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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... question, but apparently it was claimed that colour-blind people in the Chicago experiment had so many accidents, as red was not always on top, that this clever scheme was abandoned. Years ago traffic lights were simple and unambiguous ...
... question , but certainly there is extensive research on driver behaviour and accidents at lights . Allsop , Brown , Groeger and Robertson ( 1990 ) report that 20,000 people are injured at signalled - controlled road junctions each year ...
... questions about its meanings over centuries, and in many languages by generations of theatre audiences and scholars. It has grown a literature of tens of thousands of learned papers and books of comment, and at least one journal, edited ...
... question. We speak of Hamlet as thinking; Hamlet as procrastinating; even, Hamlet as being conscious. But Hamlet never lived. He is but a product of the bard's wonderful imagination. Even Shakespeare's identity has been questioned, and ...
... of his own mind ( Act III ) are so well known they sound like echoes : Hamlet . To be , or not to be : that is the question ! Whether ' tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , Or to.
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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 | |