I bet sleep deprivation is only one of the ordeals that Bradley Manning
suffered. No wonder he wants to change his name. It's a miracle that he's still
functional.
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From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....
livescience.com might want to change it's name to pretentiousscience.com or
fascistscience.com. They obviously have an agenda and it's not science but the
herd people into being "good, non-complaining consumers."
The conspiracy thing caught my eye and in their context instead of
being about political conspiracies it should be about family and
friends conspiring against the individual. And of course that too
DOES happen.
Perhaps these "scientists" might try going a few days without
sleep until they become delusional to really understand what it's
about. Sleep deprivation is all it takes to make someone crazy
and usually only temporarily.
On 08/22/2013 07:04 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
>Ironic that the neuroscientists are completely unfamiliar with their conscious
>minds *not* being in a constant state of thought. White rats, chasing other
>white rats.
>
>A few moments of their own mental peace might turn their
attention away from always studying undeveloped minds. It
as if science can do no better than to validate an
immature state of the mind, because the limited awareness
of the scientists, cannot see any further. What a total
waste of time.
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...>
>wrote:
>>
>> Delusional People See the World Through Their Mind's
Eye
>>
>>
>>
>> A mechanism for how the brain creates and maintains
delusions is
>> revealed in a new study.
>>
>> Having delusions, such as a belief in telekinesis,
can influence how
>> people see the world - literally.
>>
>> Human beliefs
>> <http://www.livescience.com/16748-americans-beliefs-paranormal-infograph\
>> ic.html> are shaped by perception, but the new research suggests
>> delusions — unfounded but tightly held beliefs — can
turn the
>> tables and actually shape perception. People who are
prone to forming
>> delusions may not correctly distinguish among
different sensory inputs,
>> and may rely on these delusions to help make sense of
the world, the
>> study finds. Typical delusions include paranoid ideas
or inflated ideas
>> about oneself.
>>
>> "Beliefs form in order to minimize our surprise about
the world," said
>> neuroscientist Phil Corlett of Yale University in New
Haven, Conn., who
>> was not involved in the study. "Our expectations
override what we
>> actually see," Corlett added.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The prevailing thinking holds that people develop
delusions
>> <http://www.livescience.com/5508-people-unsure-beliefs-close-minded.html\
>> > to predict how events in their lives will occur — just as
>> Pavlov's dog learned to predict that the sound of a
bell ringing meant
>> dinnertime was imminent. Humans update their beliefs
when what they
>> predict doesn't match what they actually experience,
Corlett said.
>>
>> But delusions often appear to override the evidence
of the senses. To
>> test this idea, German and Swedish researchers
conducted behavioral and
>> neuroimaging experiments on healthy people who harbor
delusions.
>>
>> In one experiment, volunteers were given a
questionnaire designed to
>> measure delusional beliefs. Questions included: Do
you ever feel as if
>> people are
>> reading your mind?; Do you ever feel as if there is a
conspiracy against
>> you <http://www.livescience.com/11375-top-ten-conspiracy-theories.html>
>> ?; Do you ever feel as if you are, or destined to be
someone very
>> important?; and Are you often worried that your
partner may be
>> unfaithful?
>>
>> The participants then performed a task that tested
their visual
>> perception: They were shown a sphere-shaped set of
dots rotating in an
>> ambiguous direction, and asked to report which
direction it was rotating
>> at various intervals.
>>
>> People who harbored a greater number of delusional
beliefs (those who
>> scored higher on the questionnaire) saw the dots
appear to change
>> direction more often than the average person. The
result confirms
>> findings from previous studies that delusional
individuals have less
>> stable perceptions of the world.
>>
>> In a second experiment, the volunteers were given
glasses, which they
>> were told would bias their view so that the rotating
dots would appear
>> to go in one direction
>> <http://www.livescience.com/14093-optical-illusions-gallery.html> more
>> often than the other direction — a delusion, because
these were
>> actually ordinary glasses. The volunteers performed a
similar
>> dot-watching task, with a learning phase and a test
phase. During the
>> learning phase, the dots clearly rotated in one
direction, but during
>> the test phase, the direction was ambiguous.
>>
>> While wearing the glasses, the volunteers reported
seeing the dots
>> rotate in the biased direction, even during the test
phase. They clung
>> to the delusion that the glasses altered their
vision, even though the
>> visual evidence contradicted this idea, suggesting
they used their
>> delusional beliefs to interpret what they were
seeing.
>>
>> A third experiment was similar to the second, but
brain scans were taken
>> using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The
scans showed that when
>> people were deluded about the direction of the dots'
rotation, their
>> brains were encoding the delusion as if they had
really seen the dots
>> move that way. In other words, people weren't just
ignoring what they
>> saw; they were really seeing something else.
>>
>> Furthermore, the brain scans revealed connections
between a brain area
>> involved in beliefs, the orbitofrontal cortex, and an
area involved in
>> visual processing, the visual cortex. (Both became
active during the
>> delusional observations.)
>>
>> Corlett finds the results exciting. The study "gives
us a nice
>> explanation for the relation between belief and
perception and how it
>> might go awry," he said.
>>
>> But he cautioned that drawing inferences about people
who are clinically
>> delusional, such as those with schizophrenia
>> <http://www.livescience.com/34794-schizophrenia-mental-disorder-percepti\
>> on-distortion.html> , may be premature. Time will tell whether the same
>> brain mechanisms are at play for these patients, he
said.
>>
>> http://www.livescience.com/39038-how-delusions-shape-perception.html
>> <http://www.livescience.com/39038-how-delusions-shape-perception.html>
>>
>
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