Michele Pasin / Quotes

Vision builds a world in a fraction of a second

Hoffman says: “When we open our eyes, our visual system constructs in a fraction of a second all the shapes, depths, colors, motions, textures, and objects that we see. The computational power required for such construction is massive, but the construction is done so quickly that we are fooled into thinking that there is no…

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#perception #brain #computation

Computation is in the eye of the beholder

When I add two plus two to get four, that computation is not observer relative. I am doing that regardless of what anybody thinks. But when I punch: ”2+2 =”…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #computation #objectivity #brain #computer

The brain computes in parallel

The brain is massively parallel, whereas most computers compute serially. This is why the brain is so fast, despite its relatively slow machinery. The…

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #brain #connectionism #computation

The computational theory of mind

The collection of ideas that I have just explained contains the tools necessary to articulate the single most influential and powerful theory of the mind in…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #computation #cognitive-science #brain #computer-program

Fetuses turn to the outside world in late pregnancy

So the questions for prying parents become: What do fetuses know, and when do they know it? When is your baby capable of sensing, say, taps on your belly? The…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #brain #babies #development #perception

I am everything I behold

“People may sense internal organs and physiological processes usually kept out of consciousness.” That was exactly what had just happened to me when I felt I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #perception #brain #consciousness #soul #nondualism

LSD and the right hemisphere

For centuries, Western industrial society has overplayed the importance of the left hemisphere, referring to it as the major hemisphere, while systematically…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #brain #psychedelics #perception #culture