1. Welcome!

7. Day #1 God, I have one minute left to live!

8. HMS GLOUCESTER WHERE ARE WE?

9. HMS Gloucester (British Type 42 Destroyer) 1991 Gulf War

10. What’s on the sky? American A-6 Intruder Bomber Silkworm missile (wings are folded in image) They surely look different in a radar, right?

11. Timeline, 5secs 5 secs later: “ I have 1 minute left to live ” radar event around 5:00AM

12. Timeline, 45secs 5 secs later: “ I have 1 minute left to live ” 40secs information gathering Firing of counter-missiles radar event around 5:00AM

13. Timeline, 1:30secs 5 secs later: “ I have 1 minute left to live ” radar event around 5AM 40secs information gathering Firing of counter-missiles Counter-missiles destroy object “ Whose Bird was that?” “ it was ours, sir”

14. Timeline, 4:01:30secs 5 secs recognition: “ I have 1 minute left to live ” radar event 40secs information gathering Firing of counter-missiles Counter-missiles destroy object “ Whose Bird was that?” “ it was ours, sir” 4 Hours of analysis, trying to find out whether a friend was shot down

15. Timeline, 4:01:30secs 5 secs recognition: “ I have 1 minute left to live ” radar event 40secs information gathering Firing of counter-missiles Counter-missiles destroy object “ Whose Bird was that?” “ it was ours, sir” 4 Hours of analysis, trying to find out whether a friend was shot down 45 seconds This is what interests us: the button-pressing; the decision-making, the intuition behind it, the thoughts, and the thoughts we never saw.

16. Mystery #1 How did the officer know in 5 seconds that it was a hostile missile? Be the mind!

20. Mystery #1 How did the officer know in 5 seconds that it was a hostile missile? Be the mind!

22. Was he a Jedi Master?

23. Was Allah interfering for the side of the infidel? Infidel !!!

43. Jedi Conclusion Most of our learning is unconscious, impulsive, and automatic. You must trust the force!

44. Part II: Priming

47. Automatic effects on: Behavior (Dijksterhuis & Van Knippenberg, 1998) percent correct percent correct

51. White vs Black p.77

55. Jedi Conclusion A concept will prime related concepts, and these primed, active, concepts, will guide subsequent behavior

56. PART III: on the truth

60. Split brain experiment, (ii) The LEFT hemisphere has language capabilities. In subjects with lesions separating the hemispheres, it is possible to present them requests to the RIGHT hemisphere, which the left hemisphere has no way of obtaining the information. After the subjects executed the requests, they were asked why they were doing what they were doing. What was their response?

61. Mystery #2 What do split-brain patients respond, since they have no way of knowing the answers? Be the mind!

62. Jedi conclusion Humans will easily, automatically, unconsciously discard inconsistencies, lack of information, and contradictions, so as not to feel bad about themselves

65. Working Group Task #1

66. Simulating the problem

67. Mystery #3 Why can’t we feel that we should switch doors? Be the mind!

70. Mystery #4 Why do we have blind driving? Be the mind!

71. Mystery #5 Can there be a scientific explanation for the “life flashing through the eyes”phenomenon ? Be the mind!