Guys, just post any video you think might be interesting on the topic of human perception.

Svennoj, you're invited!

I'll start with the first video:

This was super interesting, and I agree with it whole-heartedly. I always joke with my coworkers that delivery and presentation are the most important things for a person to have in life, and this further proves that point. :P

It's not the words you say, it's how you say it. He was a man of different personality in those two videos, whether it was a fake personality or not. Your personality is extremely important.

As a side comment, I'm totally cool with girls who want to work and help provide, but I hope these young females of the world aren't forgetting that someone will need to take care of their children someday, and I hope for their childrens' sakes that it's one of the parents.

 Interesting. watched some more of that series, and it kind of reminded me of Discovery's Science of Sex Appeal.

Now it's my turn

Everyone knows the 5 human senses: Vision, sound, smell, taste and touch. But what's this? There are many more!

6. Equilibrioception - Sense of balance

7. Thermoception - sense of heat, and the absence of it

8. Nociception - Sense of pain. This one interacts with the all of the other senses. For example, You can feel pain via physical contact (touch), but you can also feel pain if you are too close to a fire, even if the fire doesn't touch you.

9. Proprioception - Body Awareness. Close your eyes and move your hand above your head, and to the left and right of your head. Even though you can't see your hand, you know exactly where it is in relation to the rest of your body. This one is my favorite :)

There are more, but those are the most common ones

And you thought a sixth sense was outrageous

 I kind of did for a second. Thanks for informing me.

I was gonna watch some of the others in the series, they looked interesting.

This one is a lot trickier, so please view carefully. I'm not saying faith is wrong, I'm just saying some people take advantage of it, so be careful:

Eek 1h:13 for the 2nd one, I still want to watch the closing ceremony. Bookmarked.

The first one is pretty much how politicians are chosen nowadays. Doesn't matter at all what they say, just smile and look charismatic when you say it. Lewis Black has some funny observations about that, even better ones on religion.

My wife and I met while playing Everquest with only text communication. Me pretty depressed at the time, she in an abusive relationship. How did that turn into a successful marriage?

I'm looking forward to the videos you'll post for us, you had a pretty good one a while ago about tricks over perception.

Oh, gosh, the fist video is so overproduced and stretched out, I found it painful to watch. Watch bothers me is they are trying to say they are showing science, when they are not.

Still, making a good first impression is great quality to develop and have. I think few people have it, and when I find them, I always want to offer them a job.

Damn ageing brain, I still can't remember the name of that series I posted before. It is the same narrator as in the videos you posted.

This is one of the most entertaining things to read about cognition and perception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Or you can search on you tube for 'cognitive science and perception' turns up some great results.
For example this video with some neat tricks that also appeared in the more flashy series I posted before and can't remember the name of :(


I think cognitive science should be a required course in high school. It was one of the most interesting courses I took during my college years. You learn a lot about how your brain works, what you can trust of your senses, and what all the side effects are of a brain desperately trying to find patterns and familiar shapes in an imperfect sensor system with lots of noise.
"I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes" Well that's really not a good reason at all tbh.

Should science go the direction it really is, we are looking at the future where we would have the ability to manipulate, even splice DNA's... 
In any case, I'm not entirely sure how much I'm veering off topic, but I posted a thread about how instinctive we are of sound patterns as if it were a language:

Power of Pentatonic Scale:

[On this very space, wherein a video supposedly lies]

We don’t know much about the human brain on music. Do people instinctively know the sound patterns of the pentatonic scale? Is there a base level of musical knowledge in all of us, just waiting to be tapped? Or is the pentatonic scale simply so common in Western music that it has become ingrained in all of our minds? Improvisational genius Bobby McFerrin uses audience participation to demonstrate the power of the pentatonic scale—or at least the audience’s familiarity with it.

Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus:

[On this space, wherein a video supposedly lies]

Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? John Schaefer, scientist Daniel Levitin, and musical artist Bobby McFerrin engage in live performances and cross-cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s noteworthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.