Comments for "Poke A Hole In The Sky With Your Brain :)" Video at VideoSift.com

By laura

laura (http://laura.videosift.com) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:21:20 -0800

*requeue

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:21:21 -0800

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Saturday, December 29th, 2007 6:06pm PST - requeue requested by submitter laura.

By Thylan

Thylan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Thylan) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:56:20 -0800

Upvote for Kate Bush

By laura

laura (http://laura.videosift.com) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:53:02 -0800

This is a fun one, people...gonna *requeue again!!!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:53:02 -0800

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 11:21am PST - requeue requested by submitter laura.

By Abducted

Abducted (http://www.videosift.com/member/Abducted) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:52:24 -0800

Haha I was expecting him to turn into a hulk like some of the viral videos of today.. A kind of home science experiment gone wrong advert for a new Ratchet and Clank game.

When they told you to watch the cloud I was afraid it was a scare video.

Only thing you are gonna do by stimulating your amygdala is get angry or scared of the clouds!

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:51:19 -0800

mmmmm, toooouch my amygdala!!!

By E_Nygma

E_Nygma (http://www.videosift.com/member/E_Nygma) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:01:51 -0800

the amygdala as a switch? like literal switch? c'mon...

By finch451

finch451 (http://www.videosift.com/member/finch451) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:18:30 -0800

I wish we could control more of our brains, but we'd probably go insane.

By arsenault185

arsenault185 (http://arsenault185.videosift.com) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:22:28 -0800

I'm not sure what to make of this. There seem to be no decent resources on this "phenomena", so i dont know if i think its a crack pot theory or a viral.

By snoozedoctor

snoozedoctor (http://www.videosift.com/member/snoozedoctor) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:26:15 -0800

Thanks. I didn't want to rain on anyone's amygdala. The human mind is wondrous. It can influence the masses, stirring them to great good, or great evil. However, there is not a shred of sound scientific evidence that the mind can influence inorganic matter, of any kind, that it's not directly wired to. I guess it would be POSSIBLE that a human brain could be made to operate systems without direct connection, but it would only be through remote sensing of regional brain blood flow or neural activity. (I'm eliminating detection of eye movement here.) Regardless, it would require powered sensors to complete the circuit.

By sineral

sineral (http://www.videosift.com/member/sineral) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:14:59 -0800

I don't think this should be in nature, geek, or howto, because if the video was meant to be taken seriously then it is a bunch of crap. His talk of "projecting" brain "energy" onto the universe is typical mystical new age woo nonsense. This is just a special case of the fallacious idea that wishing for something hard enough will make it so. On his website he explicitly claims human brains have "psychic and telekinetic powers". This is bunk, it fits better in the EIA channel.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:07:03 -0800

Boring and bunk. Show me the droppings of a cloudbuster, and I might believe it!

By bigbikeman

bigbikeman (http://www.videosift.com/member/bigbikeman) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:39:40 -0800

Heh. My "theory", right after I lay down my crack pipe: this dipshit filmed himself attempting to bust 100 clouds and he finally beat statistical probability on this one. Maybe? Do you think? Possibly? Really!!!!

Nah, he's actually moving water vapour with his mind, because that's a useful skill for humans to have. Evolution or no.

Lovely. Why isn't this flagged comedy?

By Trancecoach

Trancecoach (http://www.videosift.com/member/Trancecoach) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:04:59 -0800

Great, now fix Global Warming.

By Ryjkyj

Ryjkyj (http://www.videosift.com/member/Ryjkyj) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:06:01 -0700

How exactly do you "vaporize" a cloud? Isn't that kind of redundant?

By kulpims

kulpims (http://www.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:54:51 -0700

you're all thinking in terms of rational explanations. what if there is none and the thing still works? if particle entaglement experiments have shown us anything it's that not only is all matter just energy but that everything in the universe is interconnected. the point is, we don't know shit yet. the behaviour of particles at quantum level shows bizzare results we are unable to backup properly with our newtonian ways. as we discovered that observation inevitably affects the results of experiments we were no longer just voayers looking from the outside into this newtonian rube-goldberg apparatus we call universe - we are the apparatus. our current description of reality is a sketch at best. i like the work David Bohm did with Karl Pribram on holonomic model of the brain and his ideas of the role consciencesness has in this universe. another wacko i like is David Deutsch and his four-strand theory of everything.
a quote from wiki about his theory:

"It aims not at the reduction of everything to particle physics, but rather mutual support among multiverse, computational, epistemological, and evolutionary principles."

which reminded me of another fine post here on the sift, a Wired editor Kevin Kelly's TED talk about remarkable similarities between the evolution of biology and technology.

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://my15minutes.videosift.com) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:44:23 -0700

^ if i concentrate hard enough?

i can create a cloud, right here in my apartment...