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18th July 2009, 2:30am
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#31 | | Harvey Kartel
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Confirmation bias sums it up pretty nicely. People who think that deja vu is mystical or psychic etc do so because they want to believe in such things.
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Originally Posted by Ethel Small Fuckin hilarious (I did psychology too yet I don't feel the need to be a wank with it). | Yeah Keir, stop being a wank with your psychology! Let a brutha have a some faith (a faith a faith)
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18th July 2009, 2:32am
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#32 | | Experimental stooge
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Originally Posted by Dec  Yeah Keir, stop being a wank with your psychology! Let a brutha have a some faith (a faith a faith) |
Yeah I really should reign that in. I mean won't someone think of the children?
(If my jobs taught me anything it's that several people do and it's often very unpleasent) | 
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18th July 2009, 2:36am
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#33 | | Harvey Kartel
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Thought police.
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18th July 2009, 9:51pm
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#34 | | Slayer wannabe
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Originally Posted by Dec Confirmation bias sums it up pretty nicely. People who think that deja vu is mystical or psychic etc do so because they want to believe in such things.
| Well I believe in that because I experienced it (cause and effect) did you read my post? I didn't say I rekon de ja vu is a dream you once had, I said i had a dream, a very long dream, a very long sequence of events and then it happened (I couldn't quantify the unlikelyness of me having a random dream, with a random sequence of events that then happened in the exact same random way a week later). Then I went on to repeat said experience roughly every day for a year (quantifying further unlikelyness = my theory is valid/im crazy)
You're allowed to say I'm crazy but not that I believe my theory coz I believe in fairies and what not...
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18th July 2009, 10:18pm
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#35 | | Cap'n Cherry
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Originally Posted by LesMTS This probably accounts for some cases, but there's definitely a form of deja vu where the experience you are having at that moment is registered to your memory before you're conscious of it, but nobody really knows how or why.
It's a symptom of some forms of epilepsy, which hints at a physiological cause related to the way neurons are communicating with one another rather than just a familiarity with one's surroundings.
The "out of synch eyes" hypothesis isn't really accepted anymore for the simple reason that dejavu isn't a solely visual phenomenon, it applies to your complete sensory experience. And blind people get deja vu too.
In short, it's dead interesting and nobody really knows. | Straight out of New Scientist :-P
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18th July 2009, 10:55pm
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#36 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by bikuki Straight out of New Scientist :-P | The armchair synopsis and vague conclusion? It's not lifted from NS though, if that's the accusation. It's just the small amount I know about the subject.
Also, if I was less polite I'd accuse ethelsmall of a kind of pious fraud, instead I'll just leave this indirect indictment.
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18th July 2009, 10:56pm
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#37 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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19th July 2009, 9:53am
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#38 | | Cap'n Cherry
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Originally Posted by LesMTS The armchair synopsis and vague conclusion? It's not lifted from NS though, if that's the accusation. It's just the small amount I know about the subject.
Also, if I was less polite I'd accuse ethelsmall of a kind of pious fraud, instead I'll just leave this indirect indictment. | It wasn't an accusation in the slightest. I (obviously mistakenly) through that you'd simply read the same article that I did the other week saying pretty much exactly that.
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19th July 2009, 10:00am
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#39 | | Goned
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Originally Posted by Posh What is this even a parody of? It is a parody right?! | I'm surprised this thread has been taken seriously to be honest http://www.altnation.com/forums/spir...6-deja-vu.html  | |
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19th July 2009, 10:02am
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#40 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by bikuki It wasn't an accusation in the slightest. I (obviously mistakenly) through that you'd simply read the same article that I did the other week saying pretty much exactly that. | Nah, I've not read NS for months and months. Is there a copy of the article online? Deja vu and other quirky neurologies are an armchair obsession of mine.
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19th July 2009, 10:17am
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#41 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Originally Posted by Bobzilla I'm surprised this thread has been taken seriously to be honest | In anything, Semp's impression of Campestral was too good. | |
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19th July 2009, 2:42pm
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#42 | | Harvey Kartel
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Originally Posted by Ethel Small Well I believe in that because I experienced it (cause and effect) did you read my post? I didn't say I rekon de ja vu is a dream you once had, I said i had a dream, a very long dream, a very long sequence of events and then it happened (I couldn't quantify the unlikelyness of me having a random dream, with a random sequence of events that then happened in the exact same random way a week later). Then I went on to repeat said experience roughly every day for a year (quantifying further unlikelyness = my theory is valid/im crazy)
You're allowed to say I'm crazy but not that I believe my theory coz I believe in fairies and what not... | You're either batshit insane or you're lying, simple as that.
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19th July 2009, 5:32pm
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#43 | | Cap'n Cherry
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Originally Posted by LesMTS Nah, I've not read NS for months and months. Is there a copy of the article online? Deja vu and other quirky neurologies are an armchair obsession of mine. | I'm not sure. I'm not even sure I'd be able to find the issue in question, as we have stacks of them in the flat!
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19th July 2009, 5:49pm
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#44 | | Experimental stooge
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Originally Posted by Dec You're either batshit insane or you're lying, simple as that. | Or lives a reasonably predictable life. | |
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19th July 2009, 5:59pm
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#45 | | Super Discunt
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Or, is Bill Murray. | |
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