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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Fish on October 02, 2004, 03:20:48 pm
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Don\'t delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn\'t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the only iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
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ncie fnid but .....
i saw tihs 2 years ago
Wrod ! :D
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The human mind is an incredible thing. I also saw this a long time ago, but it still fascinates me. :)
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yeah, pretty cool ehh?? :D
*hugs his brain*
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Yep, fascinating indeed... almost as fascinating as the fact that you can read letter \"A\" just by looking at it and not by dragging your sight after each line :D
Seriously tho\', I think it\'s cool, but not really fascinating... it\'s minor to the fact that well trained person can read whole page just by looking at it.
Not to mention what mind can together with body, even without bigger training... just by belief or special state of awareness.
Also I don\'t think this spelling discovery shows power of human mind... rather it is yet another example of how easy it is to fool it: \"Give it a hint and a heap of letters... the dummy will use subconsciousness to save its own resources, and as a result consider it an actual word\" :P
- Swords
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Amazing maybe we should all start typing like that ^^ or not. Still pretty cool.
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Ah the human mind. Its really cool what the mind can do. I, for xample, have crazy super relfexes when I dont think about doing whatever I do. I could name hmmmmm. ah forget it
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With our brain and eyes we can also read as fast as 1000 words per minute (and more) :D The world record seems to be around 3850 wpm.
And even with the mess you wrote it still is easy to fly over the lines as if it was normal text.
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Originally posted by Pegasus
With our brain and eyes we can also read as fast as 1000 words per minute (and more) :D The world record seems to be around 3850 wpm.
And even with the mess you wrote it still is easy to fly over the lines as if it was normal text.
oO 3850!!! i read really slowly. i dont think i can do 1000 in one minute. but then again, i underestimate myselft sometimes^^
i too have seen that before, and i still think it cool
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There are sentences with all the words properly spelled, with no grammar mistakes and still the average reader can not comprehend them.
It\'s called poetry, sometimes.
Or the notes my girfriend leaves me.
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Originally posted by Tulfutzian
Or the notes my girfriend leaves me.
Nobody can read those things... :D
Yeah, I saw that before too.
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i think some people could say that for shakespear as well
dont think iv seen that sort of thing before, but my long term memory sucks so maybe i did
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Hlelo ervenoye can you atcaluly cpnreoehmd tihs?
\"hello everyone can you actually comprehend this?\"
i had a bit of truoble with the word \"comprehend\" dunno about you
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Heh, WiseKran, didnt notice you had moved the letters around on that first sentance. I just read it and then i waited for an image to load on that empty space. Then i read the same thing again below and had to re-read the first part to see it. :D
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Originally posted by Sinon
I just read it and then i waited for an image to load on that empty space. Then i read the same thing again below and had to re-read the first part to see it. :D
Now, what were you people saying about the power of the human mind? :D
Edit: oh, and you know what else is prety cool, you can looks at a poop load of different simbols, and automaticaly see the smileys that they represent.
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Originally posted by Fish
.. Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,..
When I read this for like 2 years ago or something ,it were some univieristy in USA in like Texas or something that had done that \"research\"
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Originally posted by RussianVodka
Edit: oh, and you know what else is prety cool, you can looks at a poop load of different simbols, and automaticaly see the smileys that they represent.
No you can\'t. You learn them. I havn\'t come across a single person who, having never used a computer or mobile phone before, can automatically see or understand smileys.
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Us Planeshifters have known about this for a long time. It\'s called \"seperot theory\". Without it, nobody would be able to understand his posts.
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i am......... the lab rat
bow before me :P
*stabs joeyguy in the face (C) Seperot 2003-2004 and walks off*
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Originally posted by Androgos
Originally posted by Fish
.. Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,..
When I read this for like 2 years ago or something ,it were some univieristy in USA in like Texas or something that had done that \"research\"
Yeah well, you wait long enough and everything invented in other countries will have been invented in USA first :)
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Originally posted by Moogie
The human mind is an incredible thing. I also saw this a long time ago, but it still fascinates me. :)
Absolutely. It\'s amazing that the lovable grey clumpy mass in our skulls has 100 billion neurons, and about 30 times that amount in glial cells. Each neuron can send multiple signals and act as a parallel computer. Kind of like a transistor on steroids. Now they say that glial cells also contribute to the 10^15 to 10^17 operations per sec our brains pump out.
As for that hamster pic - it totally owns my post.
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Originally posted by Draklar
Yep, fascinating indeed... almost as fascinating as the fact that you can read letter \"A\" just by looking at it and not by dragging your sight after each line :D
Seriously tho\', I think it\'s cool, but not really fascinating... it\'s minor to the fact that well trained person can read whole page just by looking at it.
Not to mention what mind can together with body, even without bigger training... just by belief or special state of awareness.
Also I don\'t think this spelling discovery shows power of human mind... rather it is yet another example of how easy it is to fool it: \"Give it a hint and a heap of letters... the dummy will use subconsciousness to save its own resources, and as a result consider it an actual word\" :P
This is because the brain is made for image processing, not for text processing, which doesn\'t surprise, as there is a great shortage of text in nature. :D
Anyway, by processing text as image, the brain must allow for great variations and also compensate for missing parts, in order to recognise the meaning appropriately and with some reliability.
Also, this is why icons and graphical UIs are easier to get used to than text: it doesn\'t have to be learned and to eb converted. While you can instantly recognise an image, you can\'t read text as easily, even if it\'s only one single word.
It\'s not actually saving resources, it is more acting as usual. That, BTW, is why proof-reading is so hard, since you\'ll miss spelling mistakes if you don\'t concentrate really hard.
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Brain research scares me... Reality scares me...