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In Reply to: Trusting your senses posted by Presto on March 20, 2007 at 15:43:46:
Our brains are active intepreters, filtering out most of what is bombarding us and being stimulated only by a small slice of "reality" - our brains interpret based upon a virtual library of experience. You recognized a bird where there was cardboard because the physical appearance of the cardboard, at paces, locked with an archetype of a bird stored in your brain.If you had never seen a bird before, of if the only birds you had ever seen were Ostriches, the cardboard would likely have registered as something else.
Take the "Mona Lisa" for example: Why does one recognize the image of a woman and not simply an abstract sloshing of paint and colors on fabric? It requires first a stored archetype (or several), from which the brain can draw an interpretation of the optical stimulus.
Chris
%22In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.%22 - Yogi Berra
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