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The most interesting part was when she explained how, "We eat with our eyes". Well put!
Fruit Loops are actually all the same flavor, but the colors influence (brainwash?) our brains into believing the purple ones taste like grapes and the orange ones taste like oranges, etc.
Besides the colors, there's the name of the product ... it's Fruit Loops, not just Colored Loops, or Rainbow Loops. The power of suggestion!
So not only can we not believe what we see, we cannot believe what we taste.
In fact, all 5 senses are influenced away from pure truth by our brains.
Read the book ...
I've mentioned a riveting (for me) book I bought at a University Book Sale, "Sensation & Perception", copyright 2006.
Today's version:
The book goes in depth into the medical science of each sense, and has examples of how the brain distorts (perceives) what our senses tell the brain.
A snip from Amazon's description:
"You might be surprised to know that although perception is easy -- we see, hear, feel touch, and experience taste and smell without much effort -- the mechanisms that create perceptions are both extremely complex and hidden from our view."
Bottom line: we trust our five senses way too much.
There's that saying, "Seeing is believing".
But it should NOT be, because it ISN'T!
Example: optical illusions.
The signal that each sense sends to the brain is pure, but the brain instantly, slyly, and clandestinely adjust/tweaks/modifies the signal.
We are usually clueless that what we believe from our senses it not actually true.
I think lawyers must have a field day challenging witnesses who testify about what their senses told them.
Fruit Loops are actually all the same flavor, but the colors influence (brainwash?) our brains into believing the purple ones taste like grapes and the orange ones taste like oranges, etc.
Besides the colors, there's the name of the product ... it's Fruit Loops, not just Colored Loops, or Rainbow Loops. The power of suggestion!
So not only can we not believe what we see, we cannot believe what we taste.
In fact, all 5 senses are influenced away from pure truth by our brains.
Read the book ...
I've mentioned a riveting (for me) book I bought at a University Book Sale, "Sensation & Perception", copyright 2006.
Today's version:
The book goes in depth into the medical science of each sense, and has examples of how the brain distorts (perceives) what our senses tell the brain.
A snip from Amazon's description:
"You might be surprised to know that although perception is easy -- we see, hear, feel touch, and experience taste and smell without much effort -- the mechanisms that create perceptions are both extremely complex and hidden from our view."
Bottom line: we trust our five senses way too much.
There's that saying, "Seeing is believing".
But it should NOT be, because it ISN'T!
Example: optical illusions.
The signal that each sense sends to the brain is pure, but the brain instantly, slyly, and clandestinely adjust/tweaks/modifies the signal.
We are usually clueless that what we believe from our senses it not actually true.
I think lawyers must have a field day challenging witnesses who testify about what their senses told them.
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I went to an event as part of a local food and drink festival, presented by an Oxford University Professor of their Department of Experiental Psychology, on the topic of how our senses work together, and why it is very difficult to replicate the enjoyment of food and drink consumed during our holidays.
It was very insightful.
DK
It was very insightful.
DK
Not just eating with our eyes but our noses too - so much of taste actually comes from retronasal olfaction (smelling the odors that come up from your mouth into your nose the back way).
And if you think there is an issue with what eyewitnesses report they perceived, you should know how much our memories are distorted as well. I always tell my students that one of the big takeaways of my classes are that we should trust our memory and even our senses way less than we'd like to.
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