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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Sep 20, 2007 20:52
Mind tricks: Six ways to explore your brain
19 September 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Graham Lawton
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526221.300-mind-tricks-six-ways...
1 Seeing isn't believing
TAKE a moment to observe the world around you. Scan the horizon with your eyes.
Tilt your head back and listen. You're probably getting the impression that your
senses are doing a fine job of capturing everything that is going on. Yet that
is all it is: an impression.
Despite the fact that your visual system seems to provide you with a continuous
widescreen movie, most of the time it is only gathering information from a tiny
patch of the visual field. The rest of the time it isn't even doing that.
Somehow from this sporadic input it conjures up a seamless visual experience.
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Author: Don StockbauerDon Stockbauer Date: Sep 20, 2007 21:37
On Sep 20, 10:52 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> Mind tricks: Six ways to explore your brain
> 19 September 2007
> NewScientist.com news service
> Graham Lawton
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526221.300-mind-t...
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> 1 Seeing isn't believing
> TAKE a moment to observe the world around you. Scan the horizon with your eyes.
> Tilt your head back and listen. You're probably getting the impression that your
> senses are doing a fine job of capturing everything that is going on. Yet that
> is all it is: an impression.
>
> Despite the fact that your visual system seems to provide you with a continuous
> widescreen movie, most of the time it is only gathering information from a tiny
> patch of the visual field. The rest of the time it isn't even doing that.
> Somehow from this sporadic input it conjures up a seamless visual experience.
>
> What is going on? Bang in the middle of your retina is a small patch of densely ...
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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Sep 20, 2007 21:42
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:37:27 -0700, Don Stockbauer hotmail.com>
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>That was a long post.
Reality tends to length.
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Date: Sep 21, 2007 00:56
On Sep 21, 5:52 am, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:
I would almost say the opposite. Seeing is believing. Believing,
with justification, that in the combination of quick reconnoitering
and algorithms in the brain we can draw conclusions about moving
around...
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Author: EdEd Date: Sep 21, 2007 08:28
On Sep 20, 11:52 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> Mind tricks: Six ways to explore your brain
> 19 September 2007
One way to view this is as an example of system engineering and the
compromises it entails. Our sensors (eyes, ears, etc.) are far from
ideal; our brain has many limitations. Selection pressures have
favored an amalgam of these things that does the best possible job of
survival in the environment in which we evolved. Naturally, tests can
be devised that expose the compromises in the system. Could the
system have fewer such flaws if one or more of its elements were made
more capable? Undoubtedly. Something for AI designers to
contemplate.
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Author: WordsmithWordsmith Date: Sep 21, 2007 11:07
On Sep 20, 10:42 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:37:27 -0700, Don Stockbauer hotmail.com>
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>>>That was a long post.
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> Reality tends to length.
Brevity is the soul of width.
W ; )
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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Sep 21, 2007 11:22
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:07:19 -0700, Wordsmith rocketmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 20, 10:42 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:37:27 -0700, Don Stockbauer hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>>>That was a long post.
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>> Reality tends to length.
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>Brevity is the soul of width.
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Long time, deep.
Also, we need some particular adjectives
for the various hyper dimensions.
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