His trip ended in disaster but my youthful mind filtered out that bruising outcome.
The mind filters out the overwhelming majority of chemical aromas that surround us, focusing intently on some, ignoring others.
Whenever I start cooking, or I read a recipe, my mind filters out complicated processes and what I think are unnecessary steps.
The talk is extraordinary for the clarity (and humor) with which he repeatedly illustrates the powerful ways in which the mind filters and shapes what we call information.
If you don't mind filtering out a bit of poorly drawn anime and a few suggestively posed video game characters, it's not hard to find some really impressive stuff; at least half of my system's wallpapers are from deviantART.
So when sitting one night, discussing the impending Holidays, the well versed question came up... "Is there anything in particular you'd like for Christmas?" My mind filtered through the usual stocking fillers, Pinterest obsessions, perfumes, clothes, gadgetry, but fell short of any real wanting or perceived satisfaction.
Founded by a Yemeni press-freedom sparkplug, Rahma Hugaira, the office was bustling with girls, whose hunger to speak their minds filtered right through the black robes that covered all but their eyes.
They highlight his distrust of conventional habits of organizing the world; habits of mind that filter out the unpredictable, the incongruous and the ordinary and so deaden our responsiveness to the empirical and the flux of reality.
We get surreal visions of shifting landscapes and mutating forms, where architecture becomes a state of mind, a filter through which to view the world just as you would through, say, music.
With the same goal in mind, we filtered the parasites over a 12 µm pore size filter instead of the regular 3 µm pore filter.
