Post by Danielle Sawyer on Nov 11, 2015 3:37:14 GMT
Week 7
The virtual simulation theory of consciousness is when our brain believes what we see with our eyes to be real but the object or image is fake. You can experience the virtual simulation theory of consciousness at Disneyland and in the video “The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image,” they show multiple examples of it in their rides with their animatronics. But like the video said “you don’t have to go to Disneyland to experience it, it happens in our dreams as well.” Our minds play out multiple situations at a time and decide on the right possible outcome based off the situation around us. The video “A Glorious Piece of Meat,” explains that the eye entrusts everything it sees. It’s like we were told to imagine the perfect meal. You start envisioning what to make. Ours brains are visualizing this whole meal. Not everyone knows what you’re cooking but our brains allow us to use our imagination on how amazing it’s going to taste. Your mouth is watering just thinking about it. When you imagine yourself eating this perfect meal you can now decide to act upon cooking it because you used the visualization exercise to choose what you want to make.
Week 8
The brain tricks us by making the conclusion that events happen here and now but they either take place at a different time. In the book “Is the Universe an App?” it has a quote that says “nothing arrives on time; rather everything arrives in time.” It’s like as the book says watching our favorite sunset. We can see it the beautiful sun setting right before our eyes but it actually takes eight minutes for that light to touch earth and that sunset to actually be seen by us. The reason for this is Maya and in this means “that which betrays it real origin and thus tricks us at each and apparently every turn into believing something about an event’s causation.” The way the brain tricks us is our benefit. It is for our genetic survival that our brain trick us. The way our brain functions through deception is a “necessary feature of human existence.” “Without it we wouldn’t be able to survive.” We need the instincts that deception cause in order for the functions in our brain to perform flight or fight.
The virtual simulation theory of consciousness is when our brain believes what we see with our eyes to be real but the object or image is fake. You can experience the virtual simulation theory of consciousness at Disneyland and in the video “The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image,” they show multiple examples of it in their rides with their animatronics. But like the video said “you don’t have to go to Disneyland to experience it, it happens in our dreams as well.” Our minds play out multiple situations at a time and decide on the right possible outcome based off the situation around us. The video “A Glorious Piece of Meat,” explains that the eye entrusts everything it sees. It’s like we were told to imagine the perfect meal. You start envisioning what to make. Ours brains are visualizing this whole meal. Not everyone knows what you’re cooking but our brains allow us to use our imagination on how amazing it’s going to taste. Your mouth is watering just thinking about it. When you imagine yourself eating this perfect meal you can now decide to act upon cooking it because you used the visualization exercise to choose what you want to make.
Week 8
The brain tricks us by making the conclusion that events happen here and now but they either take place at a different time. In the book “Is the Universe an App?” it has a quote that says “nothing arrives on time; rather everything arrives in time.” It’s like as the book says watching our favorite sunset. We can see it the beautiful sun setting right before our eyes but it actually takes eight minutes for that light to touch earth and that sunset to actually be seen by us. The reason for this is Maya and in this means “that which betrays it real origin and thus tricks us at each and apparently every turn into believing something about an event’s causation.” The way the brain tricks us is our benefit. It is for our genetic survival that our brain trick us. The way our brain functions through deception is a “necessary feature of human existence.” “Without it we wouldn’t be able to survive.” We need the instincts that deception cause in order for the functions in our brain to perform flight or fight.