Training Oneself to Notice
Mark Federman,
What is the (Next) Message?,
Jul 02, 2007
Oh this is a great illusion. I'll let you look at it for yourself without telling you anything about it. What i will say here is that this illusion illustrates not only how our perceptions can shift from one alternative to the next, but how we can train ourselves to switch these perceptions (I first saw it one way, then the other way, then I had to work to see it the first way again, covering the shadow until I could train myself to see it that way again).
"People who are used to engaging with their world in a hot way - fragmenting, categorizing, separating, applying linear, deductive reasoning - in other words, those who have been trained to be chronically literate, have a great deal of difficulty seeing the world "spin" in any other way... There are lots of methods to help see the world turn in different ways. But each of them takes practice - practice to learn and master the techniques, and practice in learning how not to be distracted by our previous training and socialization."
"People who are used to engaging with their world in a hot way - fragmenting, categorizing, separating, applying linear, deductive reasoning - in other words, those who have been trained to be chronically literate, have a great deal of difficulty seeing the world "spin" in any other way... There are lots of methods to help see the world turn in different ways. But each of them takes practice - practice to learn and master the techniques, and practice in learning how not to be distracted by our previous training and socialization."
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