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#perception

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Radical Anthropology

Our colleague Cedric Boeckx picked up this piece by Sam Mehr 'on the special(ized) character of human auditory perception underlying musicality; contains very good points re: cross-species (dis)analogies (e.g. why bird ‘song’ may be a misnomer)'

As Mehr puts it: fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm
or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music'

#musicality #evolution #perception #anthropology #cognition

cell.com/trends/cognitive-scie

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Florin

“Perception, like clouds, is shaped more by the observer than the object. One person sees a horse galloping through the sky; another sees a face, a dragon, or nothing at all. The sky doesn’t change—the viewer does. And so it is with images. We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we have learned to see it. […]
Our visual understanding of the world is constructed, shaped by repetition, exposure, emotion, and education.”

more: kaptur.co/we-see-what-we-have-
#neuroscience #perception #photography

Kaptur · We See What We Have Learned to See - KapturSee, the danger is not that AI images will fool us. The danger is that we will stop caring whether anything happened at all.
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David Wakeham (dwtutoring)

Some books you read. Others read you back. 📖✨

Returning to Atwood's Cat's Eye (again).

Every re-read reveals new layers about how institutions fail us, how #trauma shapes #perception, and how #art becomes #survival.

As someone who's lived through foster care, medical gaslighting, and academic #ableism, Elaine's sharp observations of power and complicity hit differently each time.

Literature as a mirror and a map.

Alt-text: Paperback copy of Margaret Atwood's "Cat's Eye" resting on layered vintage lace and patterned fabrics. The yellow book cover features two girls in summer dresses sitting close together, with "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize" noted below the title. Secondary Description: Like an archaeological discovery, Atwood's Cat's Eye emerges from layers of intricate lace—delicate paisley spirals and floral motifs creating a textile palimpsest beneath the book's weathered spine. The cover's two girls, frozen in their childhood intimacy, seem to whisper secrets across the ornate fabrics that cradle them. One blonde, one brunette, they sit in eternal summer yellow, their small bodies pressed together in that particular closeness that precedes betrayal or transcendence. The decorative patterns beneath—swirling paisleys like fossilised tears, geometric flowers blooming in black and white—create a mandala of memory, each thread a story within the story. The book rests here not merely as an object but as a portal; its Man Booker Prize notation is a quiet testament to the power of bearing witness. In this tableau, domestic beauty and literary weight converge, the delicate lacework beneath echoing the novel's intricate exploration of girlhood's sharp-edged beauty—all surfaces and hidden depths, patterns that conceal and reveal the truths we carry.
#DisabilityLit#Atwood#TraumaInformed
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Maria Karvouni Truth

"Humans are not perfect creatures and tend to distort the facts either intentionally or unintentionally. There are always the brightest minds who offer justice, but they are exception. So always be reserved of what others tell. It might be more fiction than fiction."

☆ Maria Karvouni Truth
The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

#deception#deceit#bullying
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Sasu

"Meditating your way through the ups and downs of daily life is the whole point of vipassana. This kind of practice is extremely rigorous and demanding, but it engenders a state of mental flexibility that is beyond comparison. A meditator keeps his mind open every second. He is constantly investigating life, inspecting his own experience, viewing existence in a detached and inquisitive way. Thus, he is constantly open to truth in any form, from any source, and at any time. This is the state of mind you need for liberation.

It is said that one may attain enlightenment at any moment if the mind is kept in a state of meditative readiness. The tiniest, most ordinary perception can be the stimulus: a view of the moon, the cry of a bird, the sound of the wind in the trees. It’s not so important what is perceived as the way in which you attend to that perception. That state of open readiness is essential. It could happen to you right now if you are ready. The tactile sensation of this book in your fingers could be the cue. The sound of these words in your head might be enough. You could attain enlightenment right now, if you are ready."

— Henepola Gunaratana: Mindfulness in Plain English

What a wake-up call!

Henepola Gunaratana: Mindfulness in Plain English (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Audible Studios)
#mindfulness#enlightenment#awakening
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Babu Menos 🎵 #NoAI

I rediscovered something I wrote in my blog about 1½ years ago. It’s something that doesn’t get old and needs constant reminding.

— How Come We Always Assume the Worst in Others? —

Most people are pretty decent, says Dutch historian Rutger Bregman¹, author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2017) and ‘Humankind’ (2020).

🧵 1/2

In an eight-minute video² he explains quite plausbily how doomscrolling, using social media, watching and reading the news changes our perception of humankind. We only see all the bad things happening, which makes us quite susceptible to being persuaded of human vileness. On the other hand, if you believe in the goodness of humanity, so often you are dismissed as this naïve person who doesn’t have a realistic view of the world.

But Bregman, after researching the matter, comes to the conclusion that humans are not as evil and raw as they are made out to be. An example: One of the astonishing discoveries from the second World War is that only 15 to 25 per cent of the American soldiers actually fired their guns. They had to be trained and brainwashed to be able to be more ‘effective’ during the Vietnam War.

Another valid point he’s making is that science is the only self-correcting system that we have that sort of criticises itself and then develops and becomes better […] ⬇️

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_B
² inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TXN7QGG

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#Sociology#Psychology#Perception
Continued thread
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jan
”Prehension unifies causality, perception, and memory into a single notion of “feeling.” …our bodies feel causal efficacy directly. When you flick a light switch and your pupils contract, that is causality-in-experience. …feeling, aim, and purpose arise within nature, not by external imposition.”
—Matthew Segall, Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons
#whitehead #prehension #causality #perception #memory
#memory
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John Burns

The one take-a-way from Musk Doggie trying to destroy Federal government is... that there really was/is not a lot of waste.

Prior to this - most people thought "the $ value" would be way higher.

But it really is only harming the essential services and blowing up the economy.

One person's waste is another person's essential service.

Of course the boot licker media latch on to the one or two things that are pennies, compared to all of the valuable efforts.

#Perception

Decades to Repair!

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michael

16-Apr-2025
Your cells can hear
Uncovering the relationship between life and #sound

There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also.

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #perception #hearing #vibration #sensory

EurekAlert!Your cells can hearKyoto, Japan -- There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also. Technically speaking, sound is a simple phenomenon, consisting of compressional mechanical waves transmitted through substances, which exists universally in the non-equilibrated material world. Sound is also a vital source of environmental information for living beings, while its capacity to induce physiological responses at the cell level is only just beginning to be understood. Following on previous work from 2018, a team of researchers at Kyoto University have been inspired by research in mechanobiology and body-conducted sound -- the sound environment in body tissues -- indicating that acoustic pressure transmitted by sound may be sufficient to induce cellular responses.
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