tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post3728344331535067485..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: On Old Friends Looking YoungEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-91976510979981306872007-05-30T14:12:00.000-07:002007-05-30T14:12:00.000-07:00Thanks, Anibal. I agree completely -- the determi...Thanks, Anibal. I agree completely -- the determinants of visual experience are much more than just the immediate visual input!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-87321964679129476382007-05-30T07:52:00.000-07:002007-05-30T07:52:00.000-07:00In the context of this post it is pertinent, i th...In the context of this post it is pertinent, i think, to comment about what our visual system from time to time does to us, something like teasing: aftereffects.<BR/><BR/>If we see for some period of time the flowing of water in some direction suddenly starts to flow in the other (neural recalibration)<BR/><BR/>Though that doesn´t fit very well with the fact that we look with caritative eyes to our daily partners and some other idealized or attitued based perception, all in an existential line, explain how our brains uses many tricks beyond simply sense data available in the enviroment. <BR/><BR/>Fill-in phenomena, aftereffects, reconstructions, alignment, grouping, completion, memory based aid perception... are some of them.<BR/><BR/>And in that case, neo-behaviourism, anti-intelectualism, embodied philosophy... unloaded too much our mind-brain continuum (or not?).<BR/><BR/>I don´t know how all this match with the more or less knowledge that we don´t have too much knowledge about our inner workings, but there are inner workings, that in that case make us to see younger our older fellows.Anibal Monasterio Astobizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121020811080165520noreply@blogger.com