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I believe what I see?
Gone again Started conversation Sep 26, 2002
Although this link is about lying, and whether we can tell when people are doing it, it ends with a couple of stories about perception, and how perceptive we aren't! 
Interesting.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020923/020923-6.html
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I believe what I see?
Gone again Posted Sep 26, 2002
You lost me. 
What's a SEP field?
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GTBacchus Posted Sep 26, 2002
Sorry, I shouldn't assume...
An SEP field is a Somebody Else's Problem field. It was described by Douglas Adams in "Life, The Universe and Everything":
(Moderator - Mr Adams said we could quote his books here)
"The Somebody Else's Problem field relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting or can't explain."
He says a bit more about it, but nothing quite succinct enough to just quote here...
I believe what I see?
Gone again Posted Sep 26, 2002
Sometimes it frightens me how visionaries like DNA make up stuff outrageous enough to become real! 
That's why I posted that quote from Dr Woods (some other thread here in the FFFF-zone), as I believe he was quite correct to note that god has a sense of humour, therefore he must exist. 
I'm sure DNA's reasoning would (or did) run along similar lines. 
RL - the most fictitious of all environments.
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Gone again Posted Sep 30, 2002
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Apart from the fact that he was a dedicated atheist, that is....
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