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Posted by: crossbowman 05/06/2008, 15:12:09  (About author)
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What do I mean? Do I mean that I can make the world around me change by methods that violate natural law? No. Unless it is actually a violation of natural law to convince a teen-ager to do the dishes (as some teenagers might argue), then no, I don't mean that. What I mean is that I can make you THINK that I have violated natural law - often even if you know the trick. I can take advantage of the structure of your brain, the way it processes information, to create an illusion that will seem as real to you as your keyboard, even as your cognitive mind declares that it could not possibly be real. http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/061120_magic_brain.html The lesson here is simple. What you see, hear, feel, taste, touch is generally a reliable report on what's going on in the world outside you - BUT NOT ALWAYS. You can be fooled because all of that information has to be processed by your brain before it makes sense to you. Certain combinations of sensory inputs will trick certain cells in your brain into telling you something that just isn't so. http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/illusion.html Now, plain and simple, it is easiest to trick the mind when someone is intentionally setting about to do just that. However, the fact that it is possible also means that it can happen by random chance - that, for example, the object in the sky might not be as far away nor as large as your mind first tells you it is. So, in short, be wary: seeing is not always believing. "Robbins’s claim fails because the Hobbs Act does not apply when the National Government is the intended beneficiary of the allegedly extortionate acts." WILKIE ET AL. v. ROBBINS. David H. Souter, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
with John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,
Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito concurring. |
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