Monday, October 19, 2015

Chapter 3 and 4 notes



Our minds control motion and senses that can be manipulated into thinking something that is not true, but it feels true. These are called phantom pains.  Our brains are just not wired the way technology is. Humans can not do the regular things that computers do like remember a long list of instructions or sequences.
There is a feeling of being in another place and not the place you are really in. For example, when you are in a car chatting away on the on the phone. You are physically in the car, but your mind is elsewhere, you disassociate with your physical form in the favor of your mental one! The idea of telepresence has the same notion. It uses technology to control something in another place. 
Phantom Pains are a pain in the butt, huh? Feeling something and KNOWING that your body is missing that limb, but your brain is like 'nah man, your arm itches...scratch it.''
Neural Opportunism: Data processing bandwidth 
Our perception is limited! 
Meta knowledge: Rapid decision making
Baseline knowledge: stable source of information
change blindness: pretty much not remembering what you just saw
Fovea
Intentional blindness: failing to notice something that's in front of you when you're distracted by something else.

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