Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Beyond the subconscious

http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/10/beyond-the-subconscious/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2014/08/16/making-sense-of-big-data-with-virtual-reality-and-the-power-of-the-unconscious-mind/

We are only aware of about 10% of our brain activity, so scientists at a lab in Barcelona are working to increase that percentage. They hope to enable us to perform better in a world which is increasingly overwhelmed by data.
Collecting data is easy. The difficult part is making sense of it. Drowning in floods of data, humans often can’t find meaning in complex databases. So these researchers are working with sophisticated virtual reality tools to help