Think humans are really adept and competent? This will shatter it. It's like we're all mentally ill from birth. We can't even trust our own thoughts.

Cognitive bias map. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Terracollage, Nature timelapses and ASMR slime videos

Went down the rabbit hole triggered by this toot by @metapsyche.

• created by Roman De Giuli/Terracollage
• link to the original SATELLIKE video on Vimeo
• many other creations like this to be found at his Vimeo page

Roman De Giuli is a German photographer and filmmaker, specialized in practical effects and experimental fluid art. His compositions mainly consist of fluids, powders and colours which are applied on paper to create vivid, three dimensional scenes. High resolution stills and 8K videos are captured with macro lenses to cover tiny areas in enormous reproduction scales. Roman does extensive studies of organic patterns, their behaviour and movement. With the help of music and sound design, he transforms the abstract narrative potential of his hand made visuals to experimental montages with a cinematic character.

These are truly beautiful creations. Captivating to watch. Indeed, it very much resembles timelapses of satellite overpasses/captures of evolutions of regions of out planet Earth. #aesthetics #art #beauty

Now, what came to my mind while watching this was that even though I know this is not real, it still has the same effect on me as if it were real. Which probably says that it’s the motion, the colours and the music which invokes that emotion, not so much what it is. There is something meditative about watching this. #asmr #meditation

That was the romantic part. The other thought which popped up quickly was realisation that this mesmerizing feeling, that urge to watch more of this stuff is probably the very same emotion today’s children and youngsters have watching ASMR Slime videos which are so popular among youth on Youtube. A parent observing their child watching this weird stuff again and again looks in disbelief and thinks what the heck is going on here?

Well, I think this Terracollage videos are an equivalent of those odd ASMR effect videos. Probably kids watching adults looking at Nature timelapses wonder the same way about how odd the older generation is.

"Which came first, sleep or the brain? Researchers find that, despite lacking a brain, Hydra exhibit characteristics at a molecular and genetic level associated with sleep in animals with central nervous systems." So what they did here was use hydra, which are small, fresh-water organisms related to jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. They are so simple, they have only 2 layers of cells and no brain. The researchers experimented with neurotransmitters on them. https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/196