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Monks See Through Optical Illusion Games

Posted by timothy on from the use-your-illusion dept.

FhnuZoag writes "Nature is reporting that Buddhist monks, highly trained in meditation, were better able to maintain focus in a set of computer generated illusions designed to confuse the brain. The particular illusions involved showing different images to each eye, and maintaining a state of motion-induced blindness. This may be scientific proof of the efficacy of meditative study. The full, original article may be downloaded here. (500 KB PDF)"

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  1. This is priceless... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA:

    Alternatively, we can increase the duration of the disappearance by disrupting teh activity of the Right hemsiphere with precisely time pulses (the Right hemisphere seems to be much more picky about the prcise timing of teh TMS pulse thanthe Left, perhasp associated with the large blocks of time that the Left deals in ).

    What the hell? Who wrote this article, Jeff K.?

    d00d, this iz teh ghey.
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  2. Zen is denial? by bsdbigot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Student: Why are the bars horizontal on the left and vertical on the right?
    Master: One eye sees truth, one eye sees falsehood.
    Student: Which eye is correct?
    Master: Neither.

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  3. How do they know what the monks saw? by Momoru · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the monks were just lying, dirty lying monks.