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Critical & Creative Thinking Resources: Limits of Perception

Understanding, for better or worse, starts with entertaining the idea that something is true. The brain tries to make thinking easier by creating heuristics, but sometimes these are inaccurate. Therefore you must be vigilant in evaluating any assumption.

Hypothesis: You can only evaluate what you can perceive or imagine. What else is out there?

Our perceptions of reality are only as good as the input receptors we can access that can collect changes in input which we /our-brains/our-computers can interpret and even then the interpretation may change with new data/input/understandings.
- Autistic point of view - The Autistic Brain, By Dr Temple Grandin
- Perceiving polarization with the naked eye: characterization of human polarization sensitivity
- Hallucinations - What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks
- Blind Learn To See With Tongue
- Echolocation
  - Online Exclusive: Blind man uses bat-like vision
  - Look Back on the Boy Who Could See With Sound
- Synesthesia
  - Neil Harbisson: This artist implanted an antenna in his skull to “hear colors”
- Consider that if the majority of people were color blind, the color red might be in dispute!
  - Plus insect, fish, animals, reptiles can perceive parts of the electromagnetic spectrum than humans cannot by themselves - How Do Some Animals See Colors Differently Than Humans?
  - Biofluorescence: A Neon World Hidden in Plain Sight
- Many things that were called magic are now understood through scientific knowledge.
  - Spontaneous generation theory debunked by microscopy
  - Psychosomatic - I mplications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus
- Many things are still mysterious
  - "Double-slit" experiment controversy Observer effect real? - Commentary: False-Positive Effect in the Radin Double-Slit Experiment on Observer Consciousness as Determined With the Advanced Meta-Experimental Protocol
  - Quantum entanglement - Your Simple (Yes, Simple) Guide to Quantum Entanglement
- Science Fiction becomes reality ... exponentially
  - controlling prosthetic with brain - ‘It’s like you have a hand again’: An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic
  - controlling a mouse brain - Scientists connect a human brain and 'rat cyborg' brain together
    Chinese researchers have linked a human brain to a rat's brain, allowing "mind control" of the rat's movements.

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