My goals for the rest of the year are to make my new blog interesting and every thing I'm honoring for with it (to be explained on the blog in a later post)
To have our board game complete by the end of February and to set up a full plan for our social skill infiltration.
Sorry this one last thing is for class
Monday, January 7, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Good Bye
After listening to my teachers discuss our blogs and projects today I think I want to change my topic to perception and just perception. I, in case you haven't noticed, am kinda stuck in just doing shallow research which is not what want. I hope this works one works out well!!
My new blog is a-inkperception.blogspot.com
check it out and please take the poll
My new blog is a-inkperception.blogspot.com
check it out and please take the poll
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Interesting Experiment
In the book they talked about an experiment that I thought was really interesting. They asked people to pick who they would vote for for President just by looking at their picture. They found that most people who were democrats picked the democratic person and the people who were republican pick the republican candidate with out knowing anything about either candidate. Your subconscious minds job is to leap to conclutions and use all of the information you've ever gathered and the opinions your conscious mind creates tell you which choice is better. When asked why they chose this candidate over the other they couldn't say why, most said it was just a "feeling." This is the exact jod of our subconscious mind.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Now The Hidden Brain is leading into some of the other topics it will discuss and there are some points he makes that are exactly what I'm interested in.
Points like " You know the answer, but you don't know how you know the answer," and " . . . It was clear his words upset you, but were you really aware of what was going on in your brain as you lost your temper? . . . but if you didn't conciously decide to get angry, where did the anger come from?" Vedantam also states that we make many conscious decisions every da,y like picking job applicants based on qualifications. He then proves that even these carfully thought out decisions are flawed. This is shown by many experiments run on overweight job applicants. It was proven that anyone who was over weight had a much slimmer chance of getting the job, even if they had the exact same qualifications. Not only that, but also if a healthy-weighted individual was sitting next to an overweight person before the interview they were less likely to be choosen. The hundreds of people they asked to be the interviewers did not consciously decide that the applicant was less qualified because they were in the proximity of an overweight person; their mind simply, because of it's surroundings and all of the things it has been fed and held onto, subconsciously leaped to conclutions, which is it's job.
Points like " You know the answer, but you don't know how you know the answer," and " . . . It was clear his words upset you, but were you really aware of what was going on in your brain as you lost your temper? . . . but if you didn't conciously decide to get angry, where did the anger come from?" Vedantam also states that we make many conscious decisions every da,y like picking job applicants based on qualifications. He then proves that even these carfully thought out decisions are flawed. This is shown by many experiments run on overweight job applicants. It was proven that anyone who was over weight had a much slimmer chance of getting the job, even if they had the exact same qualifications. Not only that, but also if a healthy-weighted individual was sitting next to an overweight person before the interview they were less likely to be choosen. The hundreds of people they asked to be the interviewers did not consciously decide that the applicant was less qualified because they were in the proximity of an overweight person; their mind simply, because of it's surroundings and all of the things it has been fed and held onto, subconsciously leaped to conclutions, which is it's job.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Ch. 1 The Hidden Brain
The Myth of Intention
In this chapter Vedantam sppeaks about a women who was raped and was certain, 100 % sure, that this man that they brought in was her assulter. After the man spent 14 years in prison, 14 years of her being positive that he was guilty, they found DNA evidence that he was not her rapist. When the event occured she had memorized every detail of the mans face but in the midst of the trail she had gotten caught up and missed that this man had crooked teeth and the other had not. He then explains all of the factors that explained why she was sur esh ewas right.
1. All of the pictures of men she went through weakend her memorry of the real rapist
2. Your emotions effect you rmemory and judgement
3. To keep herself from further distress the victim enabled a defensive mechanism that kept her from feeling her doughts
4. She left out the teeth in her innicial description because her mind told her it was too ordinary and unimportant
All of these things were not the victims fault, they were natural instincts. This reminds me of a ted video I saw called "Why Eyewitnesses Get it Wrong" in it Scott Fraser explainted how our minds fill in the gaps in our memory with out our control. So we may believe that something is 100% true it could not be. Kind of a scary concept that we cant even trust ourselves, but it is true.
In this chapter Vedantam sppeaks about a women who was raped and was certain, 100 % sure, that this man that they brought in was her assulter. After the man spent 14 years in prison, 14 years of her being positive that he was guilty, they found DNA evidence that he was not her rapist. When the event occured she had memorized every detail of the mans face but in the midst of the trail she had gotten caught up and missed that this man had crooked teeth and the other had not. He then explains all of the factors that explained why she was sur esh ewas right.
1. All of the pictures of men she went through weakend her memorry of the real rapist
2. Your emotions effect you rmemory and judgement
3. To keep herself from further distress the victim enabled a defensive mechanism that kept her from feeling her doughts
4. She left out the teeth in her innicial description because her mind told her it was too ordinary and unimportant
All of these things were not the victims fault, they were natural instincts. This reminds me of a ted video I saw called "Why Eyewitnesses Get it Wrong" in it Scott Fraser explainted how our minds fill in the gaps in our memory with out our control. So we may believe that something is 100% true it could not be. Kind of a scary concept that we cant even trust ourselves, but it is true.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
I started another book...
So I was getting really bored with the other book, which happens a lot. Ill probably come back to it later. Anyway, the book is The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam and seems really interesting. Its about how we behave due to our subconscious minds and how things affect it. Ill get back to you about the first chapter soon.
Friday, November 30, 2012
sleep deprived
So sorry everybody, the tell-yourself-to-wake-up-at-six-and-you-will thing didn't work. I really wanted it to. I have trouble waking up in the morning so if this worked I was going to be super exited, and maybe even start to believe this guy. Now I have very little faith, but ill keep on reading and see if I can find some more solid facts in it.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Ch 1 continued
Outstanding Differences and Modes of Operation
Here Murphy uses a captain and crew analogy where the captain is the eyes and the crew simply follows his exact instructions. He says your subconscious is the crew and just takes orders from your conscious. So be positive, then your feeding your self good outcomes. I think this is true I feel that bring positive really reflects well on your life but then he loses me with this story.
"Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student look at an attractive and rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. She was going home to Buffalo, New York for the holidays. She was about to say I can't afford that bag when she recalled something that she heard of one of my lectures which was "never finish negative statement reverse it immediately. And wonderful things will happen in your life"
She said, "that bag is mine, it is for sale and I accept it mentally, my subconscious sees it that I received it."
At eight o'clock that evening her fiancé gave her the exact bag."
He then proceeds to explain that this was because of her telling her subconscious that this bag was hers. Now I highly doubt that is true I mean it sounds pretty far fetched. I'm not saying that if you shouldn't follow his little never be negative rule I think it's a great idea. However don't expect a Porsche to show in your drive way tomorrow morning because you told yourself it would.
Next he tells a few more stories like this one and summarizes the whole chapter. In this summary Murphy specifically days that if you tell your subconscious mind right before bed to wake you up at six o'clock it will. I am going to put this to the test tonight and let you know if it worked. See you tomorrow morning.
Here Murphy uses a captain and crew analogy where the captain is the eyes and the crew simply follows his exact instructions. He says your subconscious is the crew and just takes orders from your conscious. So be positive, then your feeding your self good outcomes. I think this is true I feel that bring positive really reflects well on your life but then he loses me with this story.
"Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student look at an attractive and rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. She was going home to Buffalo, New York for the holidays. She was about to say I can't afford that bag when she recalled something that she heard of one of my lectures which was "never finish negative statement reverse it immediately. And wonderful things will happen in your life"
She said, "that bag is mine, it is for sale and I accept it mentally, my subconscious sees it that I received it."
At eight o'clock that evening her fiancé gave her the exact bag."
He then proceeds to explain that this was because of her telling her subconscious that this bag was hers. Now I highly doubt that is true I mean it sounds pretty far fetched. I'm not saying that if you shouldn't follow his little never be negative rule I think it's a great idea. However don't expect a Porsche to show in your drive way tomorrow morning because you told yourself it would.
Next he tells a few more stories like this one and summarizes the whole chapter. In this summary Murphy specifically days that if you tell your subconscious mind right before bed to wake you up at six o'clock it will. I am going to put this to the test tonight and let you know if it worked. See you tomorrow morning.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Phoenix
I have a three year old brother named Phoenix. For a while I've been finding it quite odd that he wants to be bigger than everyone, lies blatantly, and believes that pink (along with other things) is for girls and he's a boy so he has to hate it. Now I have no idea how these things came to him, my family certainly doesn't teach him those kinds of things, so how does he get those ideas? He even one time screamed at me for calling him my baby brother because he's a "big boy me no baby!!" What's wrong with being a baby? I don't know but he sure seems to. I don't know how or why we do these things but it seems like it might have to do with the subconscious. Ill look into it and let you know.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
When u pick a random number is it really random?
I was watching an episode of White Collar, it's a really good show one of my favorites, and the main character mentioned some thing about things never really being random and our subconscious minds always being at work. Of course this caught my attention and really interested me so i did some digging. When some one asks you to pick a random number can it really be random? Can a number even be random or can only a sequence be random? Well I'm not sure so we'll look at both. First up just the number, so when you look at it, any number can be random if it is standing on its own, but it isn't because we make connections to every thing. If you hear the number 7 you'll almost always automatically think of something like that being the age of your cousin or your best friend from childhoods favorite number. Our brains make connections and if you're reading this you've been alive enough to some how make a connection with almost any "random" number. Now moving on to the sequence, when you ask most people to pick a random string of numbers it will sound something like 4, 27, 83, 11, 92 not like 6, 75790555567888764349000075322456456291689.35678905421235667888532355677312466789954, -11123344555, 4008, 1 1/5 right? Whether this is because of familiarity or laziness I don't know, but the second sequence was all numbers, we just don't think about fractions and negatives and decimals and the fact that numbers are INFINITE. We would need to use some pretty huge numbers to be completely random. But isn't it random to just use 6, 10, 4, 3, and 18? I mean really what is random? Here dictionary.com's definition
1.
proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern
So it would need to have no aim, reason, or pattern? That would be kinda hard to do considering everything we do has an aim, reason, or pattern! And with numbers there are so many freaking patterns it would take you forever to find a sequence of numbers with no pattern! How "random" could it be if you had to meticulously figure it out? Is nature random? cause there are patterns in it EVERYWHERE. And if nature isn't random then we sure as heck aren't. So yeah our amazing subconscious is always pattern forming and working its little butt off to make sure we can't pick completely random numbers. Good luck next time you pick your "random" PIN number:)
P.S. if you read that huge decimal number their I give major props
1.
proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern
So it would need to have no aim, reason, or pattern? That would be kinda hard to do considering everything we do has an aim, reason, or pattern! And with numbers there are so many freaking patterns it would take you forever to find a sequence of numbers with no pattern! How "random" could it be if you had to meticulously figure it out? Is nature random? cause there are patterns in it EVERYWHERE. And if nature isn't random then we sure as heck aren't. So yeah our amazing subconscious is always pattern forming and working its little butt off to make sure we can't pick completely random numbers. Good luck next time you pick your "random" PIN number:)
P.S. if you read that huge decimal number their I give major props
Monday, October 29, 2012
Book talk
I figured out I was reading the book completely wrong, it is actually set in a book format not just random sections like I thought. Oh well, I just started to read it from the beginning again. So the first section just talks about why he wrote the book and all that stuff which is boring. You don't really care about that so ill just move on to the other stuff.
Ch 1- The Treasure House Within You
In the intro he talks about how some people end up really successful and others really struggle. He says that the struggling man is full of doubts and fears and the other is full of confidence and faith. I don't think that this is really true some people that I have seen dont doubt enough and end up getting in some really big messes. But basically what he is saying is that some how he will make you the confident faithful man "born to win and succeed". He then proceeds to tell you that in order to do that you need to train yourself to use your subconscious mind (he wants you to do this by talking to your two minds out loud and demeaning your conscious mind). This all seems kinda like a load of crap to me, I am the complete opposite of gullible, but I try to keep an open mind so if you really believe in it I respect that and completely understand. Actually, I believe that if you really believe that it will work it most likely will. Now this kind of self help book is not what I was looking for. But then he starts to move into some more solid factual things not just his own theories.
Necessity of a Working Basis (each chapter has subsections)
Here he explains his working basis "The universal truth that what ever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event".Then he talks about praying which I think is very random and unimportant. Even as a practicing Catholic I thought this was very miss placed.
The Duality of Mind
Here Murphy starts to regain my interest. He explains that which I have already learned in a new way. "You have only one mind but possesses two distinct characteristics...The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the voluntary and involuntary mind, the male and female, and many others". (male and female gave me a good laugh) So I guess the whole subconscious and unconscious being the same thing is true (according to this ,apparently Ph.D, D.D, guy). He proceeds to talk about the reasoning and not reasoning which I have already talked about then tells me to follow my unreasoning mind? Huuuumm sound a little suspicious.
To be continued....
Ch 1- The Treasure House Within You
In the intro he talks about how some people end up really successful and others really struggle. He says that the struggling man is full of doubts and fears and the other is full of confidence and faith. I don't think that this is really true some people that I have seen dont doubt enough and end up getting in some really big messes. But basically what he is saying is that some how he will make you the confident faithful man "born to win and succeed". He then proceeds to tell you that in order to do that you need to train yourself to use your subconscious mind (he wants you to do this by talking to your two minds out loud and demeaning your conscious mind). This all seems kinda like a load of crap to me, I am the complete opposite of gullible, but I try to keep an open mind so if you really believe in it I respect that and completely understand. Actually, I believe that if you really believe that it will work it most likely will. Now this kind of self help book is not what I was looking for. But then he starts to move into some more solid factual things not just his own theories.
Necessity of a Working Basis (each chapter has subsections)
Here he explains his working basis "The universal truth that what ever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event".Then he talks about praying which I think is very random and unimportant. Even as a practicing Catholic I thought this was very miss placed.
The Duality of Mind
Here Murphy starts to regain my interest. He explains that which I have already learned in a new way. "You have only one mind but possesses two distinct characteristics...The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the voluntary and involuntary mind, the male and female, and many others". (male and female gave me a good laugh) So I guess the whole subconscious and unconscious being the same thing is true (according to this ,apparently Ph.D, D.D, guy). He proceeds to talk about the reasoning and not reasoning which I have already talked about then tells me to follow my unreasoning mind? Huuuumm sound a little suspicious.
To be continued....
Answer. I think.
I think I might have started to figuring out the whole thing with my dad. So the subconscious controls our instincts and it was instinctive that my dad found it a moment to be documented. Of course this instinct was brought on by every thing his subconscious has stored through out his life.
Friday, October 26, 2012
New book!
I started to read "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" it is split up into little sections and I read the "Conscious And Subconscious Terms differentiated". It is quite obvious what it was about, but it was written in a way that made it easy to understand. What it said was that the conscious mind is your reasoning mind, it tells you what must be right and what must be wrong. Your subconscious has no reasoning abilities it simply stores anything that you once believed as true no matter how false it may be. This made me understand a lot more about how we learn and understand things. Have you ever noticed that when you learn something it's almost impossible to unlearn? Like when one of your teachers teaches you something one way then another teaches you a different way it's really hard to follow the new way. I also believe this is why older people have a hard time being open minded and willing to change, their mind has been stuffed with "truth" their whole lives while younger generations are still learning all those "truths" so are more excepting of new ideas. Sorry to cut it short but I have to go I'll elaborate on this more later.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
An Update
Yesterday I went to the library and got two new books; The Power of Your Subconcsious Mind by Joseph Murphy and The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. They seem to be more what I was looking for hopfully I'll find them more interesting than my original book. Sorry I wasn't able to start reading already, my brother broke his arm last night and I was at the hospital. I'll keep you posted on that, oh, and I'm currently trying to contact Candace Pert.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Hurray!
So I asked one of my friends to help me a little with my research, she's really good with that kind of stuff, and she found a neuroscientist named Candance Pert that looks pretty promising. From what I've seen she focuses on the science behind the subconcious, which is what I'm interested in, and has written a book called "Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind". Now i know there are people that have stubied the science behind the subconcious not just the new age stuff, bye-bye Nobel Prize.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Secret agent?
So I was so desperate for some clarity I looked in "The Complete Idiots Guide to Psychology" and found that it described our subconscious mind as sort of our "secret agent" which I found to be really interesting. In it the author explained what I have been talking about in the past few posts the whole subconscious stores every thing thing. It also gave an example of people being able to recall conversations doctors had while they were being worked on that they couldn't possibly have known. Of course the methods of getting this information can seem a little sketchy. Hypnosis, I mean, it sounds completely crazy but many people swear to its accomplishments and we must stay open minded so I say why not?
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Daddy Dilemma
So today my Dad came home from work and asked my brother how he'd done at his cross country meet, my brother proceeded to turn around and show him his shirt that said "Invitational Champions". Of course my dad became very happy and was all "good job son"s and "I'm so proud of you"s etc. etc. so then he asked my mother to take a picture of him and Preston, my brother, with the shirt on. I couldn't help but notice that he never took a picture of me with my Educational Award of Honor certificate signed by the freakin' president or any of the other awards I've gotten for being smart. I mean honestly its not like Preston actually won it himself he just got it because his TEAM could run fast. And I know my dad was proud of me for all of my stuff too, it just isn't celebrated as publicly as a physical victory. Some people may disagree but I think our society puts a higher honor an physical talents. Not many people I know sit down as a family to watch the national math bowl, but they do watch their local sports teams and the Olympics. Now I'm not saying that my father purposefully decided that my brother was more accomplished then I, in fact the opposite, I know my dad would rather have us both be intelligent than good at sports. However he has grown up in America where he has been effected by society and the media and he SUBCONSCIOUSLY found this moment to be a moment of honor and needing of documentation, which is exactly what is happening all around us all the time. So I'm not yet sure how this part of subconscious works but i'll figure it out soon, and that is also why this is labeled under Random thoughts.
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