The bit about click trains puts me in mind of JS Bach's harpsichord music. Their intense rhythms always gave me the impression of "the sound of a mind, thinking". Maybe there's more to it....
I am curious. If the brain perceives visual motion at 13 fps why is it that we can tell a difference in movies that are captured at something like 13 fps and ones captured at 30 or 60 fps? Maybe it has to do with those seperate threads they were talking about. Perhaps we process changes of light faster than motion and we notice the screen flicker. Any thoughts out there?
Was this done under natural or artificial light. Artificial light has a strobe effect due to AC current
"Many people report seeing the wagon-wheel effect on car wheels under continuous illumination. The effect can be produced with a special pattern of lug nut orientation, but often there are other explanations. Some cars have special wheels called spinners; these can truly rotate backwards. With conventional wheels, there's always the possibility of stroboscopic illumination. At night, it can come from artificial light sources. During the day, it can come from reflections from another car's wheels that are rotating at a slightly different rate from that of the observed wheel, or even from another wheel of the observed car if its diameter is not exactly the same as that of the observed wheel. The same caution needs to be exercised for propellers if other propellers are spinning nearby."
Fps
Sun Oct 25 08:24:37 GMT 2009 by Dan
http://www.cognitiveharmony.net
Not all artificial light... Just fluorescents. Incandescents are just heat.
The "separate threads" idea sounds pretty good to me.Not quite the same effect as you write of,Chris,but I have noticed that in a car smash (for instance) while events are slowed visually sound is (apparently) non-existent.
The slo-mo is quite pleasant but the explosion of sound and subsequent events as you "catch up" with the real world is not nice.
You get the "sound explosion" even if only sliding to a halt (i.e. no impact).
Im wondering, given one waveform at 7 Hz, and another waveform at 13 Hz, each governing instantaneous encoding sensitivity, will there be found an 11 Hz waveform, so that the mixing of 7,11, and 13 Hz prime values, give rise to the 1001 Hz beat frequency, which seems to be the maximum response rate of a neuron, and so give 10 milliseconds reactions in some responses?
The time variations for schizophrenia is very intresting as well, maybe it cna be used for a simple roadside or pre purchase test, to see if people can handle traffic complexities, or what varying amount, etc?
Perhaps.....but those values depend on how you define a second! Although obviously their relative values don't...
Binaurals
Wed Oct 21 19:45:00 BST 2009 by Dirk Bruere
http://www.neopax.com
Binaural tones are better at entraining brainwaves than clicks. There is a whole technology of mixing binaurals to get specific brain states and effects, including speeding up and slowing down of perceptions.
I remembered almost every second of my life, just seconds before hitting a tree in a car accident I had several years ago...I was about 23 years old. it only took about 3 seconds to hit the tree, open the door of my car and run for help, but the last 23 years of my life passed in those 3 seconds.
From "The Funny Times":
"People do stuff. They have reasons for doing stuff. In that order."
We rarely actually premeditate our actions. We mostly just respond to stimuli automatically and then delude ourselves as to why we needed to buy that candy bar or shiny new car. Advertisers know this. They just don't tell us that they know it. It's in the file in the abandoned lavatory behind the "Beware of the Leopard" sign.
It isn't time travel, it's Imagination. It works so well because it tells us it works so well, and it tells us it said so yesterday.
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