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1/🧵 Do you what I see? Today we launch #ThePerceptionCensus, part of @Drea_m_achine, and one of the largest citizen science studies on human perception ever undertaken. Check out this video, and discover more (and sign up) here: perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world Image
2/ It may seem to us that we experience the world ‘as it is’, but in fact we each inhabit a unique, personalised ‘inner universe’. Just as we all differ on the outside, we all differ on the inside too. Image
3/ Sometimes, these differences are very clear. Remember #TheDress? Half the world saw it as blue-and-black, while the other half saw it as white-and-gold. (It really was blue-and-black, honest). Image
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HOW EVIL MARKETING GENIUSES HACK DECISION-MAKING
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Everyone remembers #thedress, right? It ripped the world apart when it began to appear on social feeds in February 2015.
People who saw it as white-and-gold couldn’t see it as blue-and-black (and vice versa). And they couldn’t understand how others couldn’t see what THEY saw.

This is definitive proof we’re living in a simulated universe.
The world we see around us is a simulation created in our brain, an electrochemical machine squatting in the darkroom of our skulls.

What looks and feels most real to us, most 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 (“I saw it with my own eyes”) is as ‘simulated’ as any computer game.
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Wie die Psychologin @drjuliashaw ihre Probanden dazu bringt, Verbrechen zu gestehen, die sie nie begangen haben, ist sack spannend. Eine Anleitung aus meinem neuen Artikel @krautreporter. krautreporter.de/3117-warum-men…
Eins vorweg: Dass unsere Erinnerungen so fehleranfällig sind, liegt auch daran, dass schon bei unserer Wahrnehmung einiges schiefläuft. Vergleicht mal die Felder A und B. A ist dunkler als B – oder?? Image
Wenn man die Felder aus ihrem Kontext reißt, sieht man: Beide Felder haben die gleiche Farbe. Wie wir die Außenwelt wahrnehmen, hat weniger mit unserer Außenwelt zu tun als damit, was in unserem Gehirn passiert. Ein Beispiel hab ich noch ... Image
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