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Originally posted by seto:
I've been trying to get this program to work for a while now, I keep putting it off. But now I am back again, hopefully I will get somewhere this time.But I've had a question I've been dying to ask for a long time now.
When entering "photo focus" the text on the page becomes blurry. How can my mind process what it cannot see?
How do you step out of your mind and decide it doesn't understand something just because it presented it to your conscious mind as blurred? How do you know the other than conscious mind hasn't gone... Well you know now is not a good time to waste with this as per your instructions it will be handled by the other than conscious mind.
The fact is that focus is nothing more than that mental focus on what aspect of your world is right in front of your face that you are going to have a conscious awareness off. You throw your awareness at what you want to see but the mind is still seeing. I came across some interesting research that explains some recent discovery of eye processing. And led to some interesting theory. Which I feel would make this post way too long winded.
The short of it is. The same eyes are looking at the book all that you have done is tell your brain that you want the boader view. Unlike a camera. The eye is able to record everything faithfully with clarity however the conscious mind can only accomodate the 5 to 9 bits of information at once so that you're not distracted by what the mind consciders at this time unimportant it remains blurred. The momen it becomes important if comes into sheer sharp focus. So while photoreading we are asking the other than conscious mind to process the information in the book in much the same way as it processes the rest of the world around us and in keeping with the conscious mind aggreement, what is not important to the conscious mind right now is blurred.
In much the same way our memory plays back an accident scene in clear sharp focus and yet we only witness the accident out of the corner of the eye and it usually happens to fast to even notice that our focus hasn't changed that part was still blurred till we turned our head.
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I have heard from other online sources argue about this point, that this whole PR system relies only on the "skimming" of text, or "activation" and that the "photo focus" part is merely useless.
Yes there are those who say that. Like in the aesop fable. The fox saw some grapes high in the bush and wanted to taste the grapes, He jumped and jumped and jumped once more and thought this is too much work I'm not jumping myself to exhaustion they are probably sour grapes anyway and walks away. Human nature of today remains largely unchanged.
There is heaps of research available that provides evidence of the minds ablility at implicit learning that supports that photoreading work's, unfortunately many prefer to believe that unless you can absolutely prove it to them then it must be sour grapes.
Consider this, letters are merely symbols that represent sounds we make. Where is the evidence that the mind is capable of decipering these in the first place? And if the mind can decipher symbols and is capable of infromation processing at incredible speeds, (afterall it doesn't take days to notice that you've just sat down on a pin). Why must we limit the speed at which we can absorb and intepret the information that is only symbolism anyway (what we call reading)?
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited October 26, 2003).]
