What Criteria are Used by the Brain to Select Perception? – Susana Martinez-Conde

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Susana Martinez-Conde explains the basis for the brain’s attraction to perceptions of movement and change.

Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde is the Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. She has published articles in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and writes the “Illusions” column for Scientific American: MIND. She is a member of the Magic Castle in Hollywood and the Magic Circle in London, author of the international bestselling book Sleights of Mind, and producer of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Dr. Martinez-Conde is among the premier science communicators in the United States.

This video is an excerpt from SAND Anthology Vol. 5

Winter

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We can sense that this openness, this unconditional love is the deepest truth of our being

#111 When Truth Becomes the Enemy

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Examining the vital role of journalists and documentarians in Palestinian conflict zones.

Ultimate Truth & Our Purpose on Earth

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Tiokasin ruminates on the indigenous view of consciousness and our connection as Earth herself.

The well of grief

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Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief,

Nondual Vedic Intimacy

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We humans often feel strangely alone even in intimate relationships, if not all the time, often enough

Meditative Musings of a Medical Student

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As long as the Earth rotates, to bless us with night and day, the wheel of samsara continues to spin

#34 Conversations on Complexity (Encore)

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A discussion of Neil's new book "Notes on Complexity"

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

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This video, filmed on location at the Onondaga Nation School in Onondaga Nation, focuses on the purpose and uses of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address.

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