We All Having The Alice In Wonderland Technique Used On Us?
10:27 - Who Is The Target?
15:04 - Are You Here Because Of Yourself?
19:18 - How Do We Actually Live?


Q&A Section
23:31 - I Talked About AI And I Saw Wild Stuff In My Feed
24:42 - What Do You Do When You Are Subjected To The Technique?
29:13 - Do You Question Your Own State Paranoia At Your Door?





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[Constance]

This little piece by Oatmeal.

For the rest of the cartoon/article piece see The Oatmeal (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe?fbclid=IwAR0UoFZZoj_p513PkHiNXywiPocJRx9D59Lsgym3csRUQz-0Qu5jT9oA7K8)

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[Constance]

The ladder of inference (https://artofleadershipconsulting.com/blog/leadership/mental-models-ladder-of-inference/)




Mental Models are embedded assumptions, generalizations, or even images. These models shape our worldview and, in turn, impact our behavior. Consequently, two people may witness exactly the same event yet have vastly different perceptions because they have different mental models. In a sense, mental models are like eye glasses, critically changing the way we see the world around us.

Chris Argyris developed a “Ladder of Inference” to describe how people form and sustain mental models. According to Mr. Argyris, we all make assumptions in their daily lives. They are necessary. For example, when we buy a bottle of milk, we assume the milk is drinkable. This said, we must acknowledge that our assumptions could be wrong, especially when we make assumptions about the intentions or beliefs of others.




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I actually like this visual to describe how our beliefs loop upon themselves.


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[Constance]

Tony Wright asks a most interesting questions in this little video [14.46] called Dementia self-assessment. Can you prove you haven't got it? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci0hI_Zk-2I&ab_channel=TonyWright)
Sharing this again because it is worth it.

[Constance]

For those who are interested in taking a deeper dive into Tony's work

The Insanity of Humanity Episode 1
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The Insanity of Humanity Episode 2
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The Insanity of Humanity Episode 3
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The Insanity of Humanity Episode 4
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