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#perception

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mjt

“When the participants knew which soda they were drinking, brain scans showed that they liked Coke better. But when they didn’t know, they consistently preferred Pepsi. Dr. Montague’s interpretation, published in the journal Neuron in 2024, posited that the Coke brand is so powerful that its positive associations creep into our unconscious minds, causing us to prefer something even though it does not taste as good.“

#USpol #Perception
nytimes.com/2025/08/01/dining/

In the race to become the top cola, the finish line keeps moving.
The New York Times · Is Cola With Cane Sugar Actually Better? We Did a Taste Test.By Julia Moskin
Florin

“Perception, like clouds, is shaped more by the observer than the object. One person sees a horse galloping through the sky; another sees a face, a dragon, or nothing at all. The sky doesn’t change—the viewer does. And so it is with images. We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we have learned to see it. […]
Our visual understanding of the world is constructed, shaped by repetition, exposure, emotion, and education.”

more: kaptur.co/we-see-what-we-have-
#neuroscience #perception #photography

Kaptur · We See What We Have Learned to See - KapturSee, the danger is not that AI images will fool us. The danger is that we will stop caring whether anything happened at all.
Maria Truth

"Humans are not perfect creatures and tend to distort the facts either intentionally or unintentionally. There are always the brightest minds who offer justice, but they are exception. So always be reserved of what others tell. It might be more fiction than fiction."

☆ Maria Karvouni Truth
The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

#deception#deceit#bullying
salix sericea (@Ripple13216)

No Eurovision for us today. We haz limits.

But how about another TV themed thread.

"He is not like on TV."

A vacuous phrase generally used to exculpate pure evil, like Rapey Dude One, or a warning of some darkness.

But seriously, who would you really want to be like they are on TV? Off the top of my head maybe Tom Hanks or Mr. Rogers.

The actor typecast as a serial killer for their whole career?

A football player? His cleats would ruin the expensive

...🧵

#TV#language#perception
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Babu Menos 🎵 #NoAI

I rediscovered something I wrote in my blog about 1½ years ago. It’s something that doesn’t get old and needs constant reminding.

— How Come We Always Assume the Worst in Others? —

Most people are pretty decent, says Dutch historian Rutger Bregman¹, author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2017) and ‘Humankind’ (2020).

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In an eight-minute video² he explains quite plausbily how doomscrolling, using social media, watching and reading the news changes our perception of humankind. We only see all the bad things happening, which makes us quite susceptible to being persuaded of human vileness. On the other hand, if you believe in the goodness of humanity, so often you are dismissed as this naïve person who doesn’t have a realistic view of the world.

But Bregman, after researching the matter, comes to the conclusion that humans are not as evil and raw as they are made out to be. An example: One of the astonishing discoveries from the second World War is that only 15 to 25 per cent of the American soldiers actually fired their guns. They had to be trained and brainwashed to be able to be more ‘effective’ during the Vietnam War.

Another valid point he’s making is that science is the only self-correcting system that we have that sort of criticises itself and then develops and becomes better […] ⬇️

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_B
² inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TXN7QGG

#Sociology#Psychology#Perception
Stan Carey

"As biological entities we sail on a tiny raft of timescales between the atomic and the cosmic; we know that in a tenth of a second a world of things happen, and in the century virtually nothing."

—Tim Robinson, Connemara: Listening to the Wind (2006)

#books#TimRobinson#time
Frankie ✅

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer

It is impossible for us to know exactly how another person's experience of the world compares to our own, but a new experiment is helping to reveal that colour is indeed a shared phenomenon

newscientist.com/article/24707

New Scientist · Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answerBy Sophie Berdugo
#news#science#perception
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