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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:27:26 -0500
- From: Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Subliminal Messages
- In-Reply-To: <crystal.726438666@glia>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.programmer: 7-Jan-93 Re: Subliminal
- Messages Crystal@glia.biostr.wash (2775)
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- > The ads weren't "sub" "liminal" messages. They can be perceived if you
- > look for them. Sub-liminal means "below the threshold of perception". If you
- > can perceive it, it's not subliminal, and if it's subliminal it can't be
- > perceived so it can't POSSIBLY work.
-
- This isn't quite true, there are stimuli that, although below whatever
- threshold there is which determines whether it should be consciously
- percieved, do fire neurons in the sensors, and produce excitation in the
- sensory cortex.
-
- In fact, there is a considerable body of experimental evidence showing
- effects of non conscious processing of low level stimuli.
- (And if it hadn't been 8 years since I finished my Psych degree, I'd
- remember some of the researcher's names, but...)
-
- This, of course, says nothing in particular about whether attempts at
- subliminal coercion work. As I remember, they don't, or at least not to
- any extent worth having.
-
- Putting musk at unnoticeable concentrations on clothing does help to
- sell it though, so caution might be advised (perhaps this marketing ploy
- could be tried on Amigas (yech)).
-
-