The Science of Senses · Perception Based Sense: Time Time is perception based Slow down or speed up State of flow Flow = happiness Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Flow: The Psychology

The Science of Senses Module 2

MINDSET PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE

Where To Start?How we get information into our brains...whether we know it or not


2 Points Conscious vs Unconscious Dynamic vs Fixed


Neural Priming “Blink” → scramble test (Bargh, et al. 1996)”I want you to make a grammatical four-word sentence as quickly as possible out of each set.”● him was worried she always● are from Florida oranges temperature● ball the throw toss silently● shoes give replace old the● he observes occasionally people watches● be will sweat lonely they● sky the seamless gray is● should not withdraw forgetful we● us bingo sing play let● sunlight makes temperature wrinkle raisins

source http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/03/walking-fast-and-slow.html#sthash.j8QU9NWA.dpu


Neural Priming ● Measured how fasted they walked when they left● Subjects were not told ● Primed (sentence scrambled) vs no priming● Results?

○ Primed subjects walked much slower○ Unconscious programing

● Stay tuned…..● “‘Neuroskeptics”

Bargh, John A.; Chen, Mark; Burrows, Lara. “Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 71(2), Aug 1996, 230-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.230


http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.230





Information● Unconscious mind → the key● Where is the information coming from?● How does it get in?● Does the source matter?● What do we DO about it?

Example of unconscious programming?


Instinct

“Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow” --William James, 1902

What is instinct?

William James (1902) listed in: The William James Reader Vol I (2007). p. 264.


Instinct “any behavior which did not require cognition or consciousness to perform” -- Jean Henri Fabre (Raffles, 2010)

● Fell out of favor in the 1920s● Behaviorism → B. F. Skinner

○ Premise → most significant behavior is learned● Unconscious programming → instinct● “Gut feelings”

Raffles, Hugh (2010). Insectopedia. New York: Pantheon Books


5 SensesSenses → Unconscious 1) Sight (ophthalmoception)2) Hearing (audioception)3) Taste (gustaoception)4) Smell (olfacoception) 5) Touch (tactioception)The Top 5


5 More Senses1) Temperature (thermoception)2) Kinesthetic sense (proprioception)3) Pain (nociception)4) Balance (equilibrioception)5) Internal stimuli

a) Chemoreceptors - blood/tissueb) Detect salt, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc


Senses → Maps“The map is not the territory” (1)

Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram "the map is not the thing mapped" (2)A) A map may have a structure similar or dissimilar to the structure of the territory...B) A map is not the territory

1) "A Non-Aristotelian System and its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics", a paper presented before the American Mathematical Society at the New Orleans, Louisiana, meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 28, 1931. Reprinted in Science and Sanity, 1933, p. 747–61.

2)Jump up, Numerology: The Magic of Numbers (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1933).


Senses → MapsSenses → Map → Unconscious ● Proprioceptive map● Duck in your car


Beyond 10 Senses● Electromagnetic (EM fields)

○ Electrical○ Magnetic

■ Sharks ● Echolocation● Invisible waves

○ Humans?


Beyond 10 Senses“TMS ( transcranial magnetic stimulation) to the RTPJ (right temporoparietal junction) caused participants to judge attempted harms as less morally forbidden and more morally permissible. Thus, interfering with activity in the RTPJ disrupts the capacity to use mental states in moral judgment, especially in the case of attempted harms” -Young, 2010

Liane Young, Joan Albert Camprodon, Marc Hauser,, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, and Rebecca Saxe “Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments” PNAS, 2010, 107 (5)6753–6758, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914826107


Ray GunActive Denial System

“Skin heating effects of millimeter-wave irradiation-thermal modeling results” Nelson, D.A.; Nelson, M.T.; Walters, T.J.; Mason, P.A.; Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Volume 48, Issue 11, Nov. 2000 Page(s):2111 – 2120.




Beyond Vision● Goggles that turned their world upside down● Austrian researcher Ivo Kohler● 50 years ago● Their brain re-flipped the image ● With the glasses on● Took the glasses off ● Image flipped again

Peter Weibel “Beyond Art: A Third Culture” Springer Science & Business Media, May 17, 2005 - Architecture - 616 pages


https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Architecture%22&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Architecture%22&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0

Vision


Beyond 10 Senses● See magnetic fields?● Peter König● “feelSpace belt”

○ allows human beings to perceive magnetic direction via vibrating pads on a belt

"...intuitively aware of the direction of my home or my office. I'd be waiting in line in the cafeteria and spontaneously think: I live over there."

On a visit to Hamburg, about 100 miles away, he noticed that he was conscious of the direction of his hometown.

Wächter felt the vibration in his dreams, moving around his waist, just like when he was awake. Source: Wired Magazine, Issue 15.04 - March 2007


Perception Based Sense: Time● Time is perception based● Slow down or speed up● State of flow

Flow = happiness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.” Harper & Row. 1990


Neural Priming ● “Blink” → scramble test ● “‘Neuroskeptics”


Neural Priming ● New study (Doyan, S et al. 2012)

○ Doubled the sample size○ Infrared sensors and stopwatch○ Told the researchers the expected result (biasing)

● Found similar results...when using a stopwatch● Infrared sensor

○ Slow group did walk slower○ Fast group however, did NOT walk faster


Neural Priming “96% of participants reported that they could not establish a link between the scrambled sentences task and their subsequent behavior” -Doyan, S et al, 2012

No awareness of programing → unconscious


THREE KEY POINTS

Fertile groundChanging

FastMajority

Information entersNot isolatedAwarenessThe map

Dynamic Unconscious Senses


The Science of Senses Module 2


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The Science of Senses · Perception Based Sense: Time Time is perception based Slow down or speed up State of flow Flow = happiness Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Flow: The Psychology