SETI Talks: Donald A. Glaser - Brain Function Noise

For anybody who misses the staid but sometimes surprising environment of the college classroom, you might enjoy this. The talk centers around "brain noise" but it wanders off into many different directions, especially how our eyes are trained to see things in such a way that...sometimes...we don't see what is really there. He also touches on how marijuana and alcohol inebriation sometimes short-circuit the illusions that our brain was hard-wired to perceive, in particular cannabis seems to inhibit communication between the brain's two hemispheres. 25 minutes of lecture and about 10 minutes of Q&A.
rougysays...

One of the findings from this study was that a certain amount of intoxication prohibited people from seeing the illusion, which would imply that they see the truth.

He jokes about it, referring to a colleague who was tipsy, but later he notes a study that suggested that cannabis use prohibits the left and right hemispheres of the brain from communicating--not unlike the way that people prone to grand mal seizures are cured, by cutting the membrane between the two. (corpus collosum?)

What I suggest...and clearly there is ample argument against this...what I suggest is that marijuana users are less susceptible to illusion than are non-marijuana users.

And in keeping with that thought, that is why it is so dangerous to the status quo.

*promote

berticussays...

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>> ^rougy:

One of the findings from this study was that a certain amount of intoxication prohibited people from seeing the illusion, which would imply that they see the truth.
He jokes about it, referring to a colleague who was tipsy, but later he notes a study that suggested that cannabis use prohibits the left and right hemispheres of the brain from communicating--not unlike the way that people prone to grand mal seizures are cured, by cutting the membrane between the two. (corpus collosum?)
What I suggest...and clearly there is ample argument against this...what I suggest is that marijuana users are less susceptible to illusion than are non-marijuana users.
And in keeping with that thought, that is why it is so dangerous to the status quo.
promote

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