The Eyes Do Not See What The Mind Does Not Want... REPACK
Your eyes allow you to see, but they only pick up visible light from the world around you. They then send nerve signals to your brain containing information about what they saw. Your brain turns those signals into information that you can understand and use.
The Eyes Do Not See What the Mind Does Not Want...
About two thirds of the women never saw the man walk across the screen in front of them, similar to the previous studies. As we suspected, who they saw depended on what they had on their minds. When the women were set to look for a suitable neighbor or co-worker they saw the black man and the white man equally often. But when they were looking for a friend or a date, they noticed the white man more than twice as often as the black man. The unconscious screener seemed to have racial preferences, but there was not a simple bias to see only whites or only blacks. The women were unconsciously deciding whether the man in the video was the kind of guy they were looking for. If not, he was never consciously perceived.
The question is how smart does the screener need to be to explain these findings? No scientist today believes in a Freudian unconscious, complete with its own quirks and urges, scheming to delude the conscious mind. The unconscious today is understood as a vast store of knowledge, habits, and associations that help process information efficiently rather than waiting in the queue for slower conscious thinking. To explain selective selectivity, the unconscious screener must be able to do at least two things. First, it has to know what the goal is. Second, it must make a first approximation of whether the candidate for consciousness fits the goal or not.
I have seen the face of mental illness. I have seen what it is like when people are unable to hear God because their minds are broken and cannot seem to connect to God even when they want to connect to God. And I know whatever gets your mind gets you. So one of the most important things we need to learn and teach others is how to guard, strengthen, and renew our minds, because the battle for sin always starts in the mind.
We naturally feel that if we think something, it must be true because it comes from within us. But just because you think something does not make it true. As I said above, I have seen the face of mental illness. So many different suggestions can come into the mind. The world puts suggestions in our minds that are false, and we are bombarded with those false ideas all the time. And, of course, Satan makes suggestions all the time. But your problem is much deeper than Satan. Everybody has a mental illness. We are all mentally ill. The mental illness is called sin. And the Bible uses at least a dozen different phrases for the condition of our minds under sin. Our minds are:
But one of the big reasons why you need to not believe everything you think is that we see what we want to see. I read whatever I can about the brain, and one of the things I just learned is that the optic nerve, which is the only nerve that goes directly to your brain, actually sends more impulses from your brain forward than from your eye backward. Which means your brain is telling you what you see. You are already preconditioned. That is why you can put four people at an accident and each of them will see something different. We must remind ourselves, and teach others, not to believe everything we think!
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
The third thing we need is conviction. Conviction is the third building block, as these build on each other. We pursue knowledge of the Word, then perspective on why God does what he does, and, in doing so, we start to develop convictions.
wow did you ever find out what it was ? I get cramp & pins & need all the time all I get told is drink lots of water but that doesn't even help me.I would love to know what yours was as im still trying to sort mine out.im Jamie 47 year old male ive had brain damage since 2002 good luck
I am a 73 year old woman and fell face down on a thin rug covering a concrete floor. I got two very black eyes and a big bump on my forehead. The black eyes looked awful, with severe bruising on my eyelids, eyes and spread out down my cheeks. I found my vision was affected, I had some trouble focusing, I had mild headaches and terrible insomnia. Over time, it spread even further to look like a mask...very much like a raccoon. It eventually spread out all the way down my cheeks to my chin. Gradually, the bruising all got lighter in color and, 6 weeks later, the bruising is gone now. There is still a little reddish bump on my forehead and some light bruise streaks on my cheeks (that not many would notice). I still have mild headaches. I was wearing glasses when I fell, and I think they protected me somewhat. I still have vision problems, a slight headache and trouble sleeping, but I think these problems will fade with time.
Our vision is binocular, meaning that the brain combines images from two eyes, which are in different positions, into just one, in order to offer a vision of the world similar to what the Cyclops of Greek mythology would experience with its single central eye. Not long ago, Bas Rokers and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered the exact spot in the brain where the two images are combined. As reported in the journal Current Biology, this finding will help treat diseases such as lazy eye.
On the other hand, we must bear in mind that all eyes suffer from optical imperfections that make projections on the retina have some blurring, though we perceive them as clear because the visual system auto-calibrates. Researchers at the Institute of Optics Daza de Valdés of the CSIC (Spain) have found that when each eye has a different level of blur, the brain uses the image projected through the eye with fewer imperfections as the sharpness reference. In other words, having two options gives us the best view of the world that surrounds us.
Although this usually goes unnoticed, our eyes never stop making quick, tiny corrections in the direction we look. These involuntary, jerk-like movements, called Microsaccades, occur on the order of 3 to 4 times every second, faster than the heartbeat. Until recently, nobody knew what purpose these corrections served, but scientists at the University of Tubingen (Germany) seem to have found the key.
Epistemological solipsism is the variety of idealism according to which only the directly accessible mental contents of the solipsistic philosopher can be known. The existence of an external world is regarded as an unresolvable question rather than actually false.[2] Further, one cannot also be certain as to what extent the external world exists independently of one's mind. For instance, it may be that a God-like being controls the sensations received by mind, making it appear as if there is an external world when most of it (excluding the God-like being and oneself) is false. However, the point remains that epistemological solipsists consider this an "unresolvable" question.[2]
Methodological solipsism is an agnostic variant of solipsism. It exists in opposition to the strict epistemological requirements for "knowledge" (e.g. the requirement that knowledge must be certain). It still entertains the points that any induction is fallible. Methodological solipsism sometimes goes even further to say that even what we perceive as the brain is actually part of the external world, for it is only through our senses that we can see or feel the mind. Only the existence of thoughts is known for certain.
Modern idealists believe that the mind and its thoughts are the only true things that exist. This is the reverse of what is sometimes called "classical idealism" or, somewhat confusingly, "Platonic idealism" due to the influence of Plato's theory of forms (εἶδος eidos or ἰδέα idea) which were not products of our thinking.[11] The material world is ephemeral, but a perfect triangle or "beauty" is eternal. Religious thinking tends to be some form of idealism, as God usually becomes the highest ideal (such as neoplatonism).[10][12][13] On this scale, solipsism can be classed as idealism. Thoughts and concepts are all that exist, and furthermore, only the solipsist's own thoughts and consciousness exist. The so-called "reality" is nothing more than an idea that the solipsist has (perhaps unconsciously) created.
From the standpoint of Prasangika (a branch of Madhyamaka thought), external objects do exist, but are devoid of any type of inherent identity: "Just as objects of mind do not exist [inherently], mind also does not exist [inherently]".[29] In other words, even though a chair may physically exist, individuals can only experience it through the medium of their own mind, each with their own literal point of view. Therefore, an independent, purely 'objective' reality could never be experienced.
The difference is that all those who identify themselves as experiencing Christ in the now, know the truth of what they see, and they say that Thomas told the truth. However for some reason those who do not identify themselves as experiencing Christ in the now, seem to imagine that the humble follower to take the place of Jesus should be Peter and his Roman palace, rather than the obscure and unknown Justin the Just. It does not seem like it should confuse, yet the people of the world always love the opposite of the truth.
Most things have multiple meanings. What I gained from this, is that when one eats another creature, one takes on something of its essence. So if you eat beef you become more docile and unenlightened. If you eat pork you become greedier. I considered this passage might be related to that phenomenon, in that if you were to eat a Lion, you would take on some of the character of the Lion, and the Lion likewise would take on some of the character of whatever it ate. The effect is clearly more pronounced to those who are sensitive to it, and especially at times of high energy such as now. Those of you in this mind state should be cautious. Eating little is the best. Digestion in general does not seem comfortable for me. We have been too well trained for consumption as an economic driver. 041b061a72