Essay talk:Kangaroo Paradox

Dunno about the delete: the guy's apparently into some kind of mind &rarr; quantum effect &rarr; mind theory. Might be worth a look. 05:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Move to essay-space, possibly? 05:29, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. This is more essay material than article material. At least for now.  05:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yup! 05:32, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Transferred from pre-move talk-page
Actually, I am putting up a moderator's work,  from the Anthony Peake Cheating the Ferryman forum. Karl L Le Marcs is a global moderator and administrator on Mr. Peake's international forum; Peake has published 2 books on binary mind theory using quantum physics. May I place this under pseudoscience? thanks very much. &mdash; Unsigned, by: Philosopher / talk / contribs
 * If it's copied: 1 it ought to say so; 2 Do we need permission to publish? 05:40, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Hee!
He's (possibly) a nutter? 05:38, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

There's definitely something to this
I have always noticed that when I learn the definition of a new word, all of a sudden I start to see it all the time. I am intrigued as to what I did before I learnt the meaning - did it just wash over me or something? Does this happen to anyone else?--DamoHi 05:38, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I remember this from gradeschool. As I digested my weekly spelling and vocab words I would start to notice them being used all the time.  It's probably just a function of the brain having new patterns to recognize, and our brains are pattern recognition machines.  This essay also touches on pareidolia. Corry 06:21, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Also happens with objects & people: notice something (say a silver car or a man with a strange moustache) & you'll begin to see them all over. 06:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, we do not need permission, as I act as his press agent, though informally and unpaid; I am the moderator for the philosophy section on Peake's forum--  and he is grateful for my putting his work anywhere,  so long as I attribute it to him (Karl L Lemarcs,  A Dark Philosopher,  which I did).  You can look at the forum,  at if you like.  I was putting the picture up for his birthday,  but I only want the small one,  obviously,  do not know how to get rid of that larger one.  No,  he is quite the philosopher,  neither are nuts,  but binary mind theorists.  That astral projection is an unfortunate thing,  indeed: cannot say as I blame you for being intellectually "turned off", as it were.  If you knew these two, you would see they are epistemic:   phenomenologists and teleologists:  Philosophers of a very high order,  not nuts.  Though my hackles rise to defend them,  I know what you mean about the astral travel:  Ugh. Philosopher 05:53, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems (after a bit of googling) to be a reasonable guy. If the "synopsis" is a quote it should be made clear that it is. 05:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * (EC) To be posted here, the essay must be released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, or something more liberal like CC-BY or public domain. 05:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * (and the picture) 06:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You can icense it to RW only, we just have to indicate that it's not CC-BY-SA because I think the copyrights section usually includes the disclaimer "unless where explicitly stated". This would require direct permission from the copyright holder, and I'm not sure an "informal press agent/website moderator" would count. 10:49, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Other name
Related: "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon". Coarb 05:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

The technical term for this in psychology is called "priming." Baader-Meinhof is more commonly called the "recency effect." These are pretty fundamental in the field of memory in psychology. Confirmation bias is basically self-induced priming. The Jungian stuff tacked on at the end is just bullshit, though. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Hawthorne Effect
Long-known.--Tom Moore fiat justitia 06:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I better be more specific, actually: having their attention called to the subject directly influenced the amount of attention to which they paid it. This guy is just reading some deeper meaning into that... as if looking for truth means you will find it in the same way looking for incidents of the concept of "kangaroo" means you will find them.--Tom Moore fiat justitia 06:45, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added it to the "to do" list. 10:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)