An Optical Illusion Writ Large?
By alethea |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc Anamorphosis: A distorted projection or drawing which appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens. How might our brains perceive a cone ...
Read More Alzheimer’s
By alethea |
What if the body—the cell—like the universe, has a catabolic and an anabolic rate. But it is easier for us to peg the rates of catabolism and anabolism to each ...
Read More Through a Glass Darkly
By alethea |
Some physicists and philosophers believe that the material world we observe with our senses is emergent. If matter is not fundamental to a universe, the materialist model we currently use ...
Read More How’d I Get Better?
By alethea |
My current understanding is that illness is tied to my body’s understanding of light and time. Diseases of the central nervous system may ultimately be found to involve dysfunction in ...
Read More Given Freely, But Not Free
By alethea |
These ideas ask something of us. They ask that we recognize our common humanity, that we care for one another, and that we treat each other with love. One person ...
Read More A Radical Shift
By alethea |
What cognitive science has to say about the world we perceive with our senses is, in my opinion, on par with the most profound revolutions in scientific history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY&list=PLBDwvhxSE6PNWNFz7f2pXtt4_ZYa6q1n7&index=16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo ...
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