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Schemas07 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Optical Illusions are "Brain Failures"
They demonstrate how imperfect our senses are and why we need science and scientific instruments to show us the way.
Folksonomies: science,perception,optical illusions
Optical Illusions are "Brain Failures"They demonstrate how imperfect our senses are and why we need science and scientific instruments to show us the way.
Folksonomies: science,perception,optical illusions
30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Illusion of Taste
When we taste sweetness, our tongues are not responding to the C, O, or H, but to the molecule.
Folksonomies: chemistry,perception,senses,taste,experience
The Illusion of TasteWhen we taste sweetness, our tongues are not responding to the C, O, or H, but to the molecule.
Folksonomies: chemistry,perception,senses,taste,experience
03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus How File Structure Affects Our Perception of the World
Files are compact chunks that can be categorized, have versions, and can be matched to applications. But don't we do this with taxonomy in biology? Species are defined, but they are flowing degrees of characteristics that we semi-artificially categorize.
Folksonomies: philosophy,perception,categories,interface
How File Structure Affects Our Perception of the WorldFiles are compact chunks that can be categorized, have versions, and can be matched to applications. But don't we do this with taxonomy in biology? Species are defined, but they are flowing degrees of characteristics that we semi-artificially categorize.
Folksonomies: philosophy,perception,categories,interface
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Consciousness of the Fallibility of Our Senses is a Result of Study...
When you understand the underlying reality of what we see in the world around us, you understand that our perceptions deceive us. Sounds vaguely post-modern.
Folksonomies: science,knowledge,perception,senses,postmodernism
Consciousness of the Fallibility of Our Senses is a Result of Study...When you understand the underlying reality of what we see in the world around us, you understand that our perceptions deceive us. Sounds vaguely post-modern.
Folksonomies: science,knowledge,perception,senses,postmodernism
12 DEC 2011 by ideonexus The Brain Creates Models of the World
Using the eye as an example, Hawking describes how our brains model the outside world and builds theories about it.
Folksonomies: empiricism,perception,theory,senses
The Brain Creates Models of the WorldUsing the eye as an example, Hawking describes how our brains model the outside world and builds theories about it.
Folksonomies: empiricism,perception,theory,senses
25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Aristotle Did Not Work From Experience
...having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorts to experience, and bending her into conformity with his placets, leads her about like a captive in a procession.
Folksonomies: classics,perception,bias,aristotle
Aristotle Did Not Work From Experience...having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorts to experience, and bending her into conformity with his placets, leads her about like a captive in a procession.
Folksonomies: classics,perception,bias,aristotle
25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Humans Pay More Attention to Affirmatives, Biased Toward Our Hypoth...
...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike.
Folksonomies: observation,perception,bias
Humans Pay More Attention to Affirmatives, Biased Toward Our Hypoth......it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike.
Folksonomies: observation,perception,bias
25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Man's Sense is Not the Measure of All Things
...human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Folksonomies: nature,perception,senses
Man's Sense is Not the Measure of All Things...human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Folksonomies: nature,perception,senses
20 JUL 2011 by ideonexus I Think; Therefore, I Am
Descartes most important contribution to philosophical thought.
Folksonomies: philosophy,perception,consciousness
I Think; Therefore, I AmDescartes most important contribution to philosophical thought.
Folksonomies: philosophy,perception,consciousness
19 JUN 2011 by ideonexus What Makes Something a Distinct Object?
Our perceptions are built on photons hitting our retinas and pressure variations tickling the folicles in our cochleas... so how does all that become something distinct in our mind's eye?
Folksonomies: perception
What Makes Something a Distinct Object?Our perceptions are built on photons hitting our retinas and pressure variations tickling the folicles in our cochleas... so how does all that become something distinct in our mind's eye?
Folksonomies: perception
