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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... QUANTA AND QUALIA 15 WHAT ARE PERCEPTIONS MADE OF? 16 APPEARANCE AND REALITY: A NUMBER OF IDEAS 17 MIND IN A BLACK BOX 18 WHAT IS THE CATCH IN NEURAL NETS? 19 CONNING CORTEX 20 PERCEPTIONS OF WILLIAM JAMES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY.
Richard L. Gregory. 20 PERCEPTIONS OF WILLIAM JAMES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY 21 FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF BRISTOL: WILLIAM GEORGE HORNER 22 GOOD AS GOLD: NEWTON'S ALCHEMY OF MATTER AND MIND 23 COUNTING ON EYES 24 SWITCHING BRAINS ON BY ...
... principles . The situation is made even worse by the placing of the lights to the side of the crossings , rather than suspended above as in many European countries and America ( though this also has its problems ) . Is there some better ...
... principles . Shakespeare initiates Hamlet with a ghost . This is the ghost of Hamlet's father . The reality of the ghost is questioned and tested in the very first scene of Act I , by the officers Marcellus and Bernardo and by Hamlet's ...
... principles on which it is based. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes of Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no ...
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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 | |