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The image of the world you see is flipped upside down,
it
doesn't actually exist as your body first perceives it since
it
had to be processed by a lens that distorted it (flipped it
upside down) to direct it to your sensory mechanism.
Your brain took this image and flipped it. There is no
projection or picture of the world right side up in your
body, the image you're perceiving now was created by
your brain.
The concept is to remind yourself you're looking at a
representation of the world that's flipped upside down
and
your brain is flipping it right side up to match reality and
to consider how powerful your brain can be at changing
perception.
Can it be applied to other areas? Can a hard
time in life be seen as a challenge and therefore a good
thing? Can pain be re-categorized as exercise? Can
sadness
be re-categorized as the bill you have to pay for being
human and feeling love and other emotions that might
tax
your strength? The sensory mechanisms that feel the
biting cold of
winter
are the same that feel the warmth of the summer sun or
the cooling breeze on a hot day.
If our brain can flip the world upside down, what other
perceptions can it change to help us through life if we
direct it to do so?
Woke up last night thinking about this for some reason,
maybe it was a weird dream or something,
not sure if it makes any
sense.
Dunning - Kruger Effect
https://en.wikipedi...%80%93Kruger_effect
[Frankx, Sep 23 2021]
Motivation and Life Guidance From Web-Enabled Screenwriters
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my old idea for something not unrelated [sninctown, Oct 09 2021]
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It could be because strictly speaking there is no actual invention here, just insight.
That said, this type of thought process is almost exactly how I go about taking negatives, flipping them on their heads, and turning them into positives.
For me though it started by contemplating the colour green.
When you see a green leaf it is Really every colour but green. It rejects the green spectrum of light and therefore our perception of things is quite opposite to reality.
This would make a raven the most brightly coloured bird as it absorbs the largest portion of the entire spectrum of light while a swan rejects most of it and is therefore very dark... we just can't see it that way. |
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...and if all of our perceptions are an inversion of reality then, perhaps time itself flows in reverse from fixed end results and we merely are unable to perceive it that way while trapped within four dimensions. |
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I guess it could be a "Perception Exercise". |
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Let me play with the wording. |
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I think what you said about color perception would
fit right in with this. Knowing the world in your mind
is a processed reality really does beg the question
"What opportunities do I have to change this
processed reality?" |
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I find this helpful in assessing whether I should do
something, or when doubting my abilities at something. I
ask myself "What if I am really bad at assessing my own
skills and qualities?" |
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I do that every day. It really is and has always been
my big life challenge. Then I try to remember that I
rose to the challenge and completed the goal. You
can surprise yourself. |
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//assessing my own skills and qualities// |
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The fact that you question, means you're probably good. |
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Dunning-Kruger effect [link]. |
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I was once required to write a competency specification
for a particular role - of which I was the only role-holder.
Then I got into this whole think-loop of "how can I judge
my own competency" |
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If I'm not competent at a task, then I'm also not
competent to judge my own competency at that task, and
am likely to judge myself as competent... |
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//Can a hard time in life be seen as a challenge and therefore a good thing? Can pain be re-categorized as exercise// |
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To do so is to deny reality. To do so with much vigor is to pursue insanity. To succeed is to become insane. Many people have become insane to escape pain and misery. In fact in my opinion that's the most common reason to do so. It's a long slog back out, if there is a way out at all. On the whole most people are better served by admitting that their situation is an unhappy one. |
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Well, my point was, can a hard time be seen as a
challenge and
therefore
a good thing AFTER you've risen up to the
challenge
and conquered it? |
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You obviously don't accept anything bad without at least
trying to
change it. You accept the challenge as a part of
life
that can be good because it generated the
strength in you to win. |
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Doesn't take any work to admit your situation is
bad. So then what? Keep admitting the situation is
bad? Sounds like feeling sorry for yourself to me.
So okay, feel sorry for yourself, then what? Keep
doing it again and again and again? Isn't that the
textbook definition of insanity? |
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And just to be clear, I'm so superman, these are just some
things I try to keep in mind to get me through the hard
times, which believe me, I've had my fair share of. |
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I told somebody about a business that I started in a
garage in my youth and lost years later that was worth
quite a bit of money and the person I relayed the story to
said "I would have committed suicide if that happened to
me." I was like "Well, thanks for the moral support, but I
am glad I didn't go that route. |
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Just found out this is totally baked. They teach this exact
thing in a psychology class one of my kids is taking. Not
similar, exact, essentially word for word. |
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It's cyclic like everything else.
Humans during times of war vie for peace.
Humans during times of peace create art.
Humans never having known strife are open to corruption.
Corrupt humans lust for power.
Power further corrupts, art is destroyed, and war is inevitable at that point. |
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As far as I've been able to determine the only point at which that cycle can be broken is between the ''corrupt humans lust for power" and the "power further corrupts" point. |
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Kind of like where we are now. |
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Low level physical stuff like light mapping, possibly the other sense inputs, would be a few layers of neural netting so can be flipped. Emotion and higher order outputs/actions are a multitude of complex data sets and modelling. There is no one dimension to flip. Those usually get changed through the introduction of new lines of data to blend with current model data sets. |
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What I'm trying to say, the sense flip, I think, isn't high enough in the mental/mind model to make a real impact. |
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Well, this would be an exercise in how perception works
towards the
acceptance that perception can be changed, albeit
by different mechanisms for different systems. |
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Maybe a good analogy would be the maple seed
fluttering down out of a tree that inspires the
helicopter. Yes, one is orders of magnitude more
complicated but there are enough similarities that
one might inspire the other. |
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If the thought that you brain flips images inspires
you to try to flip other perceptions, the concept
works. |
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But like I said, this is already well baked in the
study of psychology so I should probably take it
down. |
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I think as a mental exercise and coping strategy it's good,
and that justifies it as an invention, so don't delete - it
might just help someone in difficult times. |
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I do use something like this - doesn't always work but it
can be effective at distracting from pain, physical
discomfort etc. |
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It kind of goes along with the motto "what does not kill
me makes me stronger" |
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Also //I'm so superman// - and you're so modest too! |
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lol! You made my day Franx, leaving this up per your
request. |
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This is good. It puts into words a floating idea Iv'e never
been able to quite nail down, myself, but have always
wanted , nay, longed to. |
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Basically, i think it asks one to put to practical test the oft-
spouted theory that we only use 10% of our brains.
- And suggests a method for using more, in order to improve
life, or at least one's outlook on life. I'm all for it. |
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But I think there's an exercise like that in Psychology called
'reframing'.
Like when you tell people you're cold, and they say
something like: 'Just be glad you're not in Antarctica!'
(As if that will somehow warm you up.) |
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I've also heard of 'putting things in perspective', and then
there's that dubious phrase: 'magical thinking'. Both of
these quite possibly have potential, if they could be
conscientiously employed. |
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Cats do it - looking at the world upside down when they're
bored. Which is a lot of the time. |
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I'd say it classifies more as a skill to be developed, than an
invention.
It's helpful, but could become a double-edged sword: great
and awe-inspiring things could be flipped, or reframed if
you like, to look piddling and mediocre. |
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Case in point - this very post!
Perception Calibration Method...A discussion about a vital,
life-enhancing skill, thrust unceremoniously among all sorts
of other random ideas in some bakery somewhere. When it
could be printed in embossed font on the cover of a slick,
high-gloss self-help manual on the shelves of every
bookstore everywhere, no? |
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The pop version could be titled: 'How to Flip Your Lid for
Fun and Profit'... |
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Maybe there needs to be a 'self help' category around
here...There doesn't appear to be one anywhere in the
bakery. I looked - through at least half of it. Nothing! |
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Hello, [Edie]; nice to see you back here. |
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Wow, thank you for a very interesting annotation
Edie. Virtual bun for you. [+] |
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