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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... experience , discussions and jokes with friends . So I acknowledge a debt to all my friends and colleagues . Most particularly , I would like to thank Anne Neville for patient and careful work on the manuscript . The Leverhulme Trust ...
... experienced with the traffic lights the kind of power to make things start or stop that the policeman had lost with ... experience. It is perfectly obvious that nothing is coming so it is perfectly safe to drive on, yet we are inhibited ...
Richard L. Gregory. little survey . He cancelled the summons . In my experience the police are fair and reasonable . Who would expect the shape of the background to change the meaning of a sign ? Whether the system of traffic lights is ...
... no more difficult to understand than anyone else of our acquaintance. If we deny him existence (as recent Structuralism seems to do) we are denied our own experience for understanding the play ; then it becomes arbitrary and dull.
... experience of telegraphy. He found that this new kind of spark would not charge a Leyden jar, did not affect an electroscope, or a galvanometer (Jehl 1937, p. 82). This discovery was made twelve years before the experiments of Heinrich ...
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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 | |