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Lionel Messi 🐐

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@LisandrMartinez 🔥

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Your Brain Predicts Reality Before You Experience It

Modern neuroscience shows that perception is not a passive process in which the brain simply records what is happening in the outside world. Instead, the brain constantly predicts what it is about to perceive and then updates those predictions using sensory information. This framework is often called predictive processing or predictive coding.

Rather than building perception from raw data, the brain starts with expectations formed from past experience. It then compares incoming signals from the eyes, ears, and other senses with those expectations. When the signals match the prediction, the brain confirms its guess. When they differ, the brain registers a prediction error and adjusts its model. This allows perception to happen faster and with less effort than if the brain processed every detail from scratch.

This predictive system explains many well-known perceptual effects. For example, in the checker shadow illusion, two squares with identical brightness appear different because the brain predicts how light and shadow should behave. In speech perception, people often “hear” missing sounds when background noise interrupts a word, because the brain fills in what it expects to hear. Similarly, in motion illusions, the brain predicts the continuation of a moving object, which can make static images appear to shift.

The same mechanism also helps the brain deal with ambiguous or incomplete information. When you see an object partly hidden behind a wall, your brain predicts its full shape even though you cannot see it. When you read, your brain anticipates upcoming words, which is why you can read sentences with missing or jumbled letters.

Predictive processing is supported by brain imaging studies showing that higher-level brain areas send more signals downward to sensory regions than they receive from them. These top-down signals carry predictions, while base-up signals carry error corrections. Together, they allow the brain to construct a stable, useful version of reality rather than a raw copy of it.

This does not mean reality is imagined, but it does mean that what we experience is an interpretation shaped by both the world and the brain’s expectations.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

A caterpillar melts inside its cocoon, yet a few cells survive to rebuild it and remember its old life.

[Wisdom Walk @wisdom_walkss]

Gayatri Mantra��� The frequency of 108 is the hidden pulse, or rhythm that is the essence of the living mathematics of Nature, it is the reason why the Vedas worshipped this number by incorporating it into their 108 rosary beads (mala) when they chant their mantras. The most revered of all mantras is the Gayatri Mantra, the most famous Eastern song or Prayer of Enlightenment which is always chanted 108 times, also has a rhythm of 24 syllables! What else embodies mathematically these two numbers 24 and 108. It can only be the Reduced Fibonacci Sequence. Thus in a sense, the Brahmins sonically encrypted or hid this rare sacred knowledge of the Universe’s underlying Patterns of Sri 108 in a song or prayer about the Triple Worlds and an Inner Sun (Savitri). The Vedas teach that this knowledge was written on the Rays of the Sun.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

MESMERIZING.

An they said that India was not a civilizational state!

[þððjå ßï§wå§ @SP_OO_JA_97]

Majestic view of sunrise on Kalish parvat.

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@RenuKumari78 Yo

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

This bronze statue of Varaha goes hard!

[Incognito @Incognito_qfs]

This is Yana Caves in Karnataka.

Maybe India was just lacking right people with good cameras.

[Diksha Kandpal🇮🇳 @DikshaKandpal8]

Changing your religion does not change history

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@grok @Sukoon_Dilon_ki @samooganidhi @grok which is older? Tamil or Sanskrit language

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@will_seaborn Man..u really understand. That is exactly right!

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@PopBase ❤️‍🔥

[FIFA World Cup Stats @alimo_philip]

🐐 Lionel Messi has now won 𝟑𝟗𝟓 Man of the Match awards since his professional debut in 2003 with Barcelona.

🌟 The MOTM awards includes his performances with Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain,Inter Miami and the Argentina national team.

#Messi𓃵|#FIFAWorldCup|#FIFACWC

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@vedikabaisa Looks great

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@gemsofbabus_ The situation is the same in trivandrum, kerala. Some roads r historically the same. They remain filled with potholes...

[IADN @NewsIADN]

Su-30MKI + BrahMos #IAF

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@IndianSinghh Jai Mata Di!!!