Our Visual System Has 'Future Seeing' Powers - Study

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark Changizi says that actions like catching a football or easily moving through a room full of people requires something more than quickly responding to a situation - it requires our ability to foresee the future.

[Cash]

I always had this but I called it my 'Spidey sense.' Now you know my secret.

[Ajepa]

I wonder how the catcher feels when the ball he forsees in his mitt is suddenly not there?

[Billy Jack]

1. How was it determined that 0.1 sec. elapses from time photon strikes retina to visual perception?
2.For me, Orbison boxes were all the same and the Herring parallel lines wern't bowed. Yet this shows evolution elcits premonition of the near future?
3.Why was nothing said about inaging a scene in which the objects were in motion or in a potential and making a probalistic estimate of the events and position changes in the immediate future?
I conclude that I think, therefor I am not.

[You Too]

Cash wrote:

I always had this but I called it my 'Spidey sense.' Now you know my secret.

Simpsons clip 8 "Spiderpig"

http://youtube.com/watch...

Its me. For real.

[ModernDayEdison]

We prepare for college.....but why?

We attend college.....why?

We wind up taking a lesser job than
that for which we studied for in college.....why?

Thomas Alva Edison only had an Eighth Grade
Education, but he forsaw WWII and tried to
mass produce an electric automobile to head
off the United States role in it.

The vehicle was re-engineered and introduced
to the public as the Ford Model T after Edison's
ouster from General Electric.....not long before
the formation of General Motors I might add.

Model T.....for Thomas

Model A.....for Alva

Edison was a big fan of another prominant
individual in American industry from an earlier
era who also had the distinguished honor of only
having an Eighth Grade Education.....who forsaw
the Wesatward Expansion of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, and acted upon it.

His name was Andrew Carnegie....and he was one
of the wealthiest men in the history of the
United States who at one point was wealthier
than the U.S. Treasury Department.

The story of how both men rose to wealth and
fame is a must read for any serious entrepreneur.

The raw power and potential energy of following
through with a set of principles, ideals, and or
ideas to derive at a desired end.

Not much has changed in a few hundred years.

We just have more bells and whistles that's all.

[ModernDayEdison]

And much higher gas prices.

Which is making me rethink the whole
self-sufficient electric automobile
issue, if you know what I mean.

[formally abducted]

great article,learning to understand and utilize our perception will greatly enhance our advantages in many areas,I guess the military will have first crack as usual.

[Subliminal Messages]

Oh...EYE see.

[Subliminal Messages]

....Oh yeah...digital tuners.

[truthist]

Cash wrote:

I always had this but I called it my 'Spidey sense.' Now you know my secret.

Really????

:)

I thought this was my secret.

[DMH]

Funny, I always thought this was called "anticipation", augmented with experience.

[WLK]

The headline (as so often is the case) is misleading.

The visual system is part of the overall "interception/avoidance " undertaking. Some people learned when very young to perceive a ball in flight, observe its motion, calculate (however simply) its path and predict where it will be if they move to catch it. Some people never learn and drive in front of an approaching vehicle in the forlorn belief that "it won't hit me!"

[BRAZIN]

Ah so that's how Nostradamus did it

[just me]

Ajepa wrote:

I wonder how the catcher feels when the ball he forsees in his mitt is suddenly not there?

lol,,happens all the time with a knuckle ball pitcher.

[DiffEq]

You can call it seeing into the future but our brains are these complex analog pattern matching machines. Some of the patterns that they are able to match are trajectories. Finding the equation that a basketball or baseball needs to reach its target is complex but our brains do it effortlessly (or in my case, the ball rarely reaches the mark but you get the gist).

[damskippy]

I see beer in my future.

[Guess Who]

Ajepa wrote:

I wonder how the catcher feels when the ball he forsees in his mitt is suddenly not there?

LOL

[Guess Who]

But can you see the ball coming and duck?

[Guess Who]

I think nostradumbass was more of smeller...

[Guess Who]

We are not just one big eye....