Perception - Attention and the Body

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your brain decides what reaches awareness. It drops constant smells, still listens for your name, builds dream scenes into a waking room, turns expectation into bodily feeling and changes your behaviour when you think someone is looking.

Nose Blindness and the Filtered Home

Published 2026-08-12 · Watch the short

You cannot smell your own house, though every visitor can. This is olfactory adaptation, sometimes called nose blindness. The nose keeps sending signals, but when a smell stays constant the brain decides it is no longer new information and stops flagging it. The video says this frees attention for something that may matter, such as smoke or spoiled food.

Simulation - Shadows and the Strangeness of Existence

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How sure are you that the world you see is the base level of reality? A film about nested simulations, Plato's prisoners, a science fiction writer's strange vision and the plain wonder of existing all ask how much of what feels real we have actually checked.

The 13th Floor and Nested Simulations

Published 2026-09-12 · Watch the short

The 1999 film The 13th Floor imagines scientists who build a digital recreation of a city. The people inside believe they are real, until one character notices inconsistencies and discovers that his world is itself a simulation built inside another reality.

Perception on Ghafoor's Personal Blog

Perception - Attention and the Body

Nose Blindness and the Filtered Home

Simulation - Shadows and the Strangeness of Existence

The 13th Floor and Nested Simulations