Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Philosophy Wire: Seeing. Without seeing…

Researchers have identified how the human brain is able to determine the properties of a particular object using purely statistical information. Our brain has the ability to break up the continuous stream of information received by our sensory inputs into distinct chunks. A pickpocket is able to interpret the sequence of small depressions on his fingers as a series of well-defined objects in a pocket or handbag, while the shopper's visual system is able to interpret photons as reflections of light from the objects in the window. Our ability to extract distinct objects from cluttered scenes by touch or sight alone and accurately predict how they will feel based on how they look, or how they look based on how they feel, is critical to how we interact with the world. [1]

Close your eyes and the cosmos will disappear.
Do you really believe that it did?
You really don't see anything.
Until the moment you decide to.
Well before we sensed the cosmos, we laughed as children…

We can't see anything.
And what best proof that there is nothing to see.
Than the fact that we see everything?

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