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laodan discovered this in Cognitive Science
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laodan discovered 25 months ago
Our grip on reality is slim Our grip on what is going on around us is indeed very slim. If it is already difficult for many of us to agree on what we just saw some hours before try, for a second, to imagine the variations, in our understanding of what reality is all about, that we each gained from our past life experiences. The resulting of our perception of reality is indeed a wide variation of interpretations, so wide, that it is as if we were perceiving fundamentally different realities... in ScienceBlog from University College London """ The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just imagined it, according to a paper published in NeuroImage this week. """ URL: Our grip on reality is slim
- Danimal rated 25 months ago
- yet another great reason to be a skeptic
- Codebender rated 25 months ago
- "In our tests volunteers either thought they had imagined words which they had actually been shown or said they had seen words which in fact they had just imagined - in over 20 per cent of cases. That is quite a lot of mistakes to be making, and shows how fallible our memory is - or perhaps, how slim our grip on reality is!
