Mailing Address CounterPunch PO Box 228 Petrolia, CA 95558 Telephone 1(707) 629-3683 or 1(800) 840-3683. Charismatics and the Word of Faith Movement. On Saturday, March 28, I traveled to Globe, Arizona to attend the 2015 Bible Conference at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. Become a Network Marketing Pro ® Insider, get notified when new videos are published and see the 'The Biggest Recruiting Breakthrough In Network Marketing In 10.Figure 1. Proposed hypothesis for the development of focal muscle sensitivity and possible alteration in muscle texture with a proximal neural cause. You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that the other day” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof. Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new information. But what is the underlying cause? Is there some hidden meaning behind Baader-Meinhof events? → The phenomenon bears some similarity to synchronicity, which is the experience of having a highly meaningful coincidence, such as having someone telephone you while you are thinking about them. Both phenomena invoke a feeling of mild surprise, and cause one to ponder the odds of such an intersection. Both smack of destiny, as though the events were supposed to occur in just that arrangement… as though we’re witnessing yet another domino tip over in a chain of dominoes beyond our reckoning. Despite science’s cries that a world as complex as ours invites frequent coincidences, observation tells us that such an explanation is inadequate. Observation shows us that Baader-Meinhof strikes with blurring accuracy, and too frequently to be explained away so easily. But over the centuries, observation has also shown us that observation itself is highly flawed, and not to be trusted. The reason for this is our brains’ prejudice towards patterns. Our brains are fantastic pattern recognition engines, a characteristic which is highly useful for learning, but it does cause the brain to lend excessive importance to unremarkable events. Considering how many words, names, and ideas a person is exposed to in any given day, it is unsurprising that we sometimes encounter the same information again within a short time. When that occasional intersection occurs, the brain promotes the information because the two instances make up the beginnings of a sequence. What we fail to notice is the hundreds or thousands of pieces of information which aren’t repeated, because they do not conform to an interesting pattern. This tendency to ignore the “uninteresting” data is an example of selective attention. In point of fact, coincidences themselves are usually just an artifact of perception. We humans tend to underestimate the probability of coinciding events, so our expectations are at odds with reality. And non-coincidental events do not grab our attention with anywhere near the same intensity, because coincidences are patterns, and the brain actually stimulates us for successfully detecting patterns, hence their inflated value. In short, patterns are habit-forming. But when we hear a word or name which we just learned the previous day, it often feels like more than a mere coincidence. This is because Baader-Meinhof is amplified by the recency effect, a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we encounter it again in the near future. How the phenomenon came to be known as “Baader-Meinhof” is uncertain. It seems likely that some individual learned of the existence of the historic German urban guerrilla group which went by that name, and then heard the name again soon afterwards. This plucky wordsmith may then have named the phenomenon after the very subject which triggered it. But it is certainly a mouthful; a shorter name might have more hope of penetrating the lexicon. However it came to be known by such a name, it is clear that Baader-Meinhof is yet another charming fantasy whose magic is diluted by stick-in-the-mud science and its sinister cohort: facts. But if you’ve never heard of the phenomenon before, be sure to watch for it in the next few days… brain stimulation is nice. Update: Independent reports indicate that the name “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” was coined on a discussion thread on the St. Paul Pioneer Press in ~1995. Participants were discussing the sensation, and decrying the lack of a term for it, so someone asserted naming rights and called it “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon” presumably based on their own experience hearing that moniker twice in close temporal proximity. The more scientifically accepted name nowadays is “frequency illusion,” but Stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky didn’t coin that term until 2006, over a decade after “Baader-Meinhof” was coined, and around the same time this article was originally written. So both terms are arguably valid. Written by Alan Bellows, copyright © 19 March 2006. Alan is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting. If you wish to use the text of this work in any way, you must gain permission . That’s strange, I was just thinking about every single word, phrase, idea, opinion and concept on this page … I think it’s all a coincidence, and I think that this is mostly just people’s overactive imagination looking for something paranormal to explain whatever they are unable to explain logically. If you add another unknown phenomenon then you invite speculation, and that in turn invites assumption. A few turns of this and you have people starting “the church of the holy lampost-of-tunafish-and-gravy-ballons” because they are insane. Science can explain that these things are all possible, but most are very unlikly. Try not to speculate too much or you’ll have to join a crazy cult like the one I’m trying to dream up. It’s still Damn Interesting though. The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is indeed quite interesting. There are likely multiple conditions that cause people to report such things. One likely explanation is something called conditioned reinforcement. Reinforcement is a process by which an organism’s behavior is selected by environmental events occuring as consequences. When reinforcement occurs an organism’s behavior and its physiology are changed in such a way that the context in which reinforcement has a history of occuring will often begin to acquire its own reinforcing properties. Please note the following passage taken from the article above , “Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new information. ” In the example above the comment at the end of the sentence;”upon the introduction of new information.” is most telling. This statement implies that learning (i.e. reinforcement) has occurred. Because this information is “new”, or…newly conditioned, the “information” becomes more sailient to the individual which increases the likelihood that this person will report what they have seen or heard to others. Lovelace, 2006 What you need to know about the bill to defund Planned Parenthood. It really should be called the Women’s Affordable Healthcare Act, for all it does is shift the.
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