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See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones.
love all-ways,
mem
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones.
love all-ways,
mem
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 8:28 PMVery cool post! Thanks for sharing
The idea of the belt is completely something my girlfriend and I had talked about after reading On Intelligence! Except we were trying to figure out a way for a watch to buzz magnetic north somehow...
either way, the idea of creating new senses is fascinating and probably something that will happen a lot more in the future.
Consciousness Explained spoke also of a pad worn on the stomach attached to a camera that would give blind people sight...the tongue idea is really cool. -
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Thu, April 12, 2007 - 10:35 AMAny one ever read "Ghost in the Shell" Series books?
In it they really go far out with multi-person "ghost" is uploaded into body shells....
And it made me realize, in the future near, we will be channels, not people as much.
Let's check in and see what Shadoan is up to... watch through his eyes, feel through his skin..
Speaking of Vonnegut, and "The future is now" I just read...
And being John Malkevich...
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Thu, April 12, 2007 - 11:49 AMI already AM a channeler & I think my newly uncovered talent/skill (of course it was there all the time I was just *ignoring* it) makes me a deeper, more interesting, richer person. I was more "shell like" when I was wasting my time & energy attempting to deny/ignore it.
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Thu, April 12, 2007 - 11:54 AMps ~ Being John Malcovich.... old news!
Just like this classic song
The Cure ~ Why Can't I Be You?
www.youtube.com/watch
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Sun, April 15, 2007 - 7:15 AMIn Herman Hess's "Sidhartha" he explores being an eagle, being a rock, being a carcass....
(I know, I need spelling lessons....)
So, any advice on channeling? I think I have this in me, I think all people and animals must have it. -
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Sun, April 15, 2007 - 11:03 AMnot really any advice ~ it's "simpler" than you may think ~ it's kinda like surfing the web, or channel surfing on TV ~ different things come through at different times & you just gotta catch the wave.....
love all-ways,
mem
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Fri, April 20, 2007 - 9:23 AMinteresting....i had a teacher once who said something to the effect that most of us use our senses in a "grasping" kind of way.....creating a *relationship* to objects seen, heard, felt, etc, rather than experiencing the pool of synergy, or, put another way, existence as a living, indivisible dynamic.
so, for example, he used to talk about listening with the whole body (as opposed to hearing, with its passive, uninvolved connotation) which includes all kinds of sensitivities we don't have names for.
great article, mem, thanks.
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Sat, April 21, 2007 - 3:16 AMmy *pleasure* :)
love all-ways,
mem
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Mon, April 23, 2007 - 8:08 PMThis reminds me of the study where certain cultures listen to sounds differently than others...lemme see if i can find an article.
www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~nippon/...240e.html
Not the one I was thinking of, but same idea.
"But Prof. Tsunoda found a difference in the location where the sound of insects is processed. His experiments revealed that while Westerners process insect sounds together with machinery and noise sounds in the music sphere, Japanese capture insect sounds in their language sphere, meaning that Japanese hear insect sounds as 'insect voices.' "
The article I had read said more about how the japanese culture describes the crickets as "speaking" and such.
I've played with deliberately trying to listen to crickets as a language - trying to make out words in the noise, it "feels" differently than passive listening.
I like the idea of "grasping" with our senses, sulevay -
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Mon, April 30, 2007 - 5:23 PMWhat a great article. I always wondered why Japanese say Dog's say Wan Wan. It makes one realize that if they can soften their cortexes back up, in a way that mimics the flexibility of a child's mind, they can completely regenderate their sensitivity to many many things they never even suspected were around.
Could a human listen to ultrasound? Can one hear light? Can one feel electricity in water with their hair? -
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Tue, May 1, 2007 - 3:39 AMsome people can see/feel auras/chakras/meridians
love all-ways,
mem
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Thu, May 10, 2007 - 10:27 AMWeird. Sometimes it disturbs me how much we try and "gadgetize" our bodies.
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Sun, August 3, 2008 - 7:19 AMBodies? LIke physical, astral, mental? -
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Sun, August 3, 2008 - 3:40 PMthis thread is a year and 4 months old. impressive, MEM! -
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Sun, August 3, 2008 - 4:23 PMthanx
& the original link even still works :)
love all-ways,
mem
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 1:02 AMThe tongue is not yours and neither the psyche. It is of the devil and to devil and ash returns. I thought it was elementary. -
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Sun, August 31, 2008 - 8:54 AMHacking the senses has been divine ambition of Arjuna. Krishna nevertheless explains that ione is not the body. In most magick systems one has to acquire total control of the three worlds and five senses. Tedious work, niot at all very fanciful but necessary, hard work. -
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Sun, August 31, 2008 - 4:41 PMthe environment we are put in can evolve around us, as well as revolve around us.
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Sun, August 31, 2008 - 8:57 AMMary, you have a peculiar way to move about and hack the matrix, you do not posess a linear mind at all as your intelligence is to say the least out of ordinary! Among your good traits... -
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Sun, August 31, 2008 - 9:00 AMthanx ~ I took both the red & blue pills
love all-ways,
mem
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Unsu...
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Sun, August 31, 2008 - 9:40 AMOnce we uncork the subconscious via whatever hypnotic method (religion, meditation, affirmations or plain old hypnosis), synesthesia is the next natural evolutionary step. Exploring the VAKOG to it's factorial nth is why we're all here in the first place.
Mike