The Future of Making Sense of the World

Hug shirts, smellphones, virtual tastes, bionic eyes and hearing aids doing translations – just a few keywords showing how technology will take human perception to a higher level in the future. Innovative healthcare solutions will go way beyond improving our senses when we experience problems, they will augment our capabilities and open new horizons for humanity. Let’s jump into the pool of details. How humans perceive the sensory cacophony called the world Car. Flower. Smartphone. Leaf. Shadow. Ponytail. Red Sweater. Monitor. Water. Coffee. Beeps. Sidney Bechet tunes. Bicycle. Laugh. Light breeze. Holiday memories. Strawberry muffins. Running noses. Candy Crush. Smoked cheese. Sips and sneezes. Our body and brain are bombarded with gazillions of sensations through our eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and skin in every second resulting in a never-ending concert of thoughts and feelings. According to neuroscientists, the brain receives vastly more sensory information per second than it can process, so it has to filter things out and organize the remaining sensations into patterns and categories. This filtering and classifying process is what we call perception. Experts say that it is not a passive, receptive, but an active process of constructing reality, a conversation between the senses and the cortex that balances new information from the outside world with predictions from the interior world of our brain. In spite of its complexity, not much thought is given to the proc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Biotechnology Cyborgization Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients body augmentation future Healthcare hearing human human perception Medicine sense sensing smell taste touch vision Source Type: blogs