SuperSensing Science: Polarotactic People, HyperPolarized light & PlantWave Garden Example

[Randy Eady]

Polarotactic people appear more attracted to linearly polarized light (sunsets on the sea, or on light reflected from a shiny car (especially black or red cars: they happen to reflect light similarly to how water does) and especially to circularly (hyper) polarized light as in stars or in diamonds.

What makes us polarotactic?  Peering into our eyes, with the help of the latest supersensing* eye tracking & the Imagine Eyes in-vivo retinal camera rtx-1e: people apparently present different retinal mosaics with variations in the orientation of their photoreceptors when exposed to various light reflective states.

"Non-polarotactic people have many photoreceptors oriented in the same direction and seem therefore irritated by polarized light as it fires too many divergent photoreceptors at the same time. They tend to avoid shiny objects." explains Diana Derva, Derval Research founder and author of the book The Right Sensory Mix.

​A new eco-trend in "neuro-landscaping" has begun to emerge with the consideration of supersensing* and radical empathy.  These processes combine cutting-edge neuroscience with therapeutics -- derived from ecology and nature-settings to offer insights into how external senses: vision, taste, touch, smell, hearing and haptics can combine with internal sensations (such as balance, startle~response and ASMR receptivity) can create biochemical/hormonal connections that inform healing on a hormonal level.  

Healing, then, can be seen in a preferential aspect as much (or even more) than behavior.  Linked directly to biological and sensory perceptions, these internal & external perceptions can exert tremendous influence on healing efficacy.

 

A wide range of applications - medicinal and therapeutic, food and beverage, electronics, luxury items, fashion, cosmetics, automotive, pharmaceuticals, advertising, leisure, and tourism, to name but a few - can benefit from this understanding.

* SuperSensing and Radical Empathy​

“SUPER SENSING”  refers to an approach and system bringing new ideas to sensing by rethinking the structure of sensing design and reconfiguring the process of development based on those design concepts.  In conjunction, new nodes and links of perception -- transform basic observation patterns -- ultimately aiding in the elaboration of a radical empathetic appreciation of Nature's design.  

An exemplar of this supersensing concept is PlantWaves which serves to combine human cell biology w/classical botany, elaborating the mode of action of plant metabolites in humans.

Titled: PlantWaves (SuperSensing Interface) @Sam W. Hitt Medicinal Plant Gardens, located outside UNC-Chapel Hil...

The installation is designed to reflect the frequency of the living plants. Output frequency data of multiple plants is read by a custom-designed electrocardiogram. This information is then translated into a visual image designed for the size ratio of the existing medicinal garden wall.

In total, 16 different plants from within the garden -- were chosen as collaborators.

Much of the SuperSensing work done at this level is cell-to-cell (biosemiotic) communication. Present focus is devoted to understanding novel mechanisms for activating the heterotrimeric G protein complex (GPC).

Plant Waves serves to combines human cell biology w/classical botany, elaborating the mode of action of plant metabolites in humans. The GAEA (Gardening and Ethnobotany in Academia) Project is an underwriter and continues to improve and maintain the Medicinal Plant Gardens.

Into the Weeds:  Known as the G-cycle

(In essence, using the diversity of life to discover the diversity of cell signaling is a powerful approach -- as most eukaryotic cells outside of the animal group -- have a very different activation mechanism.)

Unlike in plant cells and protists -- that spontaneously couple this GPC -- in animals, a catalyzed nucleotide exchange on the Galpha subunit is needed for GDP nucleotide exchange.