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TlalocW

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16. When this first came out

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 10:08 PM

Jan 2013

I saw the gorilla. There were others that were slightly more complicated that I missed EVERYTHING. I'm a part time magician and was watching a video of a demonstration of a trick and got roped into something they said, "If you pay attention, you'll figure it out." So I intently watched the trick, but every few seconds, something would change. For instance, the magician would give a pack of cards to a volunteer, and the camera would focus on her. Well, he was offscreen for a few seconds, the magician took off an outer shirt that was a different color than his inner one. The camera would focus on their upper bodies, and people would pull off the top tablecloth to reveal a different on. It would focus on the table, and the backdrop would change color, etc. None of these were cuts; it was one unbroken shot. It blew my mind.

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The Invisible Gorilla In The Room: One reason so many people are so ignorant [View all] Fumesucker Jan 2013 OP

IMO people are ignorant because they don't or can't listen with their senses. All through K-12 jody Jan 2013 #1

Pay too much attention and you get overwhelmed with data Fumesucker Jan 2013 #2

Agree. One must learn to focus on the topic not unlike concentration of an athlete, e.g. golfer. jody Jan 2013 #5

Our senses are to a big extent ad hoc hacks, vision particularly so Fumesucker Jan 2013 #9

Understand, that's why the "quiet eye" concept is so intriguing. Foveal vision feeds one part of jody Jan 2013 #10

I thought you probably knew, that was more for others reading the thread Fumesucker Jan 2013 #12

I've worked on vision concepts for so long as a competitor that it's now purely unconscious. jody Jan 2013 #14

I suspect though that those people in their environment could see things you found difficult Fumesucker Jan 2013 #15

I notice that in chess, at least at low levels hfojvt Jan 2013 #41

Did you ever watch the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer"? CrispyQ Jan 2013 #53

The fact that vision can be so easily fooled... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #19

And that our mind can be so easily fooled Fumesucker Jan 2013 #36

+1000. nt awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #49

What gorilla? Did you post the wrong video? (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #3

I watched it with my wife pscot Jan 2013 #6

LOL, same here! The second time I watched, I refused to believe it was... Poll_Blind Jan 2013 #43

It is why after every major event, except for plants, eyewitnesses see nothing graham4anything Jan 2013 #4

It's not only a weakness ... surrealAmerican Jan 2013 #7

That's right folks, don't touch that dial Fumesucker Jan 2013 #8

"The the fact that we can focus is not necessarily a problem" loyalsister Jan 2013 #11

I find it hard to believe you think the average freeper is as well informed as the average DUer Fumesucker Jan 2013 #13

Equating basic perceptual processes with purposeful intellectual processes is really reaching loyalsister Jan 2013 #17

I never mentioned intelligence, only information Fumesucker Jan 2013 #20

Seriously? loyalsister Jan 2013 #21

You don't think perceptual errors have anything to do with people being ignorant? Fumesucker Jan 2013 #23

I studied perception and memory loyalsister Jan 2013 #27

For a lot of people things that conflict with the propaganda are indeed unintentionally ignored Fumesucker Jan 2013 #29

The experiment shows that not seeing the gorilla is adaptive loyalsister Jan 2013 #33

This quote comes from the experimenters. Fumesucker Jan 2013 #35

If that's the case they are clueless loyalsister Jan 2013 #45

At no point have I indicated that missing the gorilla is not "natural" Fumesucker Jan 2013 #48

Being able to ignore some stimuli is adaptive loyalsister Jan 2013 #54

I counted fifteen passes and saw the gorilla Mojorabbit Jan 2013 #40

I can count things subconsciously. I don't know why. hunter Jan 2013 #58

You could turn that around Oilwellian Jan 2013 #47

When this first came out TlalocW Jan 2013 #16

Watch people driving by a car accident... DryHump Jan 2013 #18

I saw the gorilla. LWolf Jan 2013 #22

This is my favorite reason XRubicon Jan 2013 #24

Everyone is the hero of their own story n/t Fumesucker Jan 2013 #26

not me hfojvt Jan 2013 #42

DU is full of really choice invisible replies. PETRUS Jan 2013 #25

Media "balance" also got worse after the fairness doctrine was revoked CitizenK9 Jan 2013 #28

I counted fourteen passes and saw the gorilla Brother Buzz Jan 2013 #30

Congratulations, you're from Lake Wobegon Fumesucker Jan 2013 #31

Well, all our women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above Brother Buzz Jan 2013 #32

i interpret this as a commentary on pro sports Enrique Jan 2013 #34

It doesn't prove that we "miss" anything of the kind. It proves that we're programmed to be ancianita Jan 2013 #37

And foregrounding something leads to "missing" other things cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #38

It wasn't intended as a scientific experiment but as a demonstration of selective inattention Fumesucker Jan 2013 #39

I used the game of boggle to illustrate reality hfojvt Jan 2013 #44

Not me. I was keeping count and clearly saw the gorilla enter the scene. Duer 157099 Jan 2013 #46

Most of what we think we see and hear is a confabulation of the brain. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #50

People do not know how to see liberal N proud Jan 2013 #51

Interesting. Part of what's going on in this thread is the collision of two world views. alberg Jan 2013 #52

There is a third world view that is neither. Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #56

Take enough psychedelics over the course of your lifetime Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #55

I have the opposite problem... The gorilla made me forget what the assignment was! reformist2 Jan 2013 #57