Words Come From Your Brain

This is a sloppy rendition of a video that I've had in the works for close to a year, but decided to just make it now and get it done with.

Hope you like it!

Simon Singh presentation where I first saw this trick explained:
http://www.nyas.org/snc/rw/25/presentations/player.html

Michael Shermer video where it was also shown and explained:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypTBLLu18Q
The interesting thing is that Shermer mentions Singh in the video as a close friend, yet he doesn't give him credit for the LZ thing. I'm guessing that either Shermer's presentation came first (I haven't tracked down exact dates for each of the presentations) or they both got it from a common source I'm unfamiliar with. Either way, it's a totally COOL effect!!

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• cousinomacul
• language
• words
• noise
• perception
• reality
• stairwaytoheaven

[princeofleastaction]

First time I heard "fuck" 2nd time "fuck Obama", assumed you were maybe a republican or something worse, 3rd time my brain began to work. For led zep,on first hearing, even though I had been exposed to this previously I heard satan. I wonder if alternative lyrics were printed we would "hear" them?

[CousinoMacul]

My original idea for this video was to come up with alternative (Christian) lyrics to "hear" but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stop hearing the satanic lyrics. Go figure!

[simonboyd123]

I guess youre point is that people hear what they want to here just like people see what they want to see. But what if you couldnt really care less?

[CousinoMacul]

I wouldn't quite put it like that. I would say that people hear what they're expecting to hear just as they see what they're expecting to see. The main difference (I think) is that when input clearly contradicts expectation (as in corroborating some unexpected pattern as opposed to noise), then the brain corrects despite the confusion. But patterns will be found in noise if the expectations are strong enough--and they will be real.

[rozeboosje]

Hm... Not sure what's going on but I've unsubbed and re-subbed just to make sure.

[CousinoMacul]

Make sure to watch my "Three Little Pigs" video. ;-)

[hammerfyll]

@Luburium And you can't use grammar properly.

[ChickenRamen]

So words are really just noise... a pattern of noise...hm. That actually makes sense when you think about it.. Different languages are just different sets of noise.

[princeofleastaction]

Probably a job for someone with too much time on their hands.

[Luburium]

Your bald

[585Potato]

SATAN EATS CHEEZ WHIZ!!!!!!!!

[DBZkamek]

i hear you WTF...

my mind wants me to say Wtf?

then job complete

[frankjohnson123]

Possibly because you were putting extra emphasis on your mouthing in the clip.

[mamdk]

I heard the word tits alot :P