What is Perception? Archives - Self-Transcendence

What are the Placebo and Nocebo Effects?

The placebo effect has a long history, and has real power over an individuals mental and physical health compared with medication, and the nocebo effect is its harmful “negative twin.

By Barra, 15 hours20 December 2025 ago

and Coping Work?

Learning difficulties and neurodiversity

This is the site megapage for learning difficulties and neurodiversity. It introduces the subject and provides links to pages delving deeper.

By Barra, 2 days18 December 2025 ago

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What is Cognitive Bias?

Cognitive bias is the mind’s built‑in tendency to think in certain predictable, skewed ways instead of purely logically.

By Barra, 1 week ago

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What is Perceptual Bias?

Perceptual bias is the mind’s habit of seeing things in a tilted way instead of seeing them completely accurately.

By Barra, 1 week ago

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What is Perception Filtering?

Perception filtering is the mind’s way of sorting and reducing the huge amount of information coming in through the senses so a person is not overloaded.

By Barra, 1 week ago

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What are Human Senses?

What is Perception?

Perception is the mind’s way of taking in information through the senses and turning it into an understandable picture of “what’s going on.”

By Barra, 1 week ago

Does Making Make Meaning?

Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between

By Barra, 2 weeks8 December 2025 ago