#experiment2

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VOIVOD performs with symphony

Canada’s Voivod performed with the Orchestre Symphonique De Québec, conducted by Dina Gilbert, on June 4th at Grand Théâtre de Québec in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The setlist was: 1. Experiment2. Holographic Thinking3. The Unknown Knows4. The End Of Dormancy5. Into My Hypercube6. Forgotten In Space7. Cosmic Drama8. Pre-Ignition9. Nuclear War10. Fall11. Tribal Convictions12. Astronomy…

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Bounded Choice: The Illusion of Autonomy in High-Control Systems – A Tribute to Philip Zimbardo

This essay was written in honor of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who died on October 14, 2024, at the age of 91. Dr. Zimbardo was best known for his theory that situational and systemic factors can lead ordinary people to commit harmful or immoral acts. Zimbardo’s research focused on the psychology of evil, which included studies on “the Lucifer Effect,” deindividuation, and the Bystander Effect. His work was particularly relevant to our understanding of the dehumanization and abuses of Muslim prisoners by American soldiers who were guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 during America’s “War on Terror.” Here the author illustrates the ways in which her own theoretical work both gained from and intersected with Zimbardo’s work.        On May 17, 1993, I stood before Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s psychology class at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, my hands trembling slightly as I prepared to speak publicly1 about my cult experience for the first time. Dr. Zimbardo had invited me to share my story, seemingly understanding intuitively what I would later spend decades researching and articulating: that intelligent, educated people can find themselves making seemingly incomprehensible choices when caught in systems of cultic dynamics and coercive control.

That day marked the beginning of my public journey from survivor to scholar, though I didn’t know it then. As I described the incremental process through which my autonomy had been constrained within the political cult I’d belonged to, I saw in the students’ faces the same question that I was grappling with: “How could someone let this happen to them?” It was a question that would eventually lead me to develop the concept of bounded choice—a theoretical framework that would both complement and extend Zimbardo’s groundbreaking work on the power of situational forces in shaping human behavior.3

Just as Zimbardo’s famous Stanford Prison Experiment2 revealed how ordinary college students could be transformed by the roles and rules imposed upon them, my research, which culminated in my bounded choice theory, would demonstrate how high-functioning individuals can become entrapped in a web of constraints that progressively narrow their thought processes and perception of available options. The parallels between our findings, though arrived at through drastically different methodological paths, illuminate a crucial truth about human nature: context and constraint are often more powerful than character.

Standing in that auditorium, packed with several hundred students, I was still years away from fully understanding the theoretical implications of my experience. However, Dr. Zimbardo’s work on situational forces had already provided a crucial foundation for comprehending how otherwise reasonable people could engage in behaviors that seemed, to outside observers, both extreme and inexplicable. His research demonstrated that individual behavior cannot be understood in isolation from its context—a principle that would become central to my doctoral research and the resultant concept of bounded choice. Early on, Zimbardo was a much-respected contributor to society’s understanding of cults and cultic dynamics and behavior. 

The Concept of Bounded Choice The students who participated in the Stanford Prison Experiment, like the members of the political cult I had belonged to, didn’t arrive with predetermined dispositions toward authoritarianism or submission. Instead, they found themselves responding to an increasingly restrictive environment that shaped their perceptions, choices, and ultimately their actions. What Zimbardo demonstrated in a compressed timeframe in his experiment, I had lived through for more than ten years: the gradual construction of a closed system of meaning and behavior that made previously unthinkable choices seem not only reasonable but necessary.

Bounded choice4 theory emerged from my need to explain and elucidate how such a transformation occurs—not just in the artificial confines of an experiment, but also in the real-world contexts of cults, domestic abuse, and other coercive environments. While Zimbardo showed how situation could triumph over disposition, my work would go on to map the specific mechanisms through which these situations create transcendent (extreme) belief systems, self-sealing systems of logic, and the systematic narrowing of acceptable behaviors and perceived choices.

That day, standing before Dr. Zimbardo’s class, marked my first step toward bridging the gap between lived experience and theoretical understanding. His willingness to platform a survivor’s voice—to recognize that personal testimony could contribute meaningfully to psychological understanding—exemplified the kind of boundary-crossing scholarship that would characterize both our approaches to understanding human behavior under constraint.

The parallels between Zimbardo’s findings and the bounded choice theory become particularly striking when we examine how both frameworks illuminate the process of personal transformation under systematic constraints. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo documented how student “guards” gradually adopted increasingly authoritarian behaviors, while “prisoners” became progressively more passive and dependent. This transformation didn’t happen overnight. Rather, it occurred through a series of small steps, each building upon the last, until participants found themselves acting in ways they never would have predicted.

Similarly, bounded choice theory explains how individuals in cultic and coercive groups undergo a comparable transformation through four interlocking dimensions: the transcendent belief system, the systems of control, the systems of influence, and the closed system of logic, all orchestrated by the so-called charismatic leader (aka authoritarian ruler). Like Zimbardo’s guards and prisoners, cult members don’t suddenly abandon their previous values and behaviors. Instead, they experience a gradual reshaping of their reality through these four dimensions, each reinforcing the others until their choices become increasingly constrained within the group’s framework of meaning.

TO BE CONTINUED

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What is Bounded Choice?

VIDEO: Why do people join cults? – Janja Lalich

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Занадто багато зірок

Читати на АО3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/62342920

Автор/ка Experiment2

Фанхати: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Опис:

#чотирисезони2025Епідемія перетворила частину людства на монстрів. Держави й міста занепали. Бандитизм росте. Але люди все одно борються за владу, навіть коли нема над чим владарювати.Купка вчених шукає спосіб перемогти зомбі.Купка військових намагається тримати порядок там, де йо��о бути не може.Купка лікарів рятує людей.А хтось просто перевозить вантажі з точки А в точку Б.Ласкаво просимо в зомбі АВ)

Кількість слів: 2,801, Частини: 1/15

Рейтинг: Teen And Up Audiences

Попередження: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Категорії: F/M, M/M

Персонажі: Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Taehyung | V, Park Jimin (BTS), Jeon Jungkook, Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope, Gong Jichul | Gong Yoo, Jung Hoyeon, Han Huojoo

Читати на АО3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/62342920

[wrongwarp]

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Experiment 1 - exploring the binaries between individual sounds and how they can come together to create a harmonious piece!

I tried using garage band for the first time just to see how it would turn out. It was cool to see how each separate beat/tune when played together could create something so dynamic and sinisterrrrr

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ASSESSMENT 3: Experiment 2

~ Focus: using plotting software to try and use graphing techniques/linear plots to create a visual effect. 

This experiment turned out to be fairly overwhelming visually, mainly due to the scale and very limited colour palette. I’m not sure how much of this imagery I’ll use in my final work, but I do like where it came from and the calculated (but still a little unpredictable) nature of the curves. 

~Explanation: read these images in columns, as 4 sets of graphs stemming from the same original (i.e top row of four are the same exact graph using the same formula and parameters). As you step down each plot, either one or both of the variables has been altered by a very small amount in order to document what could be a passage of time, or a spatial difference, or both. 

~ The original graph is actually a basic version of a wave function that could be used to describe resonance of the human body (based on my own measurements) in terms of x (spatial) and t (temporal). We’ve just finished covering waves in physics, and the idea of fundamental frequencies and natural resonance really stuck with me; using an implicit plot to map this waveform out let me mimic some of my line drawings, as it produced these extremely layered but relatively simple images. 

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In today’s society,with the expanding population and improvment of our life,we start to pursue beauty.For example,people will buy some potted plants and put them in cups,it can save space and it is very functional.

So i started to think can i use a box to make a nice potted plants.

I found a box which i put headset .

I used knife made two holes,the reason is if i need to irrigated plants the two holes will provide a good outlet.

After this i start to put soil and plants in it.

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Experiment 2: Using the gamestyling 

In this experiment, I tried to create a gamestyling on expressing and presenting the battle between human-being (Zoe, in the animation) and mosquitoes. Furthermore, I still tried to keep the style of Jenny Watson in this work. Arno Caravel was the inspiration.

The process was quite exciting that I even felt that I was playing the game of “Killing Mosquitoes” :)

[thetravelingtotoros]

Well...experiment two isn’t a complete failure...the Stars were still foggy but the clear ones work quite a bit better. I think we should try one more experiment with just clear molds to see what happens. Though the bracelet was a huge failure...it’s very bendy and won’t harden. Oh bother #molds #resin #totoro #bracelet #fail #new #experiment2 #foggy #star #silicone https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz2OHxfhjI8/?igshid=14c0fweptnr41

[sherrychen2017]

Experiment 2: Repetition

I repeatedly took screenshots of the original work and imported them into photoshop: duplicating many of the layers.

All the layers were set to ‘multiply mode’ 

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Екстрасенс

Читати на АО3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/61147327

Автор/ка Experiment2

Фанхати: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Відносини: Kim Namjoon | RM/Park Jimin, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Min Yoongi | Suga, Kim Seokjin | Jin/Kim Taehyung | V, Jeon Jungkook & Kim Woosung | Sammy

Опис:

Бути екстрасенсом важко. Не лише тому що тобі ніхто не вірить, але й тому що те, що ти бачиш, зажене в депресію будь-кого. Та Пак Чимін не будь-хто, він тримається. Він втримається.

Кількість слів: 4,141, Частини: 2/2

Рейтинг: Mature

Попередження: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Категорії: M/M

Читати на АО3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/61147327

[adr2-taeyoung-sp17]

[camillablome]

Experiment 2: Art simultaneously being created and destroyed

For this experiment I went to Katoomba Falls in the Blue Mountains and created a sound performance work. Using the sound of the waterfall as the base of the musical piece I added other environmental sounds through hitting rocks and rustling leaves. This created an ephemeral sound piece which embodied its surrounding natural environment.

However, I did not document the work. I did not take a video, photo or a sound recording nor was anyone else there to listen to it. Did my work happen? The absence of any documentation as I performed this work meant that it was simultaneously being created and destroyed.

This experiment engages with the classic quantum theory question of ‘if a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody around to hear, does it make a sound?’ In questioning this idea i thought about the nature of performance art, and how the only thing to verify its occurrence is the documentation i.e.In Marina Abramovic’s peformace work, “the lovers” the only reason that people were aware that this actually existed (apart from the artists) was because of videos and photos.

 This idea (as discussed in my previous post) stems from my first assessment where i was investigated how as a result of overstimulation, art is losing its message. If this is true, and we live in a society where we perpetually critique and criticise plus social media/ globalisation has meant that an overwhelming amount of art can constantly be accessed, is art against all odds before even being created i.e. is it being destroyed (lost its value or message) at the same time its being made?

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Experiment 2

I wanted to further develop my glitched mountain photo by progressing it to a moving form. I chose a different image I preferred that focuses more on my subject matter and experimented with trying to make a moveable image.

I looked at a couple youtube tutorials and decided to try it with this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDvD_qzbOM and photoshop.

In the process of creating my GIF, I had to manipulate different layers with filters such as wave, motion blur and adjusting colour channels. All of this had to be done on a timeline setting and through adjusting the timing of the timeline of layers I was able to create my GIF.

I really liked the process and outcome of this experiment and will likely be progressing to use it in my final project to comment on the distortion of the organic by the synthetic.  

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[thetravelingtotoros]

Resin experiment two! I hope the clear ones work...#resin #experiment2 #clear #silicone #totoro https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz2NRgMhT6Z/?igshid=s27d63xf1sop