Technology sneaks everywhere and allows us to do the wildest things. I have recently found out that you can create subliminal messages! All you have to do is to download the free software and begin that will brainwash yourself or your boyfriend into buying you flowers :-) by flashing "text messages, pictures, or both in the center of the display, on top of everything."
I wonder how long does it take before anyone gets an idea to make a virus out of it. If you read Gladwell's Blink, you know how powerful unconscious mind is. Scary, especially that "scientists at the University College London (UCL) have found the first physiological evidence that invisible subliminal images do attract the brain’s attention on a subconscious level. The findings challenge previous scientific assumptions that consciousness and attention go hand-in-hand. What’s interesting here is that your brain does log things that you aren’t even aware of and can’t ever become aware of,” Bahador Bahrami from the UCL said. “We show that there is a brain response in the primary visual cortex to subliminal images that attract our attention without us having the impression of having seen anything." (From Subliminal messages ‘impact on brain’)
Tags: subliminal, neuroscience
