Tagged with perception

We live in a state of manufactured normalcy. There are mechanisms that prevent us from realizing that the future is actually happening as we speak. To really understand how the world is evolving, we need to break through this manufactured field. Unfortunately, that leads to a kind of existential nausea. (more)

Materialism is the doctrine that only matter is real. Hence minds are in brains, and mental activity is nothing but brain activity. This assumption conflicts with our own experience. When we look at a blackbird, we see a blackbird; we do not experience complex electrical changes in our brains. But most of us accept the mind-within-the-brain theory. (more)

I spent increasing amounts of time just gazing into the clear marble, fascinated with the way it contained a distorted image of my entire bedroom and everything in it. So deeply, in fact, did I enter this distorted but complete inner world that I forgot myself. (more)

The disease-based understanding of autism may miss key facets of the autistic experience that could be used for diagnosis, intervention and socialization. First-person accounts of autism should be weighted heavily against clinical observation. I am using these as the primary source for my artwork. (more)

With any physical process, there is a time form that is independent of the space form.  But to what extent does it correspond to our concepts of form?  A simple linear duration, a movement from A to B, is only one way that form exists in time.  As with forms in space, time forms are distributed in nature according to ratios.  (more)

Human consciousness has changed throughout our long history. Our selves change, our structures of perception, our personalities, our relationships, all uproot and become undone. As goes our structure of consciousness, so goes the world. (more)

The evolution of consciousness isn't something that "happens to us," or at least it needn't be. Simply becoming aware of the creative power of our own minds can achieve remarkable results. -- an interview with the author of A Secret History of Consciousness. (more)