La ciencia es noticia (SINC) | 2018 Apr 10
A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does not detect if someone crosses the stage disguised as a gorilla. According to researchers at the University of Cádiz (Spain), something similar could be happening to us when we try to discover intelligent non-earthly signals, which perhaps manifest themselves in dimensions that escape our perception, such as the unknown dark matter and energy.
One of the problems that have long intrigued experts in cosmology is how to detect possible extraterrestrial signals. Are we really looking in the right direction? Maybe not, according to the study that the neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García, from the University of Cádiz, publish in the journal Acta Astronautica. ...
The authors state that our own neurophysiology, psychology and consciousness can play an important role in the search for non-terrestrial civilizations; an aspect that they consider has been neglected until now. ...
The Cosmic Gorilla Effect or the Problem of Undetected Non Terrestrial Intelligent Signals - Gabriel G. De la Torre, Manuel A.Garcia
- Acta Astronautica 146:83 (May 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.02.036
