Awareness - Consciousness
Awareness is having
knowledge
of something and having an
alert cognitive
state in which you are
aware of yourself and aware of your
situation.
Awareness is the
ability to directly
know and
perceive and be
cognizant of
events.
To
be aware is
having knowledge or
having understanding of
something, or having a
realization or
perception of something. A state of
elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness. The
quality of being
conscious of something and
feeling it. Awareness is when you're not
unconscious,
unaware or
sleeping. But just
being awake does not mean
that you're conscious. If you're
not aware of the right things
at the right time, then your awareness will not be
effective. And if you
lack knowledge, you
will also lack awareness.
Situation Awareness
is the
perception of
environmental elements and
events with respect to
time or
space, the
comprehension of their
meaning, and the projection of
their status after some
variable has changed, such as time, or some other
variable, such as a
predetermined event. It is also a field of study
concerned with
understanding of the
environment critical to
decision-makers in complex, dynamic areas from aviation, air traffic
control, ship navigation, power plant operations, military command and
control, and
emergency services such as fire fighting and policing; to
more ordinary but nevertheless complex tasks such as driving an automobile
or riding a bicycle.
Self Smart
-
Mindful -
Focus -
Conscious -
Unaware -
Conscience -
Senses -
Perception -
Perspective -
Beyond Senses -
Subconscious -
Thinking -
Compassion -
Caregiving -
Epiphany
-
What we Know
Alert is to be aroused and mentally
perceptive and responsive to a sense of danger or call to a
state of preparedness. Engaged in or
accustomed to
close observation.
Condition of heightened
watchfulness or preparation for action.
Alertness is a state of
readiness to
respond.
Heed is to pay close attention to something
or paying particular notice to people in need. Heedful is giving close and
thoughtful attention or being cautiously attentive.
Hyper Aware or
Hyperawareness is to be extremely aware and much more alert to
stimuli than normal.
Vigilant is to be carefully
observant or
attentive and on the lookout for
possible dangers.
Focus.
Wary is showing caution about possible
dangers or problems. Having watchful
prudence. Being distrustful of someone and unwilling to confide in them.
Reservations is having an unstated
doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly. A
statement that limits or restricts some claim. Reservation can also mean
something reserved in advance. The written record or promise of an
arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance. The act of
keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion. A district that is
reserved for particular purpose.
Circumspect is being heedful of potential consequences.
Thoughtful.
Caveats is a statement that limits or
restricts some claim. A warning against certain acts.
Careful is exercising caution or showing
care or attention. Unhurried and with care and dignity.
Mindful of the future.
Cautious is being aware and
attentive
to possible
dangers and avoiding harm or
danger by having careful
forethought and
knowledge. Cautious is being careful to avoid
potential problems or
dangers. An action
characterized by the desire to avoid potential problems.
Self-Defense
(put on guard).
Be on the Lookout is to continuously watch
a place or
pay attention in order to find
something you want or to be ready for problems or opportunities.
Observant is paying close attention
especially to
details.
Quick to
notice and showing quick and keen
perception.
Watch Out is a warning to
someone to be careful, because something unpleasant might happen to them
or they might get into difficulties.
Consequences
-
Dilemmas.
Watch
your Back is to tell someone to
be careful of the people around
them and to be aware.
Arouse is to become awake or conscious and
cause to be alert,
energetic, active and affected by
emotion
or
desire.
Wakefulness is a periodic
state during which you are
conscious and
aware of the world.
Awake is being mentally perceptive and
responsive or readily reacting or replying to people or
events
or
stimuli; showing emotion.
Not Sleeping.
Clarity
is something
free from
obscurity and
easy to understand; the
comprehensibility of
clear expression.
Not Vague.
Norepinephrine functions in the brain and body as both a
hormone and
neurotransmitter. The general
function of norepinephrine is to mobilize the brain and body for action.
Norepinephrine release is lowest during
sleep, and rises during
wakefulness, and reaches much
higher levels during situations of stress or danger, in the so-called
fight-or-flight response. In the
brain, norepinephrine increases arousal and alertness, promotes vigilance,
enhances formation and retrieval of memory, and focuses attention; it also
increases restlessness and anxiety. In the rest of the body,
norepinephrine increases heart rate and blood pressure, triggers the
release of glucose from energy stores, increases blood flow to skeletal
muscle, reduces blood flow to the gastrointestinal system, and inhibits
voiding of the bladder and gastrointestinal motility. Norepinephrine is an
organic chemical in the catecholamine family that functions in the human
brain and body as a hormone and neurotransmitter. Norepinephrine is also
called noradrenaline or
noradrenalin.
Tilting your head back and looking upward with your eyes wide open can
help you to feel more alert or feel less tired.
Context
Awareness is a property of
mobile devices that is
defined complementarily to location awareness. Whereas location may
determine how certain processes around a contributing device operate,
context may be applied more flexibly with mobile users, especially with
users of smart phones. Context awareness originated as a term from
ubiquitous computing or
as so-called pervasive computing which sought to deal with linking changes
in the environment with computer systems, which are otherwise static. The
term has also been applied to business theory in relation to contextual
application design and business process management issues.
Don't take awareness for granted. Everyone needs to learn how to
monitor their thoughts periodically. One
exercise is to stop several times a day and
take a moment to recall
what you were thinking about for the last 5 minutes. It's not unusual to
be doing something but thinking about something that is totally different
from what you are doing, like with
day dreaming.
We can't be aware of everything. This
is why things happen to us. When we are not totally aware of something, it
means that we are also not aware of the choices and options we might have
have to avoid
dangers. But just as long
as we continue to learn and progress, and just as long as we learn from
our mistakes, we can be a lot more aware of everything around us, which
means that we will suffer less and we will suffer less often from the
unexpected things that happen to us. You can't be aware of everything, but
the more aware you are of things, the greater your chances will be for success.
Soul -
Spirit.
Consciousness
Consciousness is the state or the quality of
being
aware of an external object or
aware of
something within oneself. It's having a
sense of
selfhood and the ability to
experience
and
feel. Consciousness is the
executive
control system of the
mind and a
wakeful and alert
cognitive state in which you are
aware of yourself and
aware of your situation. Consciousness is having
knowledge of yourself
and
knowledge of the world around you.
Consciousness is also described as sentience, awareness and
subjectivity.
Conscious is
knowing and
perceiving and being intentionally
conceived in the mind.
Having
awareness of surroundings
and having
sensations and
thoughts.
Mindful -
Agency -
Free Will -
System Check -
Briefed
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Philosophy of Mind -
Abstract -
Imagination -
Mirror
Stage -
Life Force -
States of Consciousness (wiki) -
Dualism -
Split Brain Surgery -
Out of Body Experience -
Meditation -
Half Asleep
Meta Awareness or
metacognition describes a phenomenon where a person becomes aware of
one's own awareness, and has cognition about cognition, and is thinking
about thinking or knowing about knowing.
Sentience is the capacity to
feel, perceive, or experience
subjectivity.
The state of elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness. The faculty through which the external
world is
apprehended.
The readiness to perceive
sensations.
Shift in Consciousness happens when the
accumulation of knowledge makes a person finally
realize the importance
of what they have learned.
Altered State of Consciousness is any condition which is significantly
different from a
normal waking state.
Secondary Consciousness is an individual's accessibility to their
history and plans. The ability allows its possessors to go beyond the
limits of the remembered present of primary consciousness. Primary
consciousness can be defined as simple awareness that includes perception
and emotion. As such, it is ascribed to most animals. By contrast,
secondary consciousness depends on and includes such features as
self-reflective awareness, abstract thinking,
volition and
metacognition.
Primary
Consciousness describes the ability to integrate observed events with
memory to create an awareness of the present and immediate past of the
world around them. This form of consciousness is also sometimes called
"sensory consciousness". Put another way, primary consciousness is the
presence of various subjective sensory contents of consciousness such as
sensations, perceptions, and mental images. For example, primary
consciousness includes a person's experience of the blueness of the ocean,
a bird's song, and the feeling of pain. Thus, primary consciousness refers
to being mentally aware of things in the world in the present without any
sense of past and future; it is composed of mental images bound to a time
around the measurable present.
Higher
Consciousness is a state of consciousness or personal development that
is described as a state of liberation from the limitations of self-concept
or ego, as well as a state of mystical experience in which the perceived
separation between the isolated self and the world or God is transcended.
It may also refer to a state of increased alertness or awakening to a new
perspective.
Lucid
Dreaming -
Out-of-Body Experience -
Near-Death Experience -
Enlightenment
Autonoetic Consciousness is the human ability to mentally place
oneself in the
past and future (i.e.
mental
time travel) or in
counterfactual situations (i.e.
alternative outcomes),
and to thus be able to examine one's own thoughts. One's
sense of self affects their behavior, in the
present, past and future. It relates to how one
reflects on their
own past behavior, how they feel about it, and this in turn determines
if they do it again.
Future
Self examines the processes and consequences associated with thinking
about oneself in the future. People think about their future selves
similarly to how they think about other people.
Collective Consciousness is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and
moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.
Consensus Reality.
Emergence occurs when an entity is observed to
have properties its
parts do not have on their own. These properties or behaviors emerge only
when the parts interact in a wider whole. For example, smooth forward
motion
emerges when a bicycle and its rider interoperate, but neither part
can produce the behavior on their own. Emergent phenomenon is an extension
of this self-organization phenomenon. However, there are some differences
between them.
Self-organization is the one-way formation of macroscopic
order from micro dynamics, whereas emergent phenomenon is the circulation
of recurrent information from macro to micro, and vice versa.
Manifest.
Global Workspace Theory is a cognitive architecture theory that
explains how consciousness emerges from the brain. GWT suggests that
consciousness is the result of perceptual contents being broadcast across
the brain to other processors. This process allows multiple networks to
cooperate and compete to solve problems. GWT is often compared to a
theater of mind, where conscious
contents are like a bright spot on a stage of immediate memory. The rest
of the brain is considered unconscious and dark.
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory
predicts that conscious presence is a nonlinear function of stimulus
salience; i.e., a gradual increase in stimulus visibility should be
accompanied by a sudden transition of the neuronal workspace into a
corresponding activity pattern.
Integrated information theory attempts to explain what
consciousness is and why it might be associated with certain physical
systems. It proposes a mathematical model for the consciousness of a
system. It comprises a framework ultimately intended to explain why some
physical systems (such as human brains) are conscious, and to be capable
of providing a concrete inference about whether any physical system is
conscious, to what degree, and what particular experience it is having;
why they feel the particular way they do in particular states (e.g. why
our visual field appears extended when we gaze out at the night sky), and
what it would take for other physical systems to be conscious (Are other
animals conscious? Might the whole Universe be?).
Spatial
Intelligence (perspective).
Do you remember your first
memory? Was that the day your
brain developed enough to have
the ability to store and retrieve past experiences and
knowledge, thus your first memory was formed?
Study shows that there is a critical period for
episodic learning and
that during this period, the
hippocampus
develops enough to learn to become able to
efficiently process and store memories long-term.
Mirror
Stage.
Childhood Amnesia
(memory loss)
Is awareness related to the
theory of mind? This
is probably one of the first steps to building your
awareness. This is
also related to the process we call learning. Awareness increases with
knowledge and experiences, why?
Consciousness
arises at birth in a limited function. But as we get older, a mature
consciousness
manifests itself from knowledge, but not
just any knowledge. The right kind of
knowledge increases awareness and
knowledge expands
your consciousness. Increase the knowledge of yourself and the world
around you, and you will increase your consciousness.
Researchers propose a new way to identify when babies become conscious.
When over the course of development do humans become conscious? When the
seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes was asked about
infant consciousness by his critics, he eventually suggested that infants
might have thoughts, albeit ones that are simpler than those of adults.
Hundreds of years later, the issue of when human beings become conscious
is a question which remains a challenge for psychologists and philosophers
alike.
There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by
birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of
researchers has found.
Consciousness in the cradle,
on the emergence of infant experience, researchers argue that by birth the
infant's
developing brain is capable
of conscious experiences that can make a
lasting imprint
on their developing sense of self and understanding of their environment.
Brain area thought to impart consciousness, behaves instead like an
Internet router. The brain's claustrum, receives, amplifies, and
broadcasts an 'Internet network' required to complete complex cognitive
tasks.
Our
consciousness is a combination of our
senses, our
pineal gland, our
frontal lobe, and our
memories working together. But
without
language, we can't
explain consciousness. So our consciousness is also an assembly of words
that uses other words to explain themselves.
Superior Frontal Gyrus of the
brain
is involved in
self-awareness, in
coordination with the action of the
sensory system.
Posterior
Cortical Hot Zone includes
sensory cortical areas in the parietal,
temporal, and
occipital lobes.
It is the “
sensory” cortex, much as the
frontal cortex is the “action”
cortex. When parts of the
posterior cortex are damaged, whole modalities
of sensory experience disappear from both waking and
dreaming.
Awareness is a instrument of the brain. The brain
developed in a way that it gives a person the ability to access
learned information and
past experiences and then apply that
information and past experiences to a present moment of thought
or action, an action that will hopefully produce a
positive
outcome. Awareness is having a good idea about what is going to
happen in the
future. One of the effects of awareness is that sometimes
a person will experience
euphoria and sometimes feel overwhelmed with what is
happening, internally or externally.
We have no idea how awareness works, we only know of some of its
affects and abilities.
I can say I was aware of something. I could also say my
awareness was not what I thought it was. You could also say that
you are aware of the process of awareness.
Awareness is being aware of the
moment using 50% of your focusing abilities. And then using your
past experiences 20%, and using your calculations of the future 20%, and
10% is used for anything random. Most of your focus needs to be in the
moment, if not, who knows where you are? Living in the past? Consumed
about the future? Or thinking about something totally random?
Being aware of something does not necessarily mean that
you understand it. I'm aware of my bad habit but I do nothing to try to
control it. I'm aware of the abuse but I do nothing to stop it.
Being awake does not mean that you're conscious
- Being in a
coma does not mean
that you're totally
unconscious.
Sub-Conscious
-
Automatic Mode -
Subliminal -
Information Overload -
Can't be Aware of
Everything
Direct and Indirect Realism describes the nature of conscious
experiences; out of the metaphysical question of whether the world we see
around us is the
real world itself
or merely an
internal perceptual copy
of that world generated by our conscious experience. Indirect realism is
broadly equivalent to the scientific view of perception that subjects do
not experience the external world as it really is, but perceive it through
the lens of a conceptual framework.
Supraliminal is
existing
above the threshold of consciousness that is required for
conscious perception, or above the threshold that is required to elicit a
response. Being above the threshold of perception of a
stimulus and being adequate to evoke a
response or induce a
sensation.
Qualia are individual instances of subjective, conscious
experience.
The Mind -
Objectivity -
Validity -
Telepathy
Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness. Millions of
people are administered general
anesthesia each
year in the United States alone, but it's not always easy to tell whether
they are actually unconscious. A small proportion of those patients regain
some awareness during medical procedures, but a new study of the brain
activity that represents consciousness could prevent that potential
trauma.
Studying consciousness without affecting it. A new study tests an
alternative to external stimulation for measuring when subjects lose and
regain responsiveness during
sedation and
anesthesia.
Responsiveness is the quality of being
responsive and
reacting quickly. Responding
with
emotion to people and events. Reacting to
a
stimulus.
Brain Waves and Vibrations
-
Love Vibration
Conscious experiences
can’t be found
anywhere in the brain or in the body, and can’t be reduced to any
neural complex activity? So how does 3 pounds of brain tissue create
thoughts, feelings, mental images, and a detailed inner world? Is it the
memories of the past being presented
in the present moment? Is it the memories of the past being used to
predict the future
or to ponder the future? Conscious experience on its own cannot arise from
the brain, or arise from any physical process. So how exactly
consciousness works is still a mystery.
Global Consciousness Project
is a
parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 as an
attempt to detect possible interactions of "
global consciousness" with
physical systems. The project monitors a geographically distributed
network of hardware random number generators in a bid to identify
anomalous outputs that correlate with widespread emotional responses to
sets of world events, or periods of focused attention by large numbers of
people.
Human
Consciousness Project is a professional organization, located at the
University of Southampton, set up to study the nature of consciousness,
the human brain and clinical death.
Conscientiology is a science that studies
consciousness in an integral manner including the ego, soul, spirit,
individual essence, self, intelligent principle.
The
Science of Consciousness (wiki)
Journal of Consciousness is a quarterly published journal by the
"International Academy of
Consciousness" and is
also licensed by EBSCO Publishing. The IAC is formerly known as the
Journal of Conscientiology, which is the English term used to designate
the "Cyncy Review of Conscienciologia Conscientiology".
Subject in philosophy is a being who has a unique consciousness and/or
unique personal
experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with
another entity that exists outside of itself (called an "
object"). A
subject is an
observer and an object is a thing
observed. This concept is
especially important in continental philosophy, where 'the
subject' is a
central term in debates over human autonomy and the
nature of the self.
Person, Place or Thing.
Binding Problem is how the brain
segregates elements in complex
patterns of
sensory input so that they are
allocated to be seen as discrete objects. In other words, when looking
at a blue square and a yellow circle, what neural mechanisms ensure that
the square is perceived as blue and the circle as yellow, and not vice
versa? The segregation problem is sometimes called BP1. Secondly, there is
the combination problem: the problem of how objects, background and
abstract or emotional features are combined into a single experience. The
combination problem is sometimes called BP2. However, the difference
between these two problems is not always clear. Moreover, the historical
literature is often ambiguous as to whether it is addressing the
segregation or the combination problem.
Physical Paradox is an apparent
contradiction in
physical descriptions of the universe.
The Observer and the Observed are One;
the
thinker and his thoughts are one. To experience
the thinker and his
thought as one is very arduous for the thinker is ever taking shelter
behind his thought; he separates himself from his thoughts to safeguard
himself, to give himself continuity, permanency; he modifies or changes
his thoughts, but he remains. This pursuit of thought apart from himself,
this changing, transforming it leads to
illusion. The thinker is his
thought;
the thinker and his thoughts are not two separate processes.
The questioner asks if awareness is different from the object of
awareness. We generally regard our thoughts as being apart from ourselves;
we are not aware of the thinker and his thought as one. This is precisely
the difficulty. After all, the qualities of the self are not separate from
the self; the self is not something apart from its thoughts, from its
attributes.
The self is put together, made up, and the self is not when
the parts are dissolved. But in illusion the self separates itself from
its qualities in order to protect itself, to give itself continuity,
permanency. It takes refuge in its qualities through separating itself
from them. The self asserts that it is this and it is that; the self, the
I, modifies, changes, transforms its thoughts, its qualities, but this
change only gives strength to the self, to its protective walls. But if
you are aware deeply you will perceive that the thinker and his thoughts
are one; the observer is the observed. To experience this actual
integrated fact is extremely difficult and right meditation is the way to
this integration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (wiki).
The Knowledge Argument aims to establish that conscious experience
involves non-physical properties. The argument begins with the claim that
there are truths about consciousness that cannot be deduced from the
complete physical truth. The knowledge argument is a thought experiment
that describes a scientist named Mary who exists in a black-and-white
world where she has extensive access to
physical descriptions of color, but no actual perceptual experience of
color. Mary has learned everything there is to learn about color, but she
has never actually experienced it for herself. The central question of the
thought experiment is whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes
outside of the colorless world and
experiences seeing in color. When Mary exits the Room and sees a ripe
red tomato, she learns a new fact about the sensation of seeing red,
namely its subjective character. Therefore, there are non-physical facts
about color sensations. If there are non-physical facts about color
sensations, then
color sensations are
non-physical events. Therefore, color sensations are non-physical events.
Mary knows everything there is to know about brain states and their
properties. It is not the case that Mary knows everything there is to know
about sensations and their properties. Therefore, sensations and their
properties are not the same (≠) as the brain states and their properties.
Subjective Character of Experience is a term denoting that all
subjective phenomena are associated with a single point of view ("
ego").
Bats are apparently conscious mammals with a way of perceiving their
environment entirely different from that of human beings, it is impossible
to speak of "what is it like to be a bat for the bat" or, while the
example of the bat is particularly illustrative, any conscious species, as
each organism has a unique point of view from which no other organism can gather experience.
Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a
mind-like
quality. Panpsychism is the view that mind or a mindlike aspect is a
fundamental and ubiquitous feature of
reality. It is also described as a
theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists
throughout the universe.
Keith Frankish has an illusionist stance in the theory of
consciousness.
Do other animals have consciousness?
Yes, but not the same kind of consciousness as humans, or do they have the
same type of conscious experience as humans do. Do plants have
consciousness? Yes, but not the same kind of consciousness that humans
experience. Does the
Universe
have
consciousness? Yes, but not the same kind of
consciousness that humans experience. Humans themselves can experience consciousness differently
from one person to the next. A
brain
injury can have an affect on
consciousness.
Education, culture,
drugs and the environment can also have
affects
on consciousness. Consciousness can be seen as being a
mechanistic process of
the brain, but each person would describe their consciousness a little
differently, which means that we are far from understanding consciousness.
We are just beginning to understand our own
consciousness, and humans know of only one type of consciousness. It seems
impossible to experience or even
imagine other types of consciousness,
especially when you already have your own unique type of consciousness.
Any comparison would be extremely difficult to describe. You would have to
be born into a particular consciousness in order to experience it, but
even then, how would you describe it if you are not an intelligent adult
human being? How would you understand a whole new set of senses that you
have no idea how they are supposed to be interpreted? You may be able to
temporally occupy another life form, but you will not experience the
consciousness of that being, only experience it from within your own
consciousness. Like a
near death experience.
You experienced something that can only be explained by having
experience with being alive and being
human. Dreams can seem real, but
dreams are not real when
compared to our
reality when we're fully awake.
Dreams only seem real when we're having them, they don't seem real when
we're trying to explain them when we're awake. You can say that the dream
was real and that you had a real dream, but you can't explain what
real
means when you're dreaming. It's like trying to explain thoughts when you
don't have a
language or the
words needed to describe what thoughts are.
Artificial Consciousness is a field related to
artificial intelligence and
cognitive robotics. Synthesized consciousness. Neuroscience hypothesizes
that consciousness is generated by the interoperation of various parts of
the brain, called the
neural correlates of consciousness or NCC, though
there are challenges to that perspective. Proponents of AC believe it is
possible to construct systems (e.g., computer systems) that can emulate
this NCC interoperation.
Consciousness in humans, animals and artificial intelligence. A new
theory of consciousness provides experimental access to the study of this
phenomenon, and not just in humans. According to the new theory, conscious
cognitive actions take place on the basis of a so-called online platform,
a kind of
central executive that controls subordinate platforms. The
subordinate platforms
can act, for example, as storage media for knowledge or activities.
Conscious
cognitive
operations are
facilitated by
the interaction of different neuronal networks. Electrical
synapses, also known as gap
junctions, are crucial in this context. These structures enable extremely
fast transmission of signals between nerve cells. They work much faster
than chemical synapses, where communication between cells takes place
through the exchange of neurotransmitters and -modulators.
Large-Group Awareness Training refers to activities usually offered by
groups linked with the
human potential movement which claim to increase
self-awareness and bring about desirable transformations in individuals'
personal lives. They are noted for being unconventional and often take
place over several lengthy days.
Boltzmann Brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity that
arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos.
Visual Perception
-
Spatial Awareness
Phonological
Awareness refers to an individual's awareness of the
phonological structure, or
sound structure, of words. Phonological
awareness is an important and reliable predictor of later reading ability
and has, therefore, been the focus of much research.
Words that Help Describe Awareness:
Attention -
Focus -
Intelligence -
Cognition
-
Thinking
-
Executive Functions
-
Brain Plasticity -
Self-Directed Learning -
Know Thyself
-
Morals -
Routines -
Memory -
Self -
Instincts
-
Controls -
Determinism
-
Reality -
Virtual Reality -
Body Smart -
Body Image
-
Identity - Ego.
Inner Monologue
- who are you talking to?
Instrument
is a device that requires
skill for
proper use.
The semantic role of the
entity that is usually
inanimate or not
living, that the
agent uses to
perform an action or start a
process.
Semantic
is of or relating to meaning or the study of
meaning.
Entity is that which is
perceived or
known or
inferred to have its own
distinct existence either living or nonliving.
Device is an
instrumentality invented for a particular purpose. Something
in an
artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect.
An emblematic
design.
Emblematic is something serving as a
visible symbol for something
abstract. Being or serving as
an illustration of a type.
What cannot be seen that makes
seeing possible? What cannot be heard that makes hearing possible? What
cannot be touched that makes touching possible? What cannot be imagined
that makes imagination possible?
Orchestrated Objective Reduction
is a hypothesis that consciousness in the brain originates from processes
inside neurons, rather than from connections between neurons.
Five Universals:
Contact,
Attention, Feelings, Perception, and Volition.
Five
Wits are "common wit", "imagination", "fantasy", "estimation", and
"memory". -
Five Senses -
Five Elements.
Skandha refers to the five aggregates concept that asserts
five elements constitute and completely explain a sentient being’s mental
and physical existence. The five aggregates or heaps are: form (or matter
or body) (rupa), sensations (or feelings, received from form) (vedana),
perceptions (samjna), mental activity or formations (sankhara), and
consciousness (vijnana).
Eight Consciousness's is a classification developed in the
tradition of the Yogacara school of
Buddhism. They enumerate the five
senses, supplemented by the mind, defilements of the mind, and finally the
fundamental store-house consciousness, which is the basis of the other
seven. Eight Consciousness's or five sense consciousnesses, supplemented
by the mental consciousness (manovijñāna), the defiled mental
consciousness, and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness (ālāyavijñāna),
which is the basis of the other seven. This eighth consciousness is said
to store the impressions of previous experiences, which form the seeds (bīja)
of future karma in this life and in the next after rebirth.
Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right resolve,
right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right
mindfulness, and right samadhi A meditative
absorption or union, or equanimous meditative awareness. Equanimous in
full control of your faculties. poised Marked by balance or equilibrium
and readiness for action. Be motionless, in suspension. Cause to be
balanced or suspended.
Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a holistic model of the eight
circuits, or eight systems or "brains" that operate within the human
nervous system. Each corresponds to its own imprint and subjective
experience of reality. It is a potential route towards reconciling
different interpretations of what it means to be a human being.
Electromagnetic theories of consciousness proposes that consciousness
can be understood as an electromagnetic phenomenon.
Threefold
Training includes higher virtue, higher mind, and higher wisdom.
Four Noble
Truths (wiki)
Vipassana Movement is to attain wisdom, and the beginning of
awakening and
becoming a
stream-enterer.
Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Disorders of Consciousness are organic mental disorders in
which there is impairment of the ability to maintain awareness of self and
environment and to respond to environmental stimuli.
Collective Unconscious.
Hemispatial Neglect is a neuropsychological condition in
which, after
damage to one
hemisphere of the brain is sustained, a deficit in attention to and
awareness of one side of space is observed. It is defined by the inability
of a person to process and perceive stimuli on one side of the body or
environment, where that inability is not due to a lack of sensation.
Hemispatial neglect is very commonly contralateral to the damaged
hemisphere, but instances of ipsilesional neglect (on the same side as the
lesion) have been reported.
NYU
Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that everything that is experienced really
only happens inside your head. In order to reach ultimate
enlightenment
through the mind, however, people must gain control over the essential
energy that animates all existence,
prana;
the primary way to tame that tiger is by controlling the mind. Adherents,
therefore, take two courses on their journey to perfect enlightenment,
the Path of Means and the Path of Liberation.
Cotard Delusion is a person who believes they are
dead.
You can modify your
awareness and sharpen a
sense, but you
have to train a particular sense for a particular purpose. If you want to
train your ears to hear a particular sound, you have to practice
listening to that
sound so that you can hear that sound under different conditions.
Sometimes you don't have to be
focusing on
hearing a particular sound, you just have to know how to
recognize that
sound and know what that sound means. This
skill and
ability is a
strength, but it's also a
vulnerability. Heightened
senses can be distracting if you're sensitive to certain signals that do
more harm than good. Heightened senses can also be harmful if you're
misinterpreting the
signals or not
understanding the information that you're receiving. So a strength can
also be a weakness. When learning to be aware, you have to be aware that
you
can't be aware of everything. And
if you want to be aware of anything, you have to learn what you're trying
to be aware of. Accurately
processing
information is the most valuable skill that you can have. Processing
knowledge
and
information
needs knowledge and information. The more knowledge and information you
have, the more knowledge and information you can process. And the more
knowledge and information that you can process, the more knowledge and
information you can use to produce potential energy by effectively
applying your knowledge and information to solve problems and to make
advancements.
People are
asking if
artificial intelligence
will someday become intelligent enough to become conscious of itself? People
should be asking themselves that same question. When do you become
intelligent enough
to be conscious of yourself? And how will you know how intelligent you are
or how conscious you are? How do you know when you're conscious when you
wake up
after sleeping? Just wondering. If schools, colleges and universities
are mostly just manufacturing facilities that helps to create obedient
workers and mindless consumers. Then humans are being treated just like
they're machines. Of course humans are much more than just a machine.
Humans are the machine, the machine for consciousness.
Dualism - Two Sides
Dualism
implies that there are two
moral opposites at
work, independent of any interpretation of what might be "moral" and
independent of how these may be represented.
Dualism denotes the
state of two parts. The term dualism was originally coined to denote
co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical
and philosophical duality discourse but has
been more generalized in other usages to indicate a
system which contains
two essential parts.
Two Sides to a Story -
Two Sides of the
Brain - Shoulder Angel
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Imagination -
Narrative Modes -
Pros and Cons -
Good and Bad -
Seeing the Whole
Picture -
Balance -
Mind -
Diversity -
Choice -
Vicarious -
Empathy -
Soul and Body - Mind and Body -
Out of Body Experience -
Meditation -
Half Asleep -
Conscious and Subconscious -
Particle and Anti Particle
Dualism or
Duality is the position that mental phenomena are, in some
respects, non-physical, or that the
mind and body are not identical. Thus,
it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and
matter, and between subject and object, and is contrasted with other
positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.
Double-Aspect Theory is the view that the mental and the physical are
two aspects of, or perspectives on, the same substance. It is also called
dual-aspect monism, not to be confused with mind–body dualism.
Monism is the view that attributes
oneness or
singleness.
Ghost in the
Machine is British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's description of
René Descartes'
mind-body dualism, which is the position that mental phenomena are, in
some respects,
non-physical, or that the
mind and body are not identical.
Overview Effect (seeing earth from space)
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Simulation (virtual reality) -
Philosophy
Materialism
is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the
fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental
phenomena and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
Physicalism is the ontological thesis that "everything is physical",
that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything
supervenes on the physical. Physicalism is a form of ontological monism—a
"one substance" view of the nature of reality as opposed to a
"two-substance" (dualism) or "many-substance" (pluralism) view. Both the
definition of "physical" and the meaning of physicalism have been debated.
Type Physicalism is a physicalist theory, in the
philosophy of mind. It asserts
that mental events can be grouped into types, and can then be correlated
with types of physical events in the brain. For example, one type of
mental event, such as "mental pains" will, presumably, turn out to be
describing one type of physical event (like C-fiber firings). (also known
as reductive materialism, type identity theory, mind–brain identity theory
and identity
theory of mind).
Non-Physical Entity is a spirit or being that
exists outside
of physical reality. Their existence divides the philosophical school of
physicalism from the schools of
idealism
that believes that reality is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed,
or otherwise immaterial. And
dualism that states that the mind and body are not identical.
Abstract.
Cognitive Biology regards natural
cognition as a
biological function. It is based on the theoretical assumption that every
organism—whether a single cell or multicellular—is continually engaged in
systematic acts of cognition coupled with intentional behaviors, i.e., a
sensory-motor coupling.
Quantum Mind
is a
group of hypotheses propose that classical mechanics cannot explain
consciousness. It posits that quantum mechanical phenomena, such as
quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the
brain's function and could form the basis of an explanation of consciousness.
Perception - Perceptual Powers
Perception is the
organization,
identification, and
the personal
personal interpretation of
sensory information that is used to
represent and
understand the
environment. Perception involves
receiving
signals from the
nervous system
that are the result from
physical or
chemical
stimulation of the sense organs.
Social Perception -
Memory -
Perspective -
Consciousness
Perceive
is to become
aware of something through the
senses and become
conscious of something or
observe
something without
bias.
Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience
subjectively.
Our perception and our
perceived
reality can be
skewed by many different things, like
previous
experiences, our
level of knowledge, a
sensory malfunction, our
expectations and our
beliefs, just to name a few. We can be easily
fooled by
illusions and
misinformation, and our
observations can be flawed. So
perception is
relative.
Perspective is the
appearance of things
relative to one
another as determined by their
distance from the viewer
or by a persons
personal point of view
and
level of knowledge.
Imperceptible is something impossible
or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses.
Vague
Put Something into Perspective is to
compare something with a similar thing to give a clearer, more accurate
idea. To look at
the whole
picture and seeing things in their proper relation and proportion to everything else. The
idea is something like stepping back from the thing you are concerned
about so you can see other things too.
Selective
Perception is not really seeing the truth or seeing.
Perceptual Control Theory is a model of
behavior based on the
principles of
negative feedback, but differing in important respects from
engineering control theory.
Results of PCT experiments have demonstrated that an organism controls
neither its own behavior, nor external environmental variables, but rather
its own perceptions of those variables. Actions are not controlled, they
are varied so as to cancel the effects that unpredictable environmental
disturbances would otherwise have on controlled perceptions.
Will Power -
Enlightenment.
Detect is to
determine the
existence, presence, or fact of something.
Acknowledge -
Sensor.
Detected is to perceived with the
mind and
discover or
determine the existence, presence, or
fact of
something.
Detection is the
perception that something has occurred or some state exists. The act of
detecting something;
catching
sight of something. The detection that a
signal
is being received.
Notice is to
discover
or determine the existence, presence, or fact of something.
Paying attention. Express
recognition of the
presence or existence of something, or the acquaintance with something.
Conspicuous is something standing out
so as to be clearly visible. Attracting notice or attention. Obvious to
the eye or mind without any attempt at concealment.
Manifest is to reveal its presence or
make an appearance. To provide evidence for and to stand as proof for a
cause. To show by one's
behavior, attitude, or external attributes. Manifest can also mean a
document that lists the
contents put on a ship or plane during
shipping.
Manifestation -
Mental Images.
Apparent is something that is
clearly revealed to the
mind or the
senses or
judgment.
Reveal is to make visible or to make known
information to the public that was previously known only to a few people
or that it was meant to be kept a
secret.
Seem is when something
has a certain impression or has a certain outward aspect. Appearing to
exist and be true, probable, or apparent.
Appear to one's own
mind or
opinion.
Virtual Reality Seems Real.
Deem is to view something as real without
proof or evidence.
Belief.
Impression is a
vague idea in which
some
confidence is placed. Something that
has an outward appearance or a clear and telling mental image.
An impressionistic portrayal of a person.
Representation is something known or
visualized to the mind in the form of an
idea or
image. A creation that is
a visual or
tangible rendering of someone or something.
Discernible is something capable of
being perceived clearly and capable of being seen or noticed and
perceptible by the senses or intellect.
Observable.
Exteroception (senses) -
Introspection -
Orientation -
Perspective
Brain Arousal Compound Noradrenaline Plays Critical Role in Sensory
Perception -
Hormones
Umwelt
meaning "environment" or "surroundings".
Subjectivism
(subjective) -
Relativism
Existentialism is the belief that
philosophical thinking
begins with the human subject—not merely the
thinking subject,
but the acting, feeling, living human individual
Apparitional Experience is an anomalous, quasi-perceptual
experience. It is characterized by the apparent perception of either a
living being or an inanimate object without there being any material
stimulus for such a perception. The person experiencing the apparition is
awake, excluding dream visions from consideration.
Physical
Body is an identifiable collection of matter, which may be
more or less constrained by an identifiable boundary, to move together by
translation or rotation, in
3-dimensional space.
Spatial Intelligence -
Beyond our Senses
Externalism states that the
conscious mind is not only the
result of what is going on
inside the nervous system or the brain, but
also what occurs or exists outside the subject. It is contrasted with
internalism which holds that the mind emerges from neural activity alone.
Externalism is a belief that the mind is not just the brain or functions of the brain.
Externalization is an unconscious
defense mechanism by which
an individual "
projects" his or her own internal characteristics onto the
outside world, particularly onto other people. For example, a patient who
is overly argumentative might instead perceive others as argumentative and
himself as
blameless. Like other defense mechanisms, externalization is a
protection against anxiety and is, therefore, part of a healthy, normally
functioning mind. However, if taken to excess, it can lead to the
development of a neurosis. Externalization can also be used in the context
of a corporation. A corporation that
externalizes its costs onto society
and the environment is
not taking full responsibility
and
ownership of these costs. An example might be the
discharge of untreated toxic waste
into a river where people wash and fish.
Internalize is part of one's nature by learning or
unconscious
assimilation.
Internalization describes the psychological outcome of a
conscious
mind reasoning about a specific subject; the subject is internalized, and
the
consideration of the subject is internal. Internalization of ideals
might take place following religious conversion, or in the process of,
more generally, moral conversion. Internalization is directly associated
with learning within an organism or business and recalling what has been
learned.
Phenomenology of Perception
is a 1945 book by French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in which
Merleau-Ponty expounds his thesis of "the primacy of perception".
Teachers.
Selective
Perception is the tendency not to notice and more quickly forget
stimuli that cause emotional discomfort or
contradicts our prior
beliefs.
Bias.
Inattentional Blindness or perceptual blindness, is a psychological
lack of attention that is
not associated with any vision defects or
deficits. It may be further defined as the event in which an individual
fails to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight. When it
simply becomes impossible for one to attend to all the stimuli in a given
situation, a temporary blindness effect can take place as a result; that
is, individuals fail to see objects or stimuli that are unexpected and
quite often salient, which is something that thrusts itself into
attention.
Patterns.
Naive
Realism is a philosophy of mind rooted in a theory of
perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct
awareness of the external world. In contrast, some forms of
idealism assert that no world exists apart from mind-dependent
ideas and some forms of skepticism say we cannot trust our
senses.
Gullible.
Naive Realism in psychology is a human tendency to believe
that we see the world around us
Objectivity,
and that people who
disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or
biased.
Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception
reliable, efficient. First detailed mapping and modeling of
thalamus inputs onto
visual cortex neurons show
brain leverages “
wisdom
of the crowd” to process sensory information. The brain’s cerebral
cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed
through a region called the thalamus.
Neural Correlate of a content of
experience is any bodily
component, such as an electro-neuro-biological state or the state assumed
by some biophysical subsystem of the brain, whose presence necessarily and
regularly
correlates with such a specific content of experience.
Mindful - Present Moment Awareness - Here and Now
Mindfulness is the
psychological process of bringing one's
attention to the
internal
mind, and
witnessing the external
experiences that are occurring in the
present moment. Mindfulness is
putting your mind
on pause and
taking a break from
our
busy world, in order to
self reflect and rest. Mindfulness is the ability to be
aware of your own
thoughts, and to
examine your current
thoughts and determine the
origin
of your thoughts by back-tracking and recognizing where the
thoughts began, as
well as, understanding the
interpretation
and the
meaning of those
thoughts, using your current level of
understanding and
knowledge. Mindfulness is
exercising your control over your
own thoughts,
especially
run away thoughts. To
lead thyself one must
first
know thyself. Mindfulness can be developed through the
practice of
awareness,
meditation,
intervention and other
training
methods. Mindfulness is a skill. The
more you learn, the
more you practice,
the
more control you will have.
Present in a
temporal sense is the
period of time
that is now existing or happening now.
Being or
existing in a specified
place. An intermediate between
past
and
future. Any continuous stretch of
time including the moment of speech in consideration.
Now is the present moment in this
time. At
this point in the narration of a series of past events.
Nowness is the quality or state of
existing or occurring in or
belonging to the present
time.
Presentism is the view that neither the future nor the past exists.
Metacognition is the
awareness of one’s own
cognition or
thinking. An
awareness of one's
thought processes,
and an
understanding
of the
patterns behind
them in order to
regulate them or to
control them.
Manifestation as a
self-help exercise refers to
focusing your
thoughts on a desired outcome—through practices like mindfulness,
visualization, and
meditation—in order to try to bring it into
reality. Essentially, the idea is that you think your personal goals into
existence.
Self Analyzing -
Knowing Thyself -
Emotion Regulation -
Positive Thinking
-
Simple -
Simplicity -
Clarity -
Filtering -
Inner
Goals -
Baseline -
Reboot -
Mindful Awakening -
Mindful Enlightenment
Cognitive Reframing or
cognitive restructuring is a therapeutic process that helps a person
to discover, challenge, and modify or replace negative and
irrational thoughts.
Philosophy of the Mind -
Time Perception -
Time Management -
20 Minute Rule -
Mental Intervention
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Psychedelics -
Controls -
Can't Control Everything
Mindful Eating is being aware when eating
in order to maximize the experience of eating good food. You should engage
all the senses and explore all the flavors and smells. Savor small bites
and chew your food thoroughly, and eat slowly to avoid overeating.
Acknowledge where the food was grown and praise the person who prepared
the meal and be grateful for their cooking skills and their knowledge of
spices and herbs.
Being mindful a few times a day is a great way to
catch yourself before you
fall down a rabbit
hole.
Snap Out of It means to
wake up from a
depressed state of mind that was caused by a
bad
experience. When your own
thoughts
become a burden on your mind, you can easily lose yourself and become
dysfunctional. Snaping Out of It
is to
quickly realize
and become aware that you were in a
trance
like state or stuck in a
negative mood
that was
distracting you from reality.
Snap is analogous to a hypnotist
snapping their fingers to
wake you up from
being
hypnotized. When you wake up from a
bad dream when sleeping, it's the
same as waking up from a
self induced day dream. Waking up is always
better. But
waking up
is just the first step. You need a plan, a procedure, a
systems check that
includes mindfulness. You need daily reminders to let you know that you
have more important things to be aware of, and that you have no time for
ruminations. Productive
day
dreaming is a lot more pleasant than
maladaptive day dreaming.
You must be the captain
of your ship. Hoist the sails when times are good, and take down
the sails when bad storms are coming, especially the storms in your mind.
Get Ahold of Yourself means to
become
calm and sensible after a shock or difficult situation. To regain
your self control and common sense.
Mental
Storm is when
uncontrollable thoughts and fears start swirling
around and twisting in your mind as if were a hurricane in your head. The
storm grabs hold of your mind and wreaks havoc like a bad storm.
To Free Your Mind you have to learn how to
free yourself by understanding the things
that control you and by understanding the things that influence you. Once
you understand these controls, you can then
control the controls that control you. And little by little, you
will have almost total control over these controls. Now you can be in
control a lot more than ever before. Knowledge is power, and this power
can be used to free yourself and be used to
free your mind.
Mindfulness at work protects against stress and burnout. The study
showed that employees who were more mindful were less exposed to
adverse impacts of the
dark side of the digital workplace.
Being
able to be mindful is a great skill. But you just can't be mindful, you
also have to be
knowledgeable about what mindful is and understand why you
need to be mindful. You should know your reset
baseline. You should know your
mission statement. Mindful is not just
being aware, mindful is also knowing what awareness is. Mindful is
defining what you want to be mindful of. Mindful is not just a random
pause, but a reminder of
who you are. You
have to be you, no matter where your mind takes you. When you're not
mindful and not engaged with work or other activities, then you're most
likely experiencing
random free thinking
thoughts. The real you is much more interesting than those thoughts.
Random thoughts is what your mind does when you're not aware of what
you're thinking. This when your thoughts are unchained and random. There
is no off button in the brain, but you do have a function switch between
focused thinking and random or
uncontrolled thinking.
You are either mindful and not mindful. The brain is a living and
breathing machine. You should acknowledge yourself, as well as,
acknowledge the fact that
the brain you
have is a machine. You need to maintain it, you need to feed it with
good knowledge and healthy food, and you also need to appreciate the mind
and respect the mind.
Mindfulness can get wandering thoughts back on track. Psychology
research investigates collective views on how to abate mind wandering with
mindfulness. Mindfulness is the ability to
intentionally focus attention on the present moment, which can be
effective for
reducing mind wandering,
though results do differ depending on the research methodology.
Reframe the situation. Remind your
primal brain that you are in control
and that you are governed by
rationality and
neuropsychology.
Rumination.
How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes. Meditation that
focuses awareness on feelings, thoughts or sensations as they unfold in
one's mind and body, can alter brain activity in a way that suggests
increased error recognition. A certain neural signal occurs about half a
second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to
conscious error recognition. The strength of this signal is increased in
the meditators relative to controls. These findings are a strong
demonstration of what just 20 minutes of meditation can do to enhance the
brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes.
Mindfulness training may lead to altered states of consciousness.
Mindfulness training may lead participants to experience disembodiment and
unity -- so-called altered states of consciousness -- according to a new
study.
"I can't talk to you right now because I'm living in the moment, can I
talk to you later?"
"The truth is in the present moment, all else
is an illusion. Your inner truth knows continuity."
Core Self-Evaluations represent a stable personality trait which
encompasses an individual's
subconscious, fundamental
evaluations about
themselves, their own abilities and their own control. People who have
high core
self-evaluations will
think
positively of themselves and be confident in their own abilities.
Conversely, people with low core self-evaluations will have a negative
appraisal of themselves and will lack
confidence.
You have to
know what being awake is, and know what being
alive is. You have to practice being awake or
mindful. Most people are
walking around unconscious, like sleep walking.
Movement and
actions do not say that you're
conscious. Most people are
either
living in the past or
thinking
about the future, people are hardly ever living in the present moment.
The Sleeper has Awaken -
Enlightenment
Every once in a while do a
systems
check, and then say hello to yourself, and then tell yourself that you
haven't forgot about you. So where did we leave off? Oh yah, I was
thinking about something.
Emotion Regulation -
Will Power -
Break Out of Your Shell
If you knew of a place where you could go that would make you feel
normal and happy, you would want to visit that place everyday. That place
is your mind. When you become mindful of your state of mind, you can be
more in control of your thoughts and your feelings, instead of being
subconsciously controlled by influences that
you are not totally aware of. When understand the human body as a whole,
you can become a whole person, instead of randomly reacting to things that
you are not totally aware of.
Self-
Reflection is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and the
willingness to learn
more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence.
Human Self-Reflection
(mirrors).
Introspection is the
examination of
one's own conscious
thoughts and
feelings, an observation of your
desires
and
conduct.
Inner-Monologue.
Selective
Perception (not really seeing the truth) -
Stop and Smell the Roses.
Protoself. Antonio Damasio's three layered theory of
consciousness is based on a
hierarchy of stages, with each stage building
upon the last. The most basic representation of the organism is referred
to as the Protoself, next is Core Consciousness, and finally, Extended
Consciousness.
Critical Consciousness focuses on achieving an in-depth
understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of
social and political contradictions. Critical consciousness also includes
taking action against the
oppressive
elements in one's life that are illuminated by that understanding.
Activism (awoke).
Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of
consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent
cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world such as
communication, ambulation, eating, and sex. Being awake is the opposite of
the state of being
asleep in which
most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.
Hypnagogic (sleeping).
Self Conscious is an acute sense of
self-awareness. It is a
preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of
self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual
being; although some writers use both terms interchangeably or
synonymously.
Self Awareness is the capacity for introspection and the
ability to
Recognize Oneself as an individual
separate from the environment and
other individuals.
Self Perception asserts that people develop their
attitudes (when there is no
previous attitude due to a lack of experience, etc.—and the emotional
response is ambiguous) by observing their own behavior and concluding what
attitudes must have caused it.
Perspective.
Orexin is a neuropeptide that regulates arousal,
wakefulness, and appetite. The most common form of narcolepsy, in which
the sufferer briefly loses muscle tone (cataplexy), is caused by a lack of
orexin in the brain due to destruction of the cells that produce it.
Motivational aspects of mindfulness: Quality differs by situation.
Self Smart -
Sub-ConsciousWhen we are
mindful, we are remembering do
take a
break and to be aware of something important, like the present moment.
We pause our
subconscious mind in order to
stay in control of our mindfulness.
Autonoetic Consciousness (looking back)
-
Spirituality
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to
feel as if they were present, to
give
the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via
telerobotics, at a place other than their true location. Telepresence
requires that the users' senses be provided with such stimuli as to give
the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, users may be
given the ability to affect the
remote location. In this
case, the user's position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed,
transmitted and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this
effect. Therefore information may be traveling in both directions between
the user and the remote location. A popular application is found in
telepresence videoconferencing, the highest possible level of
videotelephony. Telepresence via video deploys greater technical
sophistication and improved fidelity of both sight and sound than in
traditional
Video
Conferencing. Technical advancements in mobile collaboration have also
extended the capabilities of videoconferencing beyond the boardroom for
use with hand-held mobile devices, enabling collaboration independent of
location.
Virtual Reality.
How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes. New research tested
how open monitoring meditation altered brain activity in a way that
suggests increased error recognition.
Cultivate Presence Tips: Practice presence throughout your day. Be
mindful throughout the day to replace negative with positive thoughts.
Don't be self-conscious, be fully focused in the present. Be connected to
and aware of your feelings and bodily sensations. Accept your thoughts,
sensations, and feelings without judgment and notice whether your thoughts
and feelings are related to the present. When you feel pain in the
present, don’t reject it. Accept it, and let it pass through you. Connect
to your senses. Listen to and honor bodily needs and impulses. Accept that
unpleasant events are learning opportunities to grow. Practice gratitude.
Speak to yourself kindly with encouragement and gentleness as you would a
young child. Practice mindful meditation. Accept yourself and don't be
controlled by fear, shame, or your past. Be authentic and don’t hide who
you are or your thoughts and feelings. Know who you are and keep your
needs, thoughts, and feelings are separate. Take responsibility for your
feelings, words, actions, and avoid triggers with “I” statements. Be aware
of your breathing, breathe into your belly and not in your chest.
When speaking with someone, make eye
contact. and fully listen without an agenda. Don’t react to or defend
yourself from others’ opinions. Don't expect to be treated with respect,
but protect yourself courteously when you feel your boundaries are
crossed. Keep your communication honest, direct, and assertive. Don’t try
to fill silences, or try to impress anyone or seek their approval. Feel
equal and connected to others.
333 Rule
is a grounding technique that redirects attention from intense and
uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety like worry, unwanted thoughts, or even
panic to the present by shifting focus to three bodily senses: sight,
hearing and touch/movement.
What are 3 things you
can see? Look for the specific qualities of your surroundings, such
as colors, shapes, or other remarkable characteristics. Try looking for
things that you have never noticed before, such as different shades of
blue or various patterns.
What are 3 things you
can hear? Listen for specific sounds happening around you.
Isolating sounds that you normally tune out can enhance the experience.
What are 3 things you can touch or move?
Exploring the qualities (weight, texture, etc.) of tangible objects near
you are a great way to feel grounded. Analyze them—how would you describe
them? What is the sensation of touching them like?
Conscience - Knowing Right from Wrong
Conscience
is
knowing right from wrong and having a sense
of
ethical and
moral principles that helps
to
govern one's thoughts and actions. A conscience can also produce a
feeling of
shame and
remorse when a
person does something immoral or wrong. Having a conscience can also been
seen as an
aptitude, faculty,
intuition or
moral
judgment
that assists in
distinguishing right from wrong,
without making
assumptions,
contradictions or
pretending to know
things.
Conscientious is showing extreme
care and great
effort that is guided by a
good sense of right
and wrong and in accordance with having a conscience.
Empathy -
Compassion -
Honesty -
Remorse -
Regret -
Feeling Sorry
Moral Integrity is doing the right
thing when no one is watching. Moral integrity is when we know what is
right and wrong, and we choose to do the right thing.
What do you Know?
Is
truth
in the eye of the beholder? Is your
inner voice y
our
shoulder angle?
Crisis of Conscience is when someone is worrying and
concerned and stressed because they
have
realized that
they have done something
unfair or
morally wrong.
Denial
-
Ego -
Anterior Cingulate Cortex -
Fronto-Insular Cortex -
Correlation -
Free Will Illusion -
Dumbed Down Education -
Psychopaths
Clear Conscience - "A clean conscience
makes a soft pillow." "A clear conscience contributes to a good nights
rest." Having a clear conscience means that you can sleep soundly and not
be awake with
feelings of guilt and
negativity. When you know that you have been an honest, kind, fair and
compassionate person, you sleep better becuase you're not troubled by
guilt. Having a clear conscience is not about
ignoring the mistakes you've made,
or forgetting the mistakes you've made, it's about
acknowledging
your mistakes and learning from your mistakes. A guilty conscience is
only good if you are aware of your mistakes and take responsibility for
your mistakes by taking the necessary steps to right the wrongs that you
committed.
Confessing your sins
is only good if you purposely make the wrongs right again. And you can't
be the only witness to your good deeds, for others should also confirm
your good deeds, objectively and fairly. Mistakes are small when compared
to the good you have done and the good that you will do in the future.
Having
potential is the energy
of the universe, we can't exist without it.
Being Awake does not always mean that you're Conscious
You can't be aware of everything all the time, so we will
always have
blind spots, things that we can not see. Even when we
multitask or find
ourselves
daydreaming,
thinking to ourselves,
worrying or
praying, we know
that we can only effectively
focus on one thing at a time. We can do
several things at once, but we can only be
fully aware of one of those things at
a time. Which is most likely by design, because we would be
over whelmed
with information, so much so, that we would be unable to
live in the moment
and everything would become a blur. We have to apply our focus. And focus can
be manually operated. So it can be
modified to
adapt to our needs. But
just having the ability to focus does not mean that you are
focusing on
what's important. First you have to
master the skill of focusing, and then
you have to learn what you should be focusing on.
You have to know and
understand the things that need your attention. And if you can't see
something or recognize a problem, then you will have a
blind spot. We can
only focus on things that we see or understand. That means we have to
understand the value of
learning, which means that we also have to
understand knowledge, information and
language.
I can't do everything, but
I can do a lot of things.
Off the Radar is a
saying that's used for when someone does not notice an issue or a problem.
Confusion -
Spaced Out -
Highway Hypnosis -
Amnesia -
Brain Injuries -
Zombies -
Mistakes -
Not detected -
Field of View -
Seeing the Whole
Picture -
Enlightenment
Clouding of Consciousness is when a person is
slightly less wakeful
or aware than normal. They are not as aware of time or their surroundings
and find it difficult to pay attention. People describe this subjective
sensation as their mind being "foggy". (also known as
brain fog or mental fog).
Default Mode Network -
Subconscious -
Hypnosis -
Hypnagogia -
Cognitive Decline
Collective Unconscious refers to the unconscious mind and
shared mental
concepts. It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by
Carl Jung. Collective unconscious term represents a form of the
unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of
which the individual is
not aware) common
to mankind as a whole and originating in the
inherited structure of the brain.
Fourth Way is an approach to self-development that teaches how to
increase and focus attention and energy in various ways, and to minimize
day-dreaming and
absent-mindedness. This
inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further
process of change, whose aim is to transform man into "what he ought to
be."
George Gurdjieff was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher,
composer, and dance teacher. Gurdjieff taught that
people are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in
a state of hypnotic "
waking sleep", but
that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and serve
our purpose as human beings. The practice of his teaching has become known
as "The Work", or working on oneself.
Non-REM Parasomnias involves physical or verbal activity during
non-rapid eye movement or Non-REM sleep. People are not fully aware during
these events and usually don't remember them.
Just because you're aware of some things, but not aware of other
things, that doesn't make you stupid.
You can't be aware of
everything all the time. There is always more things happening
around you then you are capable of being aware of. But what is
great about humans, is that we can
choose what to be aware of.
So we can
focus more on
what's important and valuable, and not
have to worry about
the hundreds of other things that are
happening at the same time. There are many things happening
around us all the time. There are many things happening inside
of us all the time. But we can choose what to be aware of. And
how you become aware of something, is by learning everything
that you can about the thing that you are trying to understand.
And the more things that you can understand, the more things you
will be aware of. Awareness increases with knowledge.
Mistakes Happen.
Brain Injury can effect
Consciousness -
Illusions
-
Reality
Being absent while awake: How mind blanking helps us understand
ongoing thinking. Researchers have shown that the phenomenology of '
mind
blanking' challenges the belief that the
human mind is always thinking. The
researchers claim that the rigid neurofunctional profile of mind blanking
could account for the inability to report mental content due to the
brain's inability to differentiate signals in an informative way. While
waiting for the underlying mechanisms to be illuminated, this work
suggests that instantaneous non-reportable mental events can happen during
wakefulness, setting mind blanks as a prominent mental state during
ongoing experience.
Your awareness increases as you learn more, but not always,
because it depends on how you perceive or understand new
knowledge, and how you apply that new knowledge to old knowledge
and old experiences. Knowing who you are is all based on what
you know. And what you know about yourself is based on your
perception of the knowledge and experiences you have had in your
life up to this moment. Awareness is knowing what you are
sensing, seeing, feeling, hearing, touching, smelling and
tasting.
The best part of waking
up is actually waking up. When I first wake up after sleeping, I am not
aware of everything, or am I aware of any changes that occurred during my
sleep. I usually start feeling like myself after I have gone through my
morning routine. I'm mostly in automatic pilot when I first wake up.
When drugs change your
perspective.
Are you aware of what
you are aware of? Just because you see
something or hear something, this does not mean that you are aware it and
understand it.
You can't be aware of something if you don't know what it means. If your
mind is thinking of something else, then your not
focused on anything except your own thoughts. You can remember seeing
something, but you were not paying attention to it. The abilities of
Awareness and Attention are limited, especially when you are not aware of
that 'being aware' is a skill. Understanding awareness and focus is just
the beginning. You also have to understand what exactly you are being
aware of, and also explain what you are focusing on. Having an innate
ability is only valuable when you know how to use that power effectively
and ethically.
I See a lot of People Sleep Walking,
because most people are not fully awake or fully aware. Awareness is something that you
have to deliberately activate, because awareness is not an automatic
function. Awareness is a learned skill. You have to understand exactly
what you're seeing and also accurately understand your thoughts and what
you're thinking. Just because you wake up after sleeping this doesn't mean
that you are fully awake and aware. Awareness has to be manually operated
and be in your control, which means that you have to learn how your
awareness operates and you have to learn how to control your awareness.
Awareness is using a combination of your senses to focus on information
being transmitted from your environment, sometimes focusing on just one
particular aspect of the environment that is of some importance or
something that you wish to learn more about. Awareness is also using a
combination of your senses to focus on information being transmitted from
inside your body and from inside your mind. And you can only do one thing
at a time, because you can't be fully aware of things around you when you
are focusing and being fully aware of yourself and what's happening inside
you. Awareness has its limitations, which is something else that you need
to learn more about. "I don't see Dead People, I just see people who are
not fully awake, so I see Bed People".
Writers Blindness.
How to Tell if a Brain is Awake? Certain EEG features might not always
accurately capture the level of consciousness in surgical patients
prefrontal cortex, which has been shown to play a role in attention,
self-processing and coordinating consciousness. The brain of someone in
REM sleep is almost identical to an awake brain.
Half Asleep (not fully
awake).
Predictable
is always present in our world, but
unpredictable is also always
present, mostly because we can never be aware of everything
that's around us. In order to be effective you have to be
selective and focus on one or two things at a time. So does this
mean that life is too unpredictable, no, it just means that we
need more people working as a team with each person being aware
and monitoring that particular area of the world. And then each
person reports that information to a central unit, or you.
We
already do this to a certain degree. If we defined all the
things we should be paying attention too, that are important or
dangerous, and if everyone worked as a team focusing on all the
possibilities, then we would have more certainty in the world
and less uncertainty in our lives.
Millions of Sensors keeping
track of everything around you in the world, notifying you of
any changes or any dangers. We depend on each other.
"Anybody can be
caught off guard because it's impossible to stay on guard
all the time. But you still need to recognize when you are
being attacked
so that you have a chance to put up your guard in order to
defend
yourself. Some battle wounds take a long time to heal so you need to
defend yourself as best as you can, Touché."
"But just being aware does not mean that you
understand. "Awareness is just the first step in many steps
that are part of a long process called learning."
"WTF was I Thinking? I was not thinking because I was not fully
aware."
"The more things you know and understand,
the more things you can be aware of."
"We are part of the same thing that we are
trying to understand."
"Is it just you? Or is it a premonition? Or
maybe an indication of something? You have to be able to tell
when it's just you, and not something serious, otherwise, you'll
be always worrying about things that only exist in your mind,
and that is the type of
stress that will do more harm then a real problem that you
may encounter, or ,more then an actual stressful moment that you
may face."
"Attention can be thought of as what you allow your eyes to
look at."
Spatial intelligence.
People are sometimes
unaware of
how they feel and
unaware of what they see.
Consciousness
does not happen
automatically. Consciousness is something that
you initiate. In a sense you are
directing your focus inward or
outward for a particular reason. But just because you are
conscious, that
does not say that you are
conscious of the right things, or for
the right reasons, or in the most accurate way possible.
Consciousness is a process that we are just beginning to
understand and a gift that we are just learning how to use.
Illusion of Control.
Depersonalization is an anomaly of
self awareness. It can consist of a
reality or detachment within the
self, regarding one's
mind or body, or being
a
detached observer of oneself. Subjects feel they have changed, and the
world has become vague,
dreamlike, less real, or lacking in significance.
It can be a disturbing experience.
"Just under half the time, about 46.9% to be exact, people
are doing what's called '
mind
wandering'. They are not focused on the outside world or the
task at hand, they are looking into their own thoughts.
Unfortunately, the study of 2,250 people proposes, most of this
activity doesn't make us feel happy."
Change.
"There are things that everyone can relate
to, but not everyone relates to those things in the exact same
way. Everyone Sees Things a little Differently."
Ideology.
Awareness is part of your
Perception, which is based on your particular
knowledge and
experiences and how you understand that particular knowledge and
experiences.
You can have a broad awareness or may have a more
Focused awareness.
I can say I'm aware of my hand, but I may not be aware of the
truck that is about to hit me.
Orientation -
Confusion
"We are the mind, and the mind is us. We
can examine the mind and the body, we can even examine the soul,
which means we can
examine the examiner."
Information and
knowledge gives a person a profound awareness, the only down
side is that the awareness makes you aware of the bad as well as
the good, and how you react will depend on your level of
knowledge.
Familiarity Heuristic is an easy-to-compute procedure or
"rule of thumb" that people use when forming beliefs, judgments or
decisions.
Bias.
"It's easy for people to disconnect from
reality, especially when
reality is not clearly defined."
The bottom line is, you can't
be aware of everything because there is only so much that you
can be aware of at one time. And you can only be aware of the
things that are known to you. So the more you know, the more
things you will be aware of. But even then, just because you are
aware of more things does not necessarily mean that you can be
aware of those things at all times. You can't be aware of
everything at once, so you have to be
Selective and choose a small number of things that you need
to be aware of at that moment in time.
Attention -
Focus
-
Priorities Sooner or later you will have to change your focus...You only have so much
processing
power, so you have to use it wisely.
I know that I'm
not always aware of certain things from time to time, which is normal,
because I know that we can't always be aware of everything all the time, especially
things that can have an effect on our lives. We have to
focus and pay attention to
certain things that we feel are important to us, which
filters out other things
that are just as important. So we need to
balance our
priorities and learn
how to
multitask, especially when we need to pay attention to several things at the
same time, or do things within the same time period. Humans are not always
effective at being fully aware all the time. There are many things in
our
bodies and in the environment that can effect human awareness and
interfere with our ability to be diligent and be in control. And on top of
that, humans can be
spontaneous and be very
adaptable. So we need our focus
to change at times and we need to be open to changes. And we need to see
our
distractions as just
signals that we can either ignore or pay
attention to. We need to separate the noise from the signals, especially
the signals that carry
important information. But this is not always easy. So I like to imagine that
there is some form of a deity who is more aware than me and knows my
future, so they help me out from time to time. I believe this because there is
no way that I could do this life without any help from some divine
intervention,
because I'm not that smart. So my hope is that someone else is
picking up
the slack, with the slack being my vulnerabilities and the sometimes
uncontrollable dangers of life and the environment. So why me? Am I the
chosen one? Or am I just some lucky and random phenomenon. This is one of
the reasons why
people believe in a God. Having something or someone outside our awareness
just makes this story more sensible. To think that there's no purpose in
life is not thinking at all. To think that there's nothing makes no sense when
you are using your thinking to think of nothing. It's a contradiction. I
think, there for, I think there's more.
Subconscious - Not Aware - Automatic
Subconscious
is the part of
consciousness that is not currently in
focal awareness.
Underneath the
layers of critical-thought functions of the conscious mind
lay a powerful
awareness that he called the subconscious mind.
Unconscious is someone who is
not conscious and
lacking
awareness and the capacity for sensory perception. That part of the
mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is
unaware and
not mindful.
The part of the mind which is
inaccessible to the
conscious mind but which
affects behavior
and emotions.
Unconscious Mind
consists of the
processes in the
mind which occur
automatically and are
not available to
introspection, and include thought processes,
memories,
interests, and
motivations.
Subliminal
-
Sub Routine -
Sub-Text
-
Autonomous -
Primal Brain -
Dualism -
Sleep Walking -
Unconscious
Memory -
Programed -
Conditioning -
Shoulder Angel
- Dreams -
Daydreams -
Coma -
Control -
Sleep Learning -
Habits -
Instincts -
Contradictions -
Bias -
Denial
Unconscious Spirit is the supposed part of the human spirit or soul
that operates outside of conscious awareness. The idea of the unconscious
spirit suggests that there are deeper aspects of our selves that are not
readily accessible to conscious awareness, but which may hold important
insights, wisdom, and creative potential. It invites us to explore the
depths of our inner world and connect with the spiritual dimensions of our
being. This idea has been explored in various spiritual and philosophical
traditions throughout history. In some religious traditions, the
unconscious spirit may be seen as the source of divine inspiration or
guidance.
Will Power.
Shadow in psychology is an
unconscious aspect
of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading
the ego to resist and project the shadow, leading to a conflict with it.
In short, the shadow is the self's emotional blind spot - the part the ego
does not want to acknowledge - projected as archetypes—or, in a
metaphorical sense-image complexes, personified within the collective
unconscious; e.g., trickster.
The subconscious is
that part of
consciousness that is not currently
in focal awareness. The subconscious mind is always awake and whirring.
It's always working to control your organs and bodily functions while your
conscious mind goes to sleep. That being said, your subconscious still
picks up on everything, still hearing and processing while in a
sleeping state. The
subconscious mind controls heartbeat, blood circulation, regulates
digestion and elimination. In sleep our conscious mind becomes dormant
while the subconscious mind stays fully awake. Science shows that we still
hear and process everything even while asleep. You can reprogram your
subconscious mind in 6 weeks, but if you have poor habits, limiting
success, it can take up to 1 year or longer to reprogram your mind
completely.
Affirmations.
Involuntary in
physiology is being
controlled by the
autonomic nervous system.
Without conscious control and not subject to the
control of the will.
Spaced Out is when a person is
not
completely conscious of what is happening.
Automaticity is the
ability to do things without occupying
the
mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an
automatic response pattern or
habit. It is usually the result of
learning,
repetition, and
practice.
Multitasking.
Autonomous (drones) -
Subliminal -
Brain Washing
-
Passive Learning -
Rote Learning -
Rumors
Process Dissociation Procedure was
introduced as a general-purpose tool for quantifying the extent to which
performance on various
cognitive tasks is mediated by consciously
controlled versus
automatic processes.
Unconscious
fear-related memories can remain
totally hidden from your conscious mind, yet they still
have the ability to dramatically affect everyday
behavior and emotions. Any traumatic memory is automatically stored
in your implicit, unconscious memory. There is a protein called
glutamate that
sears synapses
together in any unique or traumatic experience.
Glutamate is the most abundant free amino acid in the brain and is at
the crossroad between multiple metabolic pathways.
Dreams.
When your thinking and mood changes,
it's just
weird. Something just
comes over you. And most of the time you're not even aware
of it. It's like your mind decides to take a journey, but
doesn't bother to wake you up and let you know about it. You
don't even know how it starts, but you know sometimes when it
ends. That's when you realize and you ask yourself that
question, "
where did my mind just go?" I don't remember telling
my
mind to wonder off. So it dawned on me, I have nothing that
verifies or detects when my awareness changes. So I needed a
system check. A
prime directive, something that says Hello! Are we still here?
It's better to be in
Manual Control where you can be aware of your actions. If
you're in
Autopilot you're not fully aware, and your controls can be
easily manipulated by your
emotions,
habitual behaviors,
Propaganda,
Subliminal Messages as
well by external forces in the
environment.
The Back of your Mind is something you
intend to do, but are not actively thinking about it in order to put it
into action. Something that is understood or known but not actively
considered.
We all believe that we have
total control over
our own
minds, but the truth is that we don't have full control
over our minds, we know our minds seem to act own their own at
times, and it's only when we are aware, that we can question
ourselves whether the
thoughts or the actions are accurate. Everyone has an on
Autopilot,
but too many times we're looking out the window day dreaming,
and only when an alarm goes off, do we realize that we are the
pilot, and that the
Autopilot
is not in control, we are in
control, but not when we're day dreaming. But we need an
Autopilot
because we can't have our hands on the wheel all the time, but
since an
Autopilot
has no brain, we have to find balance without losing control or
diminishing our awareness.
You have to ask yourself a few times a
day..'"Is what I'm doing absolutely necessary at this particular
moment in time?"
What are my
priorities? How much time do I have?
The human brain was designed to make sense of
what ever reality or environment it is born into. This gives a
human incredible survival abilities and also gives a human many
ways to adapt. But this cognitive ability also has
vulnerabilities, because humans can be easily fooled into
believing a reality that does not exist.
Media Literacy
Feel
is to undergo an
emotional sensation or be in a particular state of
mind. Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions,
or indefinite grounds. Undergo passive experience of. Be
Felt or perceived in a certain way. Find by testing or
cautious exploration.
Perceive by a
physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or
muscles. Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional
state. Have a feeling or perception about oneself in
reaction to someone's
behavior or attitude. Produce a
certain impression.
An intuitive awareness. The general atmosphere of a place
or situation and the effect that it has on
people.
Self-Smart -
MeditationSo Why is
Awareness Important? Because you don't want to be oblivious, or unaware, or
uninformed to the point that you become
negligent to yourself or others.
Oblivious is being unaware,
ignorant, lacking conscious
awareness of, Not mindful or attentive, Not showing due care or
attention, lacking all memory or lacking active conscious
awareness or knowledge. (A little different then just
being forgetful). Synonyms: Being inattentive, absentminded,
blind, careless, neglectful, insensible, unconcerned, unconscious,
overlooking, lackadaisical, unobservant, unreflective, unthinking,
wasteful.
Selective Perception
is the tendency not to notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause
emotional discomfort and
contradict our prior beliefs. For example, a teacher may have a
favorite student because they are
biased by in-group
favoritism. The teacher ignores the student's poor attainment. Conversely,
they might not notice the progress of their least favorite student.
Indifferent is
showing no care or concern in
attitude or action, unwilling or refusing to pay heed.
Showing no care or concern in attitude or action, unwilling or
refusing to pay heed.
Ignorant.
Careless is having lack of attention or
consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful. Without due thought or consideration. -
Morality.
Unpredictable
is when something is
not capable of being foretold.
Unknown in advance. Not occurring at expected times.
Calculating is the sum of the values of a random
variable divided by the number of values.
Possibility is future prospect or
potential.
-
Signals.
Not everything is unpredictable or predictable.
Predictable
is the act of
predicting (as by reasoning about the future). Capability of
existing or happening or being true.
Belief about (or mental picture of) the future. Indicate by
signs, forecast. Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing;
either spatially or figuratively. A well-substantiated
explanation of some aspect of the natural world. A proposal
intended to explain certain facts or observations. Confidence of
fulfillment. Tell in advance that something is about to happen.
Judge to be probable.
Anomaly.
Intuition - Beyond our Senses
Intuition
is the ability to acquire
knowledge
without understanding how the
knowledge
was acquired. It's a feeling you get when
you know something is wrong
but you can't explain it because there is a lack
proof, evidence, or conscious
reasoning. You
can only trust your intuition if you can accurately understand it.
Like
having eyes in the back of your head.
Intuitive is
information
obtained through
instinctive knowing, rather than from
reasoning or
observation. An
impression that something might be the case.
Some
idea or action
spontaneously derived
from or
prompted by a
natural tendency.
Intuitively is doing something in an
intuitive manner.
Human Senses -
Wireless Communication
-
Devine Wisdom -
Human Nature -
Implicit Learning
Hunch is an impression that something
might be the case.
Guess.
It's been on the back of my mind for some
time is to express that something is in one's mind but is not consciously
thought of or remembered. If something is in the back of your mind, it
means that you intend to do it, but you are not actively thinking about
it.
Good Vibes is when something feels right.
Good Vibrations.
Bad Vibes is a feeling you get when
something does not feel right and that you feel uncomfortable, uneasy or
unsafe. It's when a person or a situation or particular place makes you
feel uneasy for a reason that you can't explain. Bad vibes are telling you
to be cautious, to watch out and to be careful, or to stay away or don't
do something, or don't trust something or someone.
Premonition is a feeling of evil to
come. An
early
warning about a future event.
Prophecy -
Paranormal -
Time TravelIntuition gives you the feeling that something is wrong or that
something bad is going to happen. But intuition does not tell you the
whole story. It may be bad,
but maybe not all bad. Intuition says this is bad, but your experience and
your knowledge says something good can also happen. Sometimes you have to
take the bad with the good. There is a bright side, but sometimes you have
to go through hell in order to get to heaven. Believe in your intuition
and listen to your intuition, because it's real. Just remember, when
someone tells you that its going to be a rough ride, you should
prepare yourself and get ready.
Intuition can't do everything for you. Use all your
senses, especially your
common sense.
Night of April 14th - A woman has a
recurring nightmare of drowning in cold,
dark water. The next day her fiancé announces that the couple will
honeymoon aboard the
RMS Titanic. Other
premonitions of that disaster are also revealed.
One Step Beyond
Season 1 Episode 2 (youtube) -
Possession.
One Step Beyond was an American anthology series created by Merwin
Gerard. The original series was broadcast for three seasons by the
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from January 1959 to July 1961.
One Step Beyond -
EMERGENCY ONLY S1E3 (youtube) - In a hypnotic trance at a cocktail
party, Ellen Larrabee
predicts a dangerous train
trip for a skeptical witness, thereby preventing a collision.
Harry Lubin - Weird
(youtube) -
Harry
Lubin - Fear (youtube)
Vipassana is a Buddhist term that is often translated as "insight".
Insight us a clear or deep
perception
of a situation. A feeling of
understanding of a
complex situation.
Grasping the
inner nature of things intuitively.
Thought Leader.
Hindsight is understanding of a situation
or event
only after it has happened or developed.
A
realization of the significance and the nature of events
after they have occurred.
Learning from
Mistakes -
Free Will -
Enlightenment -
Planning
Hindsight Bias is also known as the
knew-it-all-along phenomenon or
creeping determinism, refers to the common tendency for people to perceive
events that have already occurred as having been more
predictable than
they actually were before the events took place. Not to be
confused with
inclination
or
bias.
Intuition - Jewel
(youtube) -
Follow
Your Intuition
Visceral is relating to deep
inward feelings rather than to the intellect.
Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation.
Empathy -
More than a Feeling Mirage
-
Paranoia -
Paranormal
-
Fantasies -
Intuition -
Skepticism
Premonition is an alleged
psychic ability to
see events in the future.
A future sight or ESP second sight.
Precognition
is an alleged psychic ability to
see events in the future.
Also called prescience, future vision, future sight, or
second sight, which is a form of extrasensory perception,
the supposed power to perceive things that are not present to the senses,
whereby a person perceives information, in the form of a
vision, about future events before
they happen, or about things or events at remote locations.
Pineal Gland.
Extrasensory Perception or
ESP includes reception of information not
gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the
mind.
Visionary is one who
can
envision the
future.
A
thought leader.
Clairvoyance is the alleged ability to gain information
about an object, person, location or physical event through
extrasensory
perception.
Indigo Children
-
Prophet -
Sensory System -
Phenomenon
Remote Viewing is the ability to travel
out of
one's body to remote locations and see things that are there or
describe things that are there without physically being there. A remote
viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or
location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.
It is the practice of seeking impressions about a
distant
or unseen target, purportedly using extrasensory perception or
sensing with the
mind.
Visualization -
Third Eye Meditation -
Imagination -
Remote Operation -
Wormhole Portals
Third Eye Spies
(youtube) - For more than 20 years the CIA studied remote viewing
abilities for use in their top-secret spy program. With previously
classified details about ESP now finally coming to light, there can be no
more secrets. Experiments at Stanford Research Institute was to utilize
remote viewing abilities for the collection of vital intelligence in
national security efforts.
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 British-American satirical black
comedy war film about an investigation into the attempts by the U.S.
military to employ psychic powers as a weapon — which, in turn, is a
companion to a British miniseries Crazy Rulers of the World.
First Earth Battalion -
New Age.
Telepathy is the purported
transmission of information from
one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or
physical interaction.
Telepathic is
communicating without apparent physical
signals.
Brainwave Synchronization
Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one
point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
Teleportation is often paired with time travel, being that the travelling
between the two points takes an unknown period of time, sometimes being
immediate. There is no known physical mechanism that would allow for
teleportation. Frequently appearing scientific papers and media articles
with the term teleportation typically report on so-called "quantum
teleportation", a scheme for information transfer which, due to the
no-communication theorem, still would not allow for faster-than-light
communication. The use of the term teleport to describe the hypothetical
movement of material objects between one place and another without
physically traversing the distance between them has been documented as
early as 1878.
Quantum teleportation is distinct from regular teleportation, as it
does not transfer matter from one place to another, but rather transmits
the information necessary to prepare a (microscopic) target system in the
same quantum state as the source system. The scheme was named quantum
“teleportation”, because certain properties of the source system are
recreated in the target system without any apparent quantum information
carrier propagating between the two. This is based on the idea of
quantum entanglement. Two
photons that are created at the same moment
share the same existence and are linked in such a way that no matter how
far the distance, any changes happening to one of the objects happens
instantaneously to the other. Using this technology, scientists hope to be
able to communicate across vast distances of space without any delay,
making manned missions to Mars and other planets much more feasible.
Transporter is a
fictional teleportation machine used in the
Star
Trek science fiction franchise. Transporters allow for teleportation
by
converting a person or object into an energy
pattern (a process called "
dematerialization"),
then sending ("beaming") it to a target location or else returning it to
the transporter, where it is reconverted into matter ("
rematerialization").
Since its introduction in Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966, the name
and similar concepts have made their way to other science fiction
scenarios. "
Beam me up, Scotty".
Star Trek Replicator is a machine that can create things and recycle
things. Replicators were originally seen to simply synthesize meals on
demand, but in later series much larger non-food items appear. The
technical aspects of replicated versus "real" things is sometimes a plot
element.
Psychic Link or
Psychic Power is a semi-permanent connection between two minds or
between several people's minds. You always feel connected somehow, picking
up the other persons thoughts and emotions.
Kindred Spirits
-
Sensate -
Empathy
Psycellium or psycelium is a psychic
nervous system that allows
sensates to
connect with one another.
Gateway Process is a 1983 report about using a series of exercises to
produce states of
expanded human consciousness
such as astral projection, outer body experiments, and other altered
states of mind.
Dreams -
Connecting to people in your
dreams, or receiving other peoples dreams.
Lucid Dreaming.
Voices in My Head -
Possession
Astral Projection
is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful
out-of-body experience, a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a
soul or consciousness called an "astral
body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling
outside of it throughout the universe.
Out-of-Body Experience is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the
world from a location outside their physical body.
Remote Viewing.
Noetic is associated
with or requiring the use of the
mind.
Noesis is the psychological result of
perception and
learning and
reasoning.
Institute of Noetic Sciences conducts research on such topics such as
spontaneous remission,
meditation,
consciousness,
alternative healing practices,
consciousness-based healthcare,
spirituality,
human potential,
psychic abilities, psychokinesis and survival of
consciousness after bodily
death. The
Institute maintains a free database, available on the Internet, with
citations to more than 6,500 articles about whether physical and mental
health benefits might be connected to meditation and
yoga.
Time Travel.
Psychokinesis or
Telekinesis, is
an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical
system without physical interaction or touching. Making things move using
only your mind.
Counterintuitive
is a proposition that does not seem likely to be
true when assessed
using intuition, common sense, or
gut
feelings.
Global Consciousness Project is a parapsychology experiment begun in
1998 as an attempt to detect possible interactions of "global
consciousness" with physical systems. The project monitors a
geographically distributed network of hardware
random
number generators in a bid to identify anomalous outputs that
correlate with widespread emotional responses to sets of world events, or
periods of focused attention by large numbers of people. The GCP is
privately funded through the Institute of Noetic Sciences and describes
itself as an international collaboration of about 100 research scientists
and engineers.
Did you ever get that feeling that something was wrong, or
feel something that was not quite right, and you weren't sure what it was?
We have
intuition, which seems to be on
a different level or frequency then the other
Human Senses.
I believe there's more to this thing that we call intuition. We
have learned that there is many different levels of
communication happening all around us. Information is being
transmitted in many different forms, like
resonances,
oscillations and
frequencies. We know that certain animals have evolved to
understand and use certain forms of communication, like
using magnetic fields to navigate, or using electrical and
chemical signals to communicate with each other. Some
information is being received through our 5 senses. So that
means there's a lot of information being transmitted that is
beyond our
5 Senses.
But this information is not beyond human consciousness. The mind
seems to have its own ability to receive information without
using the
5 Senses,
how it works is unknown. But at the speed in which we are
learning, especially in this 21st century, I would say that we
will learn sometime soon, even if we eventfully learn that it
wasn't what we thought it was, because we might not be receiving
signals directly from the source, but maybe indirectly from
plants, animals, space or even the earth. Some people might say
that
God is
trying to communicate with us, which is fine by me. I'm more
interested in understanding these messages. Because if we can
understand the messages, and their importance, then we would
have a better chance of figuring out, who or what, is sending us
messages, whether directly or indirectly. So of course I did a
search on the internet to find out what would be some of the
different ways that we could be receiving information, beyond
our 5 senses, on other
Levels of awareness.
Synesthesia
(mixed senses) -
A Feeling in
Your Gut -
Gaze Perception
Shamanism is a practice that involves a
practitioner
reaching
altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact
with a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this
world.
Interdimensional Doorway
is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.
Parapsychology is a field of study concerned with the
investigation of paranormal and
psychic phenomena which include telepathy,
precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences,
reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims. It
is often identified as pseudoscience.
Ganzfeld Experiment
is a technique used in parapsychology which claims to be able to test
individuals for extrasensory perception or ESP. The ganzfeld experiments
are among the most recent in parapsychology for testing telepathy.
Hallucinations -
Beyond Normal Experience
-
Paranormal -
Psychedelics
Supernatural
includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature,
including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other
supernatural beings, or to things beyond nature.
"I knew things before I understood them,
I knew something wasn't right, but I could not explain it,
more then a feeling"
It's not what you want to happen, it's
more about what you feel is going to happen, an
Intuition, a
Premonition, a
gut feeling, a sense that something
good or pleasing is going to happen in the near future. That's
your body and mind
Predicting the Future. It can also warn you of a bad
decision you are about to make, when you feel uneasy or doubtful. I could
say that it's real because I experienced it, but I can't explain how it
works or use it when I want to or need to. It just happens occasionally,
or maybe it happens more often but I'm not in tune with it or aware of it
as much as I can be, if I could I would use it like a tool.
Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness
proposes that
consciousness can be understood as an
electromagnetic phenomenon.
Magnetic Tunnel Junction is a magnetoresistive effect that
occurs in a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), which is a component
consisting of two ferromagnets separated by a thin insulator. If the
insulating layer is thin enough (typically a few nanometers), electrons
can tunnel from one
ferromagnet into the other. Since this process is
forbidden in classical physics, the tunnel magnetoresistance is a strictly
quantum mechanical phenomenon.
Cell Junction is a type of structure that exists within the
tissue of some
multicellular organisms, such as animals. Cell junctions
consist of multiprotein complexes that provide contact between neighboring
Cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix. They also build up
the paracellular barrier of epithelia and control the paracellular
transport. Cell junctions are especially abundant in epithelial tissues.
Gap Junction may also be called a nexus or macula
communicans. When found in nerves it may also be called an
electrical
synapse. While an ephapse has some similarities to a gap junction, by
modern definition the two are different. Gap junctions are a specialized
intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types. They
directly connect the cytoplasm of two cells, which allows various
molecules, ions and electrical impulses to directly pass through a
regulated gate between cells. One gap junction channel is composed of two
connexons (or hemichannels), which connect across the intercellular space.
Gap junctions are analogous to the plasmodesmata that join plant cells.
Gap junctions occur in virtually all tissues of the body, with the
exception of adult fully developed skeletal muscle and mobile cell types
such as sperm or erythrocytes. Gap junctions, however, are not found in
simpler organisms such as sponges and slime molds.
Virtual Connection is a means of transporting data over a
packet switched computer network in such a way that it appears as though
there is a dedicated physical layer link between the source and
destination end systems of this data.
Virtual Circuit.
Telecommunication Circuit is any line, conductor, or other
conduit by which
information is transmitted.
Microtubule
are involved in maintaining the structure of the cell and, together with
microfilaments and intermediate filaments, they form the cytoskeleton.
They also make up the internal structure of cilia and flagella. They
provide platforms for intracellular transport and are involved in a
variety of cellular processes, including the movement of secretory
vesicles, organelles, and intracellular macromolecular assemblies (see
entries for dynein and kinesin). They are also involved in cell division
(by mitosis and meiosis) and are the major constituents of mitotic
spindles, which are used to pull eukaryotic chromosomes apart.
The Power of Perception Videos
Antonio Damasio: The Quest to understand Consciousness
(video)
Natural Mystery:
Mind over Body (video)
Reality
and the Extended Mind (youtube)
Do the
Test (video to check
awareness, but it's more about focus)
John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness (video)
"Though it seems that I know that I
know, what I would like to know, is the me that sees me, so I
will know that I know that I know....You Know?"
Did you ever have get that feeling that
something incredible was going to happen? You feel good, you
feel calmness, you feel peaceful, you have this feeling that
something good was going to happen. And in that moment, you are
some how connected to that future happiness.
Did you ever have get that feeling that someone
was watching you? Our brains can be sensitive to what our conscious
awareness isn't. An area called the
amygdala, thought to be
responsible for processing emotions and information about faces, can be
more active when we look at faces with direct, rather than averted, gaze.
When we are being watched, the amygdala responds, even though he didn't
know it.
Blind Sight -
Mass Surveillance.
A lot of times your
brain is learning
things without you even knowing it. Your brain does this because
it has too, because you can't be aware of everything that is
happening around you, or can you be aware of everything that is
happening inside you. This gives humans the ability to focus on
what's important without being overwhelmed with everything that
your body and mind is doing,
similar to
processes in a computer. But you can be aware of things that
you choose to be aware of as long as you know how. And that is
where the power of the mind can be used effectively. But you
need the right knowledge and information in order to do it.
There is more
to having an
elevated consciousness, or a
higher level of
awareness, or
realizing your potential, or
realizing the state
you're in, or
realizing your state of mind. There is still a lot
of information and knowledge to be gained in order to fully
understand what having 'awareness' really means. You cannot
willfully manifest yourself into a new world. There's a lot of
learning, a lot of experiencing, and a lot of information and
knowledge to acquire. You cannot just download enormous amounts
of information and knowledge from the universes simply by
opening your mind. This is not to say that you will not
experience something profound or meaningful on your spiritual
journey's, it's just that
meditation can only take
you so far. Though traveling through our spiritual selves may be
limitless, and the powers of our minds be tremendous, in order
to fully experience and learn from our journeys, we must first
acquire the
necessary knowledge and information,
so as we travel through the physical world we have the ability
to see with our minds as well as feel with our bodies. The
physical world has many responsibilities, and sadly
the physical world
also has many dangers. Feeling separated from our physical self
is a nice feeling, but this does not mean that you are
disconnected or excused from the responsibilities of our earth
and from the life that we share with others. Our spaceships may
be grand and magnificent, but we cannot ignore the maintenance
that our spaceships require, or ignore
the maintenance
that our world requires. Enjoy the fight, but don't forget that
there is always a landing.
New Age is said that when humanity lived in an age of
great
technological advancement and
spiritual wisdom, it has entered a period of
spiritual degeneracy, which will be remedied through the establishment of
a coming Age of Aquarius, from which the movement gets its name. There is
also a strong focus on healing, particularly using forms of alternative
medicine, and an emphasis on a "New Age science" which seeks to unite
science and spirituality. It is also a belief in a holistic form of
divinity which imbues all of the universe, including human beings
themselves.
Anthropocentrism is the belief that considers human beings
to be the
most significant entity of the
universe and interprets or regards the world in terms of human values and
experiences.
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown
to us. To live is to be slowly born." (
Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis
Galantière
Who are we? We are
humans, humans with amazing
abilities, still learning and still growing as a species, we
have only just arrived here on this planet so we are just
beginning to realize our potential and still trying to discover
our exact origin.
What are we doing here?
see answer to question one. Where did we
come from? see answer to question one.
Where are we going?
see answer to question one.
Why Do We Exist? -
What We Know
So FarIs our experience of consciousness the result of
Quantum Gravity Effects in our
Microtubule, a theory which has been dubbed
Orchestrated Objective Reduction?
Meditation -
The Human Brain -
Philosophy -
Reality -
Dreams -
Creativity -
Ideas -
Social Awareness -
Morality -
Death -
Religion.
"You know that feeling that you get in that
split second when you realize that you are thinking about
something that you don't want to think about, that's awareness.
Please learn how it works, it's a great tool."
We have too many things that
are based on peoples own personal
perception, why?
Why do people punish other
people just because they have a different awareness then we
have?
Ignorance or just
Egocentrism?
Friendships.
Signals - Are You Receiving This
Maybe our
consciousness is being
transmitted to us from outside our body, and our body
is just the
receiver of the
signal, like how a
radio receives a signal.
No one is inside the
radio, the radio is just a receiver. Maybe
it's
entanglement
or some form of
telepathy.
Or maybe
the cosmic microwave
background radiation
is the signal? Can a signal come from another another
dimension? When we die, do
we lose contact with the
dimension that our physical bodies are in? So how much information did
my soul save from all my experiences on earth? And since I have no
physical body, do I have a new identity now? And could I or would I still
want to be me and retain the person I was? And could I be me in another
body, in another place and in another time? And just "what is me" exactly?
Essence.
Where do
dreams come
from?
People had dreams before
wireless communication existed, but are we being influenced by
wireless communications? If I sleep in a
Faraday Cage, will
my dreams be different because I'm blocking the signals?
Holographic -
Simulation -
Remote Control -
Avatar -
Will Power -
Executive
Functions
Signal
is any
incitement to
action.
Any
nonverbal action or
gesture that encodes a
message.
An
electric quantity like voltage,
current or field strength whose modulation represents
coded information about the
source from which it comes.
Signals.
Sensor is any
device that receives a signal or
a
stimulus and
responds to it in a distinctive manner.
Is it really just me, or is it just a
signal that sometimes has
some
cross talk and
noise?
Consciousness is not
necessarily a product of the
brain, but
the brain does allow consciousness to grow and develop. And consciousness
can only be understood when you acquire enough knowledge and information
that would help you to
realize
the existence of consciousness, and it also helps to have a
healthy brain and body. You could never make a
mechanical computerized machine that could experience human consciousness,
because after you would try to make such a machine, you would eventually
realize that the human brain is the perfect machine, and there is no point
in trying to
reinvent the wheel. So where does consciousness come from?
The brain gives us the ability to
experience consciousness, but
consciousness does not seem to come from the brain itself. So maybe the brain is just a
receiver of consciousness. Like a
radio receives a signal. But that's just
a over simplified explanation. It seems likely that someone built the
human brain in order to experience consciousness in this unique way. I can't
even imagine what consciousness would be like without the human brain,
because it
would definitely not be the same as it is now. But one thing is for
certain, the more knowledge and information you have, the more amazing
consciousness becomes. And if you had no knowledge, information or
language, then consciousness would not exist, or at the least, its
existence would never be realized. So maybe the brain is the incubator for
consciousness. A place where consciousness becomes into being and becomes
a thinking
mind. And maybe
this process happens more than once. Maybe if we live more than one
lifetime, each lifetime consciousness would become more and more defined.
And if that is the case, then we are extremely close to realizing the full
potential of consciousness. But only if we keep learning, and only if we
stop pretending that we know enough. Consciousness can only survive and
thrive if we keep learning and keep advancing and progressing.
People Claiming to have Special Powers - Everyone has Special Powers
Fortune-Telling
is the practice of
predicting information about a person's life.
Profiling -
Ponzi Scam -
Ghosts -
Paranormal
-
Religious Charlatans
-
Blind Followers
Palmistry or
Palm Reading is the practice of fortune-telling through
the study of the palm. Chirology or cheirology practice is found all over
the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice palmistry
are generally called palmists, hand readers, hand analysts, or
chirologists.
Psychic
is a person who claims to use
extrasensory perception to
identify
information hidden from the normal senses.
"The Psychic Fair is
Canceled due to Unforeseen Circumstances."
Oracle
is considered to provide wise and
insightful counsel or prophetic
predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such
it is a form of divination.
Prophet
is an individual who has claimed to have been contacted by the
supernatural or the divine, and to speak for them, serving as an
intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the
supernatural source to other people.
Mythology
refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the
study of such myths. Myths are the stories people tell to explain nature,
history and customs.
Folklore.
Astrologer
is the study of the movements and relative positions of
celestial objects
as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial
events.
Spiritual Guides -
Advisors -
Leadership
Hot Reading is
when the reader
uses information about the person receiving the reading
(for example, from
background research or overhearing a conversation) which the receiver
is not aware that the reader already knows. Hot reading is commonly used
in conjunction with cold reading (where no previously gathered information
is used) and can explain how a psychic reader can get a specific
claimed "hit" of accurate information.
Cold Reading is a
set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums,
illusionists (readers), and
scam artists to imply that the reader knows
much more about the person than the reader actually does. Without prior
knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of
information by analyzing the person's
body language, age, clothing or
fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or
ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc.
Cold readings commonly employ
high-probability guesses, quickly picking up
on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not,
then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on
from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work
because of the Forer effect and due to
confirmation biases within people.
Barnum Effect is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals
give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that
supposedly are tailored specifically to them, that are in fact
vague and
general enough to
apply to a wide range of people.
Profiling.
Mentalism is a
performing
art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to
demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances
may appear to include hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance, divination,
precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, mind control, memory feats,
deduction, and rapid mathematics. Mentalists are sometimes categorized as
psychic entertainers, although that category also contains non-mentalist
performers such as psychic readers and bizzarists.
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Spirituality -
Enlightenment
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Soul -
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Data -
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(hypnagogia) -
Meditation -
Body Smart
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Intelligence -
Spatial Intelligence.