Brain and Mind. How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time - Issue 9: Time. One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming. It was a life-changing moment, or, as it felt at the time, a life-changing eon. It has been my goal ever since to compose music that usurps the perceived flow of time and commandeers the sense of how time passes. Although I’ve learned to manipulate subjective time, I still stand in awe of Schubert’s unparalleled power. Nearly two centuries ago, the composer anticipated the neurological underpinnings of time perception that science has underscored in the past few decades. The human brain, we have learned, adjusts and recalibrates temporal perception.
We conceive of time as a continuum, but we perceive it in discretized units—or, rather, as discretized units. Also in Music The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations Footnotes 1. 2. PopularResistance.Org. How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future | Science. The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay. The second, third, and fourth things to hit him were locusts. The insects frequently escaped their cages and careened into the faces of scientists and lab techs. The room was hot and humid, and the constant commotion of 20,000 bugs produced a miasma of aerosolized insect exoskeleton. Many of the staff had to wear respirators to avoid developing severe allergies. “It wasn’t the easiest place to do science,” Couzin says. In the mid-2000s that lab was, however, one of the only places on earth to do the kind of science Couzin wanted.
He didn’t care about locusts, per se—Couzin studies collective behavior. That’s what happens in nature, but no one had ever induced these shifts in the lab—at least not in animals. Couzin wanted to know what if-then rules produced similar behaviors in living things. The answer turned out to be quite grisly. You May Have Been Born to Flock | Science. More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through the city’s French Quarter. From a certain perspective, might those Super Bowl fans resemble, say, a herd of wildebeest or school of fish? Or maybe a murmuration of starlings? After all, collective behaviors are found across the animal kingdom — and regardless of our penchant for Shakespeare and beer helmets, humans are animals, too.
Some scientists think the essential components of flocking behavior, an instinctive tendency to join with others and follow their lead, remain alive inside us. “Where does this pull come from?” Said psychologist Margarete Boos of Germany’s University of Goettingen. “This must be a very basic way of perceiving other people’s behavior.” Her team designed an experiment in which test subjects were allowed to move within a virtual space, but with the identities of other people completely hidden. 'Maybe we could trace our flocking back to fish. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion @ TEDxWhitechapel. Waking Times - Entering a Time of Natural Health, Elevated Consciousness, Sustainable Living and Total Freedom. 300+ Mind Expanding Documentaries. I watch a lot of documentaries.
I think they are incredible tools for learning and increasing our awareness of important issues. The power of an interesting documentary is that it can open our minds to new possibilities and deepen our understanding of the world. On this list of mind expanding documentaries you will find different viewpoints, controversial opinions and even contradictory ideas. Critical thinking is recommended. Watching documentaries is one of my favorite methods of self-education. . [1] Life In The Biosphere Explore the wonder and interconnectedness of the biosphere through the magic of technology. [2] Creativity and Design: Learn about all the amazing things that people create with their imaginations. [3] The Education Industrial Complex: The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state. [4] The Digital Revolution: The Internet is now the driving force behind change and innovation in the world. [5] A New Civilization: [6] Politics: [8] War: