Gestalt Principles of Perception

[job]

Thanks, that manifested what I learned in graphic design at uni. Your voice is good for tutorials, and you speak calmly but still in a way that makes what you say interesting. It's hard to find that balance, because usually when people speak calmly, they sound boring. But you've got good intonation :)

[puritybenson]

Thanks dear, you helped me prepare for my exams

[SuperCameron]

Fantastic, really clarified what I'm learning at uni! Loved the music too.

[hananalhafi]

The background music is distracting in a way I cannot focus☹️

[egoiisticprince]

why background music. why why why why???? Let us focus

[dinanhafizh]

6:24 is there really a white face in there?
I'm sorry but i can't find/see it. Someone help

[UniqueGeekFreak]

I love this piece of music, Philip Glass, "The Truman show" :, )

[priyaranikirtaniya]

Amazing video to understand this theory

[noxoloamanda]

the most useful video I've ever watched in my life ...thanks

[ezhang]

The gestalt picture is amazing, really helpful to remember all principle

[Butterbottom]

Turn off background music. Very distracting.

[ayushimishra]

1st pic from top - closure
2nd pic - proximity
3rd pic- continuity
2nd row 1st pic is example of proximity
2nd row 2nd pic is example of similarity
2nd row 3rd is ground figure example

[spencer]

That there is no self, a logical fact (Google the five aggregates), means there is only one self.

Is it a rabbit or a duck? Neither. It's just ink on paper.

[spencer]

It was all a game. It was all real. I was the doctor and the patient at the same time. I was the detective and the criminal.

You see it's like wave particle duality. It's like the nature of the universe itself. It's not that photons are sometimes waves and sometimes particles, it's that they're always both at the same time. They exist as something that just doesn't exist within our perception, and depending how we treat them, they can be either.

Their might be a good way to regiment that actually. You could design an actual treatment modality around the idea of making the patient their own doctor. One of the reasons I'm so good with drugs and psychopharmocology is because I take a lot of fucking drugs and I know what they feel like. I know what specific receptors feel like.

Long term pharmocotherapy isn't any different from addiction. I've puked my guts out from opiods and I've also claawed my own skin off trying to get antipsychotics out of my blood (alcohol does seem to be a nutrient for my species. It worked for hemmingway. It's probably a like a single codon mutation in TAAR1 that causes dopamine to be released dependent on the conductivity of the cell or some shit). Diabetics also literally will die if they don't get insulin. Methadone withdrawal is more dangerous than heroin withdrawals, and the data is clear that it's more effective and safer to wean people off of heroin, but I'm going off course.

That should be the goal of psychopharmacology. Short term management of symptoms is perfectly acceptable, but it needs to be acute only. The goal of, shall we call intensive psychopharmocology, is to allow a person to experience something they've never experienced before.

A lot of the data surrounding ketamine therapy is tied to something loosely identified as a "mystical experience." I think the data surrounding psilocybin and a psychedelics is tied to the feeling of "connectedness." I personally talk about how the roller coaster of ketamine feels like how I imagine infinity tastes (and I study infinity professuonally)

But like that's your goal with getting someone fucked up. Your goal is that you want somebody to FEEL a specific thing. People talk about set and setting, and I don't think that's right. The role of the shaman (what I think is better described as a drug therapist) would better be suited by spending sessions trying to figure out what a person need to experience/feel.

(Talk therapy should be considered a stand alone skill. I would like to METHODICALY AND SLOWLY WITH EVIDENCE BASED PEER REVIEWED PRACTICES, establish an additional field, which I will call fucked experiential therapy (FET). What specific flavor of fucked up does this person need to experience. (The training process will involve a lot of drug use, so there absolutely needs to be like an ochem or a biochem hurdle to jump over).


But think of it this way. Subjects in school don't have a color, but we all used specific colors for specific courses. English was always green for me. The goal for FET should be "what color does this person need to see?"

(Especially for research before we can implement a practice. Erowid has already done a great job of pointing you all in a good direction. 1st phase is "what colors do these drugs help people see." Phase 1.5 is "what colors are people who suffer unable to see?" I'm positive CBT and DBT researchers already have ideas for that.

Phase 2 is clinical trials. We should probably still try double blinds, but it's gonna be hard. These drugs have very apparent subjective effects. Blinds aren't really gonna work because like, it's easy to tell if something is meth or Xanax.

People who've never used drugs could be used as blinds (fuck em up on something they don't know what it is), but I think robust questionnaires and large sample size are probably the best ways to approach this.

[miledysdatena]

Great explanation! Music is beautiful too :)

[ishk]

excellent video ! especially that GESTALT pic of examples.

[cansukoyuturk]

It seems like a good informative video but the music on the background is so annoying. I felt like watching a cheap telenovela.

[shannonkeegan]

thank you so much helped me to understand gestalt laws a bit better

[dipalyadav]

I was constantly watching you instead of focusing on lecture 😎😎😇

[antho]

Amazing ! I still don’t understand why I have to know this to become an airline pilot, but I do 😅...