Study on the psychology of causality finds inference can take precedence over perception

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14 Jul 2013 19:59 #112658 by Br. John

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14 Jul 2013 20:25 #112660 by RyuJin

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As obi wan would say: "your eyes can betray you, don't trust them"

Or as I said in psychology class: "perception is deception"

Our external senses are easily fooled and can therefore be manipulated to contradict our logic/knowledge...

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This is why the phrase, "Perception is Reality" strikes a nerve on so many people.

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15 Jul 2013 00:52 #112684 by

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“Secondly, as philosopher Rick Grush has argued, what we experience at any given instant is not a single objective happening, a snapshot of the external world, but rather a collection of temporally neighbouring events, which are then ordered according to our knowledge.”

Love that quote!

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It seems to me all this is saying the mind is a powerfull organ. Imagine the possibilities.

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