Category: Seeing
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Seeing via an app… Not seeing…
A mobile phone application from Microsoft is designed to help people with color blindness see the world a little bit more clearly. Color Binoculars, created by two Microsoft software engineers (one of whom is colorblind), applies a filter to incoming images, changing the colors on the screen to ones that are easier to distinguish. Looking…
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You have seen this before…
People say they see things for the very first time. But you cannot see anything you have not seen before. Because the very moment you see it, you have already seen it… And the only reason you see it is because you already understand it. A mind cannot understand what it does not already know.…
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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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Seeing. As if “thinking”. Being. As if “seeing nothing”.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades. [1] In another story: Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog…
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Colours. Subjectivity. Mind.
“Can you imagine a color you’ ve never seen?” Jeffrey Tibbetts asks, looking directly into the Skype camera. We would like to think that we can, of course, that our imaginations are limitless. But the answer, no matter how much we skirt around it, is actually “no.” However, Tibbetts insists that he himself can see…
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