our capacity to use hiden channel of information to get data on other people is surprising.
any actor know that if you don't feel what you say, spectators can see it instantly. more surprising it have been show that humans can detect som mental states characteristics throug the walking move. In fact humans can detect if the walking human is male/female, dominant/dominated personality, the mood, just with the move of the ankle and foot. they tested that with motion capture transforming a real human move into few point, and found out that reducing up to the foot only was enough to get the data. the TV serie, lie to me is based on similar research on face move detection, even if there is exaggeration. As I said before it won't surprise an actor, who know that you have to feel your character and the situation when you play. Liars do that naturally, and microexpression detection is just a way to detect failures in that fraud about feelings (liars modify their mental state like actors, it is not just statement but acting). more surprising any driver, especially urban bicyclist like me know how to detect intention of drivers, even without signaling lights, and at least the unclear intentions that might be dangerous. When our survival depend on detecting others intent and mood, we use all fuzy data we can. Not surprising that it work, if you look how some fraud detectors work in finance and banking. to fall back to cold fusion, i notice that many of those competence are inhibited by believers and denialists around LENR. Some people restrict their intelligence to conscious and clear messages, or filter out them with a huge bias, to avoid seeing the facts (most also often use sophism to help if needed). Only people who will potentially invest much wealth (money, fame, credibility) in something, but did not yet invest it, can be openmind enough to use all data to take the good decision... very transient situation, since soon after having decided to commit or reject, they will be biased to justify their decision, and thus unable to see inconvenient facts (see Roland Benabou Groupthink/Denial theory). people who just talk are not motivated enough to analyze well. people who have invested already, are no more balanced and protect their mental comfort. I'm not an exception. That is a problem. See the people who jump into LENR as evidence that it is convincing. Warned of my usual bias, I observe that there are enough of such jump to trust LENR and industrial LENR+ to be convincing. More convincing than calorimetry papers for me. 2012/12/13 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > > The point I have been trying to make, is that no telepathy is required >> for this, >> just sharp eyes and a sense of self preservation. >> > Probably. But you never know with birds. They can sense magnetism, for > example, which they use to migrate. Who knows what else they can sense. > > It is not inconceivable they use some sort of RF signaling. > > - Jed > >
