Mind's Eye

I was listening to NPR's Science Friday today and this caught my attention. It's all about perception. There's a part of me that's just a science geek that loves this sort of thing. But there's always a piece of me that thinks about perception from the artist's point of view. How do we perceive, and what does the way we perceive have to do with how we make our art? The part of me that's the science geek doesn't really care if there is an answer to the question, and the artist part of me doesn't care if there's an answer either, as long as there is a question.

It's really interesting that for weird formatting reasons, the text above came out like that. I love it, in reference to the whole subject of this post, which is perception. Here is what it says: I was listening to NPR's Science Friday today and this caught my attention. It's all about perception. There's a part of me that's just a science geek that loves this sort of thing. But there's always a piece of me that thinks about perception from the artist's point of view. How do we perceive, and what does the way we perceive have to do with how we make our art? The part of me that's the science geek doesn't really care if there is an answer to the question, and the artist part of me doesn't care if there's an answer either, as long as there is a question. But check out the video. It's interesting that in order to hold onto a manageable perception of our environment, our minds only focus on a tiny portion of that environment, but make us believe that we still experiencing the whole thing.

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Priming The Mind's Eye

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French philosopher Henri Bergson has a famous quote: "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." Bergson probably meant it metaphorically, but it seems to be literally true according to research by psychologist Martin Rolfs and colleagues. Rolfs studies the role of rapid eye movements in visual perception. shot, produced by flora lichtman, additional imagery prelinger archives, martin rolfs. french man: david zax.