Category: Wrong perceptions
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This is deep…
A child passing next to a shallow pond of water at the edge of the street… “This must be very deep”, it says to its parents as they walk together. “You cannot see the bottom of it”, it says. And I smiled as we walked. Not at the child. But at the arrogance of humans. […]
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Children’s Philosophy Episodes 1 & 2: How a child answers the great questions by… not answering
About Children’s Philosophy: A series of articles that will show how small children answer the greatest philosophical questions of humanity. Philosophers need to question everything. And in order to do that, one must think as a child again! One can find wisdom in crazy persons and in children. So that is what I did: I […]
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Brain, Bayesian reasoning, hallucinations, schizophrenia, obstacles…
By weaving together expectations and information gleaned from the senses, the brain creates a story about the outside world. “The brain is a guessing machine, trying at each moment of time to guess what is out there,” says computational neuroscientist Peggy Seriès. Guesses just slightly off — like mistaking a smile for a smirk — […]
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Changing perception. [Crazy]
Things change. Many people are afraid of change. But if you think it is something you may count on, then it looks like comfort. [Madison’s bridges] Death is the end of life. Many people are afraid of death. We think death as a scary skeleton with a scythe. But if you think death as a wonderful […]
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