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ScienceDaily: Process For Storing And Erasing Long-term Memories Discovered: Apr 7, 11:15am 2 reviews cognitive-science
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070816143807.htm

A New Species of Humanity: Jun 8, 2007 11:09am 0 review cognitive-science
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=1091

Damn Interesting & Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations: Mar 16, 2007 3:09pm 13 reviews cognitive-science
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=604; From the page: "In the year 1760, a Swiss naturalist named Charles Bonnet became concerned when his grandfather Charles Lullin began to experience a parade of "amusing and magical visions." The eighty-nine-year-old Lullin was being visited by visions of people, birds, carriages, and buildings, all of which were invisible to everyone but him. Apparently these mysterious objects materialized spontaneously among the few bits of the world he was still able to perceive through his cataracts. [...]

Numerous similar cases have been recorded in the decades since, and though it has long been regarded as a rare disease, recent evidence suggests that it is much more widespread than previously believed.

For those stricken with Charles Bonnet Syndrome, the world is occasionally adorned with vivid yet unreal images. Some see surfaces covered in non-existent patterns such as brickwork or tiles, while others see phantom objects in astonishing detail, including people, animals, buildings, or whatever else their minds may conjure. These images linger for as little as several seconds or for as much as several hours, appearing and vanishing abruptly. They may consist of commonplace items such as bottles or hats, or brain-bending nonsense such as dancing children with giant flowers for heads. [...]

Human perception is patently imperfect, so even a normal brain must fabricate a fair amount of data to provide a complete sense of our surroundings. We humans are lucky that we have these fancy brains to chew up the fibrous chunks of reality and regurgitate it into a nice, mushy paste which our conscious minds can digest. But whenever one of us notices something that doesn't exist, or fails to notice something that does exist, our personal version of the world is nudged a little bit further from reality. It makes one wonder how much of reality we all have in common, and how much is all in our minds."

thanks to Jerome

Dream Quotes: Feb 22, 2007 1:37pm 1 review cognitive-science
http://www.netreach.net/~nhojem/dreamq.htm

Index of /mavericks: Dec 18, 2006 6:13pm 9 reviews cognitive-science
http://www.levity.com/mavericks/

http://www.singinst.org/images/grid/quote-douglas-hofstadter.jpg: Dec 15, 2006 10:35am 0 review cognitive-science
http://www.singinst.org/images/grid/quote-douglas-hofstadter.jpg

Why You Dont Create Your Own Reality by Michael Topper: Oct 10, 2006 4:15pm 0 review cognitive-science, non-reality-creation
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/topperycyor.htm

Seth on �The Origins of the Universe and of the Species� ~ An Integral Conscious…: Sep 27, 2006 11:05am 1 review cognitive-science, virtual-reality, metaphysics, reality-creation
http://www.newworldview.com/library/Helfrich_P_Seth_on_a_Conscious_Creation_M...; Finally, the nine dimensions of time also show how each noospheric lifetime simultaneously relates to other lifetimes within the same Framework 1, regardless of their overall stages of development. For instance, a lifetime in 1005 BCE is PAST/present in relation to my lifetime in 2005, which is my PRESENT/present. In turn, a lifetime in 3005 CE is a FUTURE/present in relation to my lifetime in 2005. However, 1005 BCE, 2005 CE, and 3005 CE exist all at once from the perspective of my inner ego's "wave focus." Thus, my PRESENT/present while appearing absolute to my "particle focus" is simultaneously the PAST/present to my 2,850 CE lifetime and FUTURE/present of my 1005 BCE lifetime. This is another example of what Seth meant by "simultaneous time" as an expression of multidimensional personality.

Belief Systems and Social Perception Structures: Sep 12, 2006 3:15pm 1 review cognitive-science, reality-creation
http://www.trufax.org/general/beliefsystems.html; "The Bible tells us to 'be like God', and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization." - Robert Anton Wilson