Survive 2012: Ancient Mayan Doomsday, Pole Shifts and Evolution Nag on the Lake: NYMZA Aeros – The Airships of the 1850’s "Aeros' were aircraft that were designed, built and flown by members of the Sonora Aero Club in California during the years 1850 to 1858. These aircraft were navigable airships, built at a time when the only means of flight was the aerial balloon, which lacked maneuverability and was subject to the whims of the wind. A member of the club, Prussian born American artist C.A.A. It all sounds rather fantastical and perhaps it is. Read entire article here Via Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog « The outlandish, the anomalous and the curious from the last five thousand years Paranormal News -- Your Source for UFO and Paranormal Related Information EsoterX | If Monsters Don't Exist, Why Are They Out To Get Me?
Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History Paranormal News -- Your Source for UFO and Paranormal Related Information Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are? One of the deepest problems in epistemology is how we know the nature of reality. Over the millennia philosophers have offered many theories, from solipsism (only one's mind is known to exist) to the theory that natural selection shaped our senses to give us an accurate, or verdical, model of the world. Now a new theory by University of California, Irvine, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is garnering attention. (Google his scholarly papers and TED talk with more than 1.4 million views.) Grounded in evolutionary psychology, it is called the interface theory of perception (ITP) and argues that percepts act as a species-specific user interface that directs behavior toward survival and reproduction, not truth. Hoffman's computer analogy is that physical space is like the desktop and that objects in it are like desktop icons, which are produced by the graphical user interface (GUI). Hoffman's holotype is the Australian jewel beetle Julodimorpha bakewelli.
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