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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... meanings in Boston, New York and California. And within Britain there are different ambers: most crossings have a fixed amber period, cunningly phased with red and green delays; in others amber flashes, allowing a temporary contract ...
... meaning Don't turn left , or Don't turn right . So why not red arrow traffic lights , meaning Don't go - straight , or left , or right , as the red arrow tells you ? Then red is always Stop and green is always Go . If colour - blind ...
... meaning of a sign ? Whether the system of traffic lights is based on research is a moot question , but certainly there is extensive research on driver behaviour and accidents at lights . Allsop , Brown , Groeger and Robertson ( 1990 ) ...
... meanings of the most celebrated play ever written – Hamlet. This one play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written by William Shakespeare in about 1606, has excited questions about its meanings over centuries, and in many languages by ...
... meaning until the last act (though surely this should apply to Shakespeare rather than to Hamlet); that if this were so, Hamlet wouldn't have hesitated to kill his uncle while at prayer, to save his enemy's soul from going to Heaven ...
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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 | |