Even Odder PerceptionsRoutledge, 27. 3. 2017 - Počet stran: 282 Why did Newton struggle for thirty years to make gold by alchemy – and then become Master of the Mint? Why do we blush? Why do we have illusions? In this collection of essays, originally published in 1994, Richard Gregory once again delights and tantalizes with tales of his childhood, his family and friends, the famous and the infamous, and weaves them into a rich pattern to illuminate scientific principles and puzzles. If you can put the book down, each essay is complete on its own, but they are united by the magic of human perception. From seeing and hearing to feeling and believing, from the shape of traffic signs to knowledge of quantum mechanics, all our interactions with the outside world are mediated by perception. Our knowledge is further distilled by the machines which help our own biological mechanisms, like microscopes and telescopes, electric light, and even more powerfully by computer technology. But if the natural structures of perception can affect our interpretation of the world, how much more dramatically might science education and tools of information technology enhance – though sometimes mislead – our perception of reality? Even Odder Perceptions may not have all the answers, but it certainly poses more questions. |
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... HAMLET 4 WHAT USE IS A JELLY BABY? 5 IS SCIENCE BAD FOR THE SOUL? 6 IS SCIENCE GOOD FOR THE SOUL? 7 CRACKS – OF DOOM AND KUHN 8 AT FIRST SIGHT 9 AT FIRST BLUSH 10 HI-FALOOTIN-FI: SOUND SAGA 11 SENSES OF HUMOUR 12 ZAP! 13 VIRTUALLY REAL ...
... Me : Well - you see - that's the point . Unfortunately she didn't see this point . I never was able to explain it effectively , to her or to myself . Just what is the point ? 3 Perceptions of Hamlet THE CASE OF THE SUGARED ALMONDS.
Richard L. Gregory. Just what is the point ? 3 Perceptions of Hamlet This essay was inspired (breathed in)
... Hamlet. Hamlet appears in Chambers Biographical Dictionary as though he had really lived, and we learn there that he first appeared in the legend of Hamlet, in the twelfth-century Latin history of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus. In the ...
... Hamlet's soliloquies might be seen as the medium for the bard to express his own thoughts; or they might be Hamlet's protracted thought experiments, necessary for his considered action. Here we meet a curious question. We speak of ...
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IS SCIENCE GOOD FOR THE SOUL? | |
CRACKS OF DOOM AND KUHN | |
AT FIRST SIGHT | |
SENSES OF HUMOUR | |
ZAP | |
VIRTUALLY REAL | |
QUESTIONS OF QUANTA AND QUALIA | |
WHAT ARE PERCEPTIONS MADE | |
A NUMBER OF IDEAS | |
MIND IN A BLACK | |
WHAT IS THE CATCH IN NEURAL NETS? | |
AT FIRST BLUSH | |
SOUND SAGA | |
CONNING CORTEX | |