Perception, Culture, and the Brain

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click here for
"Reality
Is A Mass Hallucination"
by
Howard
Bloom
from the German publication Telepolis.

Here's
the trickster that
simultaneously guides and hoodwinks us.
Tour
the brain courtesy of Digital Anatomist Project, University of Washington.

Watch your brain create false realities
courtesy of Java Applet magician
Mark Newbold
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Counter-Rotating
Spirals Illusion
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Animated
Necker Cube
Now watch your neurons turn mere lines into the illusion
of 3-D with the
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Stereoscopic Animated
Hypercube
The lines below are black and white,
but the trickster brain inserts colors that aren't there
color
illusion courtesy of John Krantz
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the Nervous System"
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Dr. Eric Chudler is thorough, fascinating, clear, and, yes, even humorous!
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for more on how the brain creates illusions of reality
see
Global
Brain
The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang
to the 21st Century
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Global Brain click here
