21 Декабря 2012 года все кончится???

[Ripley]

Если серьезно, то календарь майя построен на цикличности. То, что нашли три колесика на 6 тыс. лет еще не значит, что у них не было еще десять колесиков, на еще миллион лет Там же говорят, что почти все уничтожено - это какие-то жалкие крохи, оставшиеся от целой цивилизации. Это первое.

Второе - даже если и есть только эти 6000 лет, то кто сказал, что именно 21.12. 2012? Насколько я поняла, считается, что цивилизация майя возникла где-то около 3000 лет до нашей эры Сдается мне, ребята просто выбрали именно этот день зимнего солнцестояния, чтобы успеть навыпускать книжек и собрать денюжку с легковерных. Назначили дату конца света

Когда дата пройдет - они выпустят еще книжек/фильмов с "уточненной датой" И все дела

Так и представляю, как авторы метнулись к астрономам:
- Ребята, есть что-нить пугающее на ближайшие зимние солнцестояния - хорошо бы астероид - мы тогда завяжем это дело на Ностардамуса
Те чешут затылки
- Не, нету нифига...
- Ну хоть что-нить есть?
- Ну вот, Солнце , Земля и центр Млечного Пути будут на одной оси в 2012
- О! Зашибись, пойдет Ну и так далее

[Ripley]

[(Alex)]

Гораздо более широкой фокус у этого видео, но тем, кому интересен прежде всегдо 21.12.2012 прямиком ко второму, на третью - четвёртую минуточку. а вообще все интересно – как минимум дает ключевые слова для дальнешего поиска.


http://vkontakte.ru/video-27538_88557064

http://vkontakte.ru/video-27538_88557039

[Marmot]

Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why?

The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined in my December 2008 column as the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. Consider the face on Mars, the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich, satanic messages in rock music. Of course, some patterns are real. Finding predictive patterns
in changing weather, fruiting trees, migrating prey animals and hungry predators was central to the survival of Paleolithic hominids.

The problem is that we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false patterns. So we make two types of errors: a type I error, or false positive, is believing a pattern is real when it is not; a type II error, or false negative, is not believing a pattern is real when it is. If you believe that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is just the wind (a type I error), you are more likely to survive than if you believe that the rustle in the grass is just the wind when it is a dangerous predator (a type II error). Because the cost of making a type I error is less than the cost of making a type II error and because there is no time for careful deliberation between patternicities in the split-second world of predator-prey interactions, natural selection would have favored those animals most likely to assume that all patterns are real.

But we do something other animals do not do. As large-brained hominids with a developed cortex and a theory of mind—the capacity to be aware of such mental states as desires and intentions in both ourselves and others—we infer agency behind the patterns we observe in a practice I call “agent­icity”: the tendency to believe that the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents. We believe that these intentional agents control the world, sometimes invisibly from the top down (as opposed to bottom-up causal randomness). Together patternicity and agent­icity form the cognitive basis of shamanism, paganism, animism, polytheism, monotheism, and all modes of Old and New Age spiritualisms.

Agenticity carries us far beyond the spirit world. The Intelligent Designer is said to be an invisible agent who created life from the top down. Aliens are often portrayed as powerful beings coming down from on high to warn us of our impending self-destruction. Conspiracy theories predictably include hidden agents at work behind the scenes, puppet masters pulling political and economic strings as we dance to the tune of the Bilderbergers, the Roth­schilds, the Rockefellers or the Illuminati. Even the belief that government can impose top-down measures to rescue the economy is a form of agenticity, with President Barack Obama being touted as “the one” with almost messianic powers who will save us.

There is now substantial evidence from cognitive neuroscience that humans readily find patterns and impart agency to them, well documented in the new book SuperSense (HarperOne, 2009) by University of Bristol psychologist Bruce Hood. Examples: children believe that the sun can think and follows them around; because of such beliefs, they often add smiley faces on sketched suns. Adults typically refuse to wear a mass murderer’s sweater, believing that “evil” is a supernatural force that imparts its negative agency to the wearer (and, alternatively, that donning Mr. Rogers’s cardigan will make you a better person). A third of transplant patients believe that the donor’s personality is transplanted with the organ. Genital-shaped foods (bananas, oysters) are often believed to enhance sexual potency. Subjects watching geometric shapes with eye spots interacting on a computer screen conclude that they represent agents with moral intentions.
“Many highly educated and intelligent individuals experience a powerful sense that there are patterns, forces, energies and entities operating in the world,” Hood explains. “More important, such experiences are not substantiated by a body of reliable evidence, which is why they are supernatural and unscientific. The inclination or sense that they may be real is our supersense.”

We are natural-born supernaturalists.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... agenticity

[(Alex)]

yeah, so what does this:

The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined in my December 2008 column as the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. Consider the face on Mars, the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich, satanic messages in rock music.

, and the rest of the article do to the theory of evolution ?
And by evolution, I mean the origin of men, of course

[Marmot]

yeah, so what does this:

The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined in my December 2008 column as the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. Consider the face on Mars, the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich, satanic messages in rock music.

, and the rest of the article do to the theory of evolution ?
And by evolution, I mean the origin of men, of course

А в чем проблема?
Мне, например, эта мысль кажется весьма здравой, и неплохо укладывающейся в общую идею

[nonn]

как говорили в одном хорошем кино, -Всё уже украдено до нас.
2012 - Official Trailer голливуд не дремлет.

[Wind]

"Вспорхнут оранжевые эльфы
Над бирюзовою зарёй
И одичавшие пришельцы
Вздохнут о родине былой… "
.............
Я знаю, что буду скучать по Земле...