Generative Reality
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Cognitive anthropologist, writing about the intersection of technology and mental imagery.
Joined July 2021
Brain-Computer Interfaces will allow humans to perceive mental imagery with vividness and control that has never before been achieved. BCI's will literally supercharge your daydreams. #BCI #NeuroTech
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What if you could close your eyes, and imagine a world in your mind that seemed just as real as this one? Imagine seeing the images in your…
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The potential of mental imagery for psychotherapeutic interventions is immense, and is exactly what Generative Reality seeks to bring to the surface.
The Action Cycle Theory of Perception and Mental Imagery https://t.co/ldSkSkOWqH
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#Synaesthesia has in other studies turned out to be common in people who experience #hyperphantasia, so the outcome of studies such as these has profound implications on the coming integration of mental imagery and technology.
Are You a Synaesthete? Participate in Our Online Study on Multimodal Mental Imagery in Music Listening!
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Yet another important study showing how our internal and external perceptions are so much more linked than commonly and intuitively believed 👀🧠
Where in the brain do internally generated and externally presented visual information interact? https://t.co/H0ESwLFwCX Mental "imagery content representations in the left lateral occipitotemporal cortex were disrupted when a visual distractor was presented during imagery"
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There is something even more revolutionary waiting for us on the other side of VR #virtualreality #VR
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One day, in a distant time or perhaps closer than you think, many of us, and perhaps even yourself, will choose to live in vast virtual…
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One day we might all be able to experience what having an ultra-vivid imagination is like. #hyperphantasia
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Imagine creating a whole world inside your mind, and that it feels just as real to you as the one you see every day. The only difference…
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How can one make neuroscientists see, that implants are not going to restore vision for the blind to the level that sensory substitution can, if only mental imagery can be guided and controlled; forget electrodes!
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Mental imagery and technology is about to converge.
New Research: Statistically significant features improve binary and multiple Motor Imagery task predictions from EEGs: In recent studies, in the field of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), researchers have focused on Motor Imagery tasks. Motor… #Neuroscience
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Generative Reality is just around the corner:)
New Research: Editorial: Affective brain-computer interface in emotion artificial intelligence and medical engineering #Computational #Neuroscience
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The newest article is a deep dive into mental imagery, and how technology will increasingly interact with it in the future. Follow on Twitter and Medium, to get the latest on the interaction of technology and imagination. [8/8] https://t.co/ZJy1Fnfbwt
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Read writing from Generative Reality on Medium. Cognitive anthropologist, writing about Generative Reality and its potential to revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.
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Welcome to Generative Reality, where mental imagery and technology intertwine. As this starts to happen over the coming years, we will be here to discuss what GR is, and how this is going to affect ourselves and our societies. [7/8]
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Now, imagine if you can, a technology which could increase the vividness of your inner world to equal or surpass that of the external world. To a level where you are able to generate entire worlds within the confines of your own mind, in a way which feels entirely real. [6/8]
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Most people fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum. They are able to generate mental imagery, but it lacks the vividness and depth of external reality. They can imagine a sunset, but the image is fuzzy, and lacks the crispness of reality. [5/8]
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On the other end of the spectrum, people experience what is known as #aphantasia, living completely without mental imagery. They can think about a sunset, but they can't see it in their mind’s eye. [4/8]
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Some people experience what is known as #hyperphantasia, and are capable of conjuring up vibrant mental images that seem almost as real as the world around them. [3/8]
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What you just did was to use your mind’s eye to generate mental imagery. The range of this ability is vast and varies greatly between individuals. [2/8]
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Imagine something in your mind. It could be anything at all: an apple 🍎, a moving car 🚗, or yourself looking out across a beautiful landscape 🏞️. Do your best to make it as vivid and realistic as possible. [1/8] https://t.co/pi45jTmZfe
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With eyes closed, see an apple in your mind, surrounded by a black vacuum. Make the image as vivid as possible. Observe the vibrancy of the…
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For the #X-eyed believers
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