And not only that, the retinal blind spot of approx 7.5 x 5.5 degrees is
automagically filled in by the brain with whatever it thinks should be
there... kinda like PhotoShop image fill. If you've ever wondered where
that car had been when it suddenly appeared of the blue it might well
have been exactly where your brain had told you it wasn't.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/28/2013 8:45 PM, DZDub wrote:
> I seem to recall that either Locke or Hume argued that the mind/imagination
> can supply a missing (unperceived) shade to fill a gap between neighboring
> shades. Empirical conundrum.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Vision
>
> Not me mate. I regard it as an intangible which we treat as if absolute. Even
> avoiding the subjective problems of colour perception, I tend to challenge
> students to tell me where colour actually exists. Mental CGI.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
> Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
>
>
>
> On 29/01/2013, at 3:25 AM, Brian Gray wrote:
>
>> But I am not sure what the view of professional Philosophers
>> is on this since in my experience there is a tendency for tutors at an
>> introductory level to regard an object's colour as an absolute
>> characteristic of the object, and have enough difficulty coping with
>> arguments about the effects of different ambient lighting.
>> But one piece of advice, be careful for a while after the operation and
>> try not to have an accident like one friend recently who went water
>> skiing too soon afterwards and suffered a bad fall.
>
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