Even Odder PerceptionsRoutledge, 27. 3. 2017. - 282 страница Why did Newton struggle for thirty years to make gold by alchemy – and then become Master of the Mint? Why do we blush? Why do we have illusions? In this collection of essays, originally published in 1994, Richard Gregory once again delights and tantalizes with tales of his childhood, his family and friends, the famous and the infamous, and weaves them into a rich pattern to illuminate scientific principles and puzzles. If you can put the book down, each essay is complete on its own, but they are united by the magic of human perception. From seeing and hearing to feeling and believing, from the shape of traffic signs to knowledge of quantum mechanics, all our interactions with the outside world are mediated by perception. Our knowledge is further distilled by the machines which help our own biological mechanisms, like microscopes and telescopes, electric light, and even more powerfully by computer technology. But if the natural structures of perception can affect our interpretation of the world, how much more dramatically might science education and tools of information technology enhance – though sometimes mislead – our perception of reality? Even Odder Perceptions may not have all the answers, but it certainly poses more questions. |
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... individuals to rule - bound cyphers , for characters of literature ? The laws of the physical world are essential keys to the understanding of physics , and some psychological laws are revealed by observations and experiments on people;
... physics – is seen to have its own individual characteristics, with the interest individuality confers. If in the quest of scientific respectability Structuralism reduces Hamlet's character to an anonymous piece as in a game of chess, or ...
... physics in the nineteenth century. Yet now, the Aether is abandoned – another myth. We might say that the universal jell, the aether, was invented to carry light by analogy with sound carried by air. At least by the seventeenth century ...
... physicist James Thomson , Lord Kelvin , deduced properties of the aether from observing smoke rings , concluding that atoms are aether vortices . Unlike air , aether was curiously hard to detect for it seemed to have no extra properties ...
... physics and certainly his most important theoretical one . His lines of force ushered a new era of physics and cosmology ; an era built on the concept of field , which pervaded the space around a magnet and around an electric current ...
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IS SCIENCE GOOD FOR THE SOUL? | |
CRACKS OF DOOM AND KUHN | |
AT FIRST SIGHT | |
SENSES OF HUMOUR | |
ZAP | |
VIRTUALLY REAL | |
QUESTIONS OF QUANTA AND QUALIA | |
WHAT ARE PERCEPTIONS MADE | |
A NUMBER OF IDEAS | |
MIND IN A BLACK | |
WHAT IS THE CATCH IN NEURAL NETS? | |
AT FIRST BLUSH | |
SOUND SAGA | |
CONNING CORTEX | |