Download or read book The Enigma of Perception written by D. L. C. Maclachlan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.
Download or read book Understanding Pain written by Fernando Cervero and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert explores the biological and emotional nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad. If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologically—and emotionally? In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. When you touch something hot, your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand, protecting you from injury. That kind of pain, Cervero explains, is actually good for us; it acts as an alarm that warns us of danger and keeps us away from harm. But, Cervero tells us, not all pain is good for you. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. This is the kind of pain that fills pain clinics and makes life miserable. Cervero describes current research into the mysteries of chronic pain and efforts to develop more effective treatments. Cervero reminds us that pain is the most common reason for people to seek medical attention, but that it remains a biological enigma. It is protective, but not always. Its effects are not only sensory but also emotional. There is no way to measure it objectively, no test that comes back positive for pain; the only way a medical professional can gauge pain is by listening to the patient's description of it. The idea of pain as a test of character or a punishment to be borne is changing; prevention and treatment of pain are increasingly important to researchers, clinicians, and patients. Cervero's account brings us closer to understanding the meaning of pain.
Download or read book The Enigma of the Treatise written by Gianfranco Dioguardi and published by Chartridge Books Oxford. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange and anonymous pamphlet was published in 1740 and the ensuing quest to determine its authorship has, centuries later, given rise to a fascinating sequence of events. The protagonists are two celebrated economists - Keynes and Sraffa - as is David Hume, who is discovered to be the nameless author of the pamphlet. The episode isreconstructed here.
Download or read book Perception written by Nicola Bruno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the position of our body in space. Likewise, how we experience food depends on sensory signals originating from the mouth, but also from nose signals, and even vision and hearing. However, traditional books on perception still discuss each of the “senses” separately. This book takes a different stance: it defines perception as intrinsically multisensory from the start and examines multisensory interactions as key process behind how we perceive our own body, control its movements, perceive and recognise objects, respond to edible objects, perceive space, and perceive time. In addition, the book discusses multisensory processing in synaesthesia, multisensory attention, and the role of multisensory processing in learning. As an introduction to multisensory perception, this book is essential reading for students in psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience at the advanced undergraduate to postgraduate levels. As the chapters address topics that are often left out of standard textbooks, this book will also serve as a useful reference for specialist perception scientists and clinicians. Finally, as a monograph understandable to the educated non-specialist this book will also be of interest to professionals who need to take into account multisensory processing in domains such as, for instance, physiotherapy, neurological rehabilitation, human-computer interfaces, marketing, or the design of products and services.
Download or read book The Enigma of the Visible written by Lynn Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research for this project is embodied in a series of paintings, drawings, sculptures/installations and photographs which are reproduced in the Appendix, a selection of around 260 works executed in the period of the research from 2000-09. The exegesis, which accompanies the research, documents some of the process, thinking and speculative cultural background of the visual work. The writing is loosely structured around the bodies of work; but because the preoccupations of each work tend to overlap and interlock, there is necessarily a degree of weaving and interpenetrating thematic material. In the first chapter, 'Themes and method of the visual project-looking back in the context of the origin of the research', I contemplate the simple beginnings in my fascination with water and speculate on the miraculous phenomenon of visual sensation and its relationship to the content and motivation in my work. With reference to history I probe the rapture, which has pushed me, often compulsively, in the directions that I took. Simultaneously I seek relevance in artists, which let me be open and experimental in my process using materials disparate to my main medium of paint. In the second chapter, 'The fugitive zone of perceptual experience-gaps and enigmas', I describe and engage with the conundrums of nailing down the very different aspects of experience and cognition or the attempt at knowing what it is one has visually experienced. Words are at best a second hand kind of surmise or illustration, yet paradoxically necessary to exploring the differences between conception, perception and innovative synthesis (which seeks to respond to both in an amicable manner of process and method). The challenge is recognized at all times: to stop the process through a kind of conceptualizing or to remain in a dance between the two, which becomes a method in itself. In the third chapter, 'The agency of metaphor by making-subjective and inextricable', I broach the complicated question of art making. I discuss the evocative nature of subject matter and making subjective representational art. Sifting what attracts and inspires, I demonstrate how I allowed and encouraged myself to go iv outside the general form of my practice using materials as metaphor and paradigm for that which was pushing me to discover. The studio practice involves huge amounts of time, which are not necessarily guaranteed to be productive. In allowing these risks, the researcher needs to trust a practice, which I further discuss in the next chapter. In the fourth chapter, 'Curiosity in the process-adventure in living it', I consider the moment to moment surprise and new directions which I feel enrich the life of the artist even if the elements are ultimately left behind as a representation of that person. I seek to identify the cause and effect relationship between the proactive nature of studio research and the subsequent aesthetic experiences of the outcome. In the fifth chapter, under the title of 'Iridescence, association and closure-an obsessional dance with experience', I contemplate a kind of iridescence that happens in the mind as I either contemplate the difference between subject and object or engage in a studio contemplation process, which has me traversing in search of paradigms and metaphors for observed phenomena. I find that the closer I get to something, the more mysterious and elusive and abstract existing phenomena seem. It is finally in the painting itself that the test or evidence is fed back to me as I traverse the artistic processes that arise from seeing. In the sixth chapter, 'Toward a language of perception-contemplating the introversion of understanding experience', I examine further the role of perception in drawing and seek to find ways to talk about it and the relationship between movement and stasis, energy and expression, the constant flux between the appearance and existence of reality and the actuality of it. I examine cultural memory and the history of ideas, which pervades and even pollutes (perhaps nobly) while putting pressure on the work. The nature and structure of appearance are examined, where phenomena come together to make form, the foundation of imagery, where light reflects on something and changes the colour of that thing. With the seventh chapter, 'Closeness to experience-or is it just enigmatic?' I allow myself various conjectures concerning the phenomenology of imagination. I devote special attention to imagination as it is renewed in experience through subjective, developmental manipulation of ideas and materials and the ultimate meaning and significance assigned to them. In the eighth chapter, 'The role of the provisional', I seek to describe the territory that informed me and my research, along with examples of work from a broad v spectrum of other artists. These are represented in two - and three-dimensional meanderings, interwoven with speculation on the visual phenomena of seeing with all its mystery and at least unified by historical context. I show their expression of theme and variation in different modes with similar concerns. I include in this the synthesis of studio research from 2000-03 culminating in the sculpture Intersect, 2003. Notions on working outside or having the work informed by out-of-doors experience are returned to in the following chapter. In the ninth chapter, The conceptual en plein air', I attempt to make the case that when working en plein air one quickly realizes that there is a constant challenge to habitual thinking which rests in conceptual processes. I find that perceptual experience fully engaged with, has the potential of renewal, which can have a motivational focus. I explore the dialog between what we see as reality and appearance within the artistic process, thus clarifying the thinking of a representational artist who seeks to avoid a contrived style of expression. Finally, in the 'Conclusion', I sum up the case, especially with regard to the mood of the project as a whole, and look to see how these experiences have informed my final exhibition and the appendix enclosed as Volume II. Ideas are still being generated as I write for new works, for which I have to credit the research process, which I now appreciate with new transparency. The exegesis is structured in response to a synthesis of reading and studio research. It is a demonstration of the breadth of ideas, which the research context encouraged. This thesis presents a visual view of my studio process and the thoughts that arise as a consequence of reading and especially the awareness that arose while engaging in the process of making the work. Throughout, questions of method are tackled, given that all works in their origin and commencement are established in experiences very different to lexical processes: they are first perceptual and then related to aspects of feeling as it ignites thought and the subsequent actions of making the work, even though these processes may be unhappily conditioned by conceptual notions and the milieu that they exist in. Knowing which ideas remain pure in the phenomenological sense of original perception in the individual, and which are inevitably touched by cultural notions, is helpful in formulating new projects.
Download or read book The Enigma of the Mind written by Sergio Moravia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid critical and historical survey of one of the fundamental debates in the philosophy of mind - the relationship of mind and body. This problem continues to raise deep questions concerning the nature of man. The book has two central aims. First, Professor Moravia sketches the major recent contributions to the mind/body problem from philosophers of mind. Having established this framework Professor Moravia pursues his second aim - the articulation of a particular interpretation of the mental and the mind-body problem. The book's detailed and systematic treatment of this fundamental philosophical issue make it ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. It should also prove provocative reading for psychologists and cognitive scientists.
Download or read book Joseph Cornell written by Jason Edwards and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays collected here derive from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, entitled 'Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Joseph Cornell', which was held at the AHRC Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and Its Legacies at the University of Essex between 17 and 19 September, 2003"--P. [9].
Download or read book Perception Metaphors written by Laura J. Speed and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and relatively concrete—should be an ideal source domain in metaphor, and a less likely target. But is this the case across diverse languages? And are some sensory modalities perhaps more concrete than others? This volume presents critical new data on perception metaphors from over 40 languages, including many which are under-studied. Aside from the wealth of data from diverse languages—modern and historical; spoken and signed—a variety of methods (e.g., natural language corpora, experimental) and theoretical approaches are brought together. This collection highlights how perception metaphor can offer both a bedrock of common experience and a source of continuing innovation in human communication.
Download or read book The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions written by Arthur Gilman Shapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --
Download or read book Lectures on Perception written by Michael T. Turvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
Download or read book Enigma written by Peter Milligan and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENIGMA is a thought-provoking post-modern tale of self-discovery and sexual identity told against the backdrop of improbable super-heroes and villains. Michael Smith lives a meaningless life of routine and boredom. But when Enigma, his favorite childhood comic book hero, inexplicably comes to life, Smith finds himself on an obsessive crusade to uncover the secret behind his improbable existence. Teaming with Enigma's comic creator, Smith encounters an insanity-inducing psychopath, a brain-eating serial killer, and a suicide-inciting clown posse as his quest uncovers hidden truths about both his idol and himself. This new edition of the Vertigo classic is written by Peter Milligan (JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, RED LANTERNS) with kinetic art by Duncan Fegredo (SHADE THE CHANGING MAN). Collects ENIGMA #1-8.
Download or read book The Essential Husserl written by Edmund Husserl and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Husserl, the first anthology in English of Edmund Husserl's major writings, provides access to the scope of his philosophical studies, including selections from his key works: Logical Investigations, Ideas I and II, Formal and Transcendental Logic, Experience and Judgment, Cartesian Meditations, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, and On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. The collection is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in twentieth-century philosophy.
Download or read book No More Silent written by James Alex Walker and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "No More Silent," immerse yourself in a chilling psychological thriller that delves deep into the enigmatic recesses of the human mind. This haunting tale weaves a web of suspense, secrets, and unexpected revelations that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Alicia Berenson, a talented and celebrated painter, is living a seemingly idyllic life with her devoted husband, Gabriel. But one fateful evening, her world is shattered when she shoots her husband in the face and then retreats into absolute silence. A traumatic event that seemingly defies explanation leaves those around her bewildered and desperate for answers. Enter Theo Faber, a skilled psychotherapist with a relentless determination to unravel the mystery behind Alicia's silence. As he delves into her enigmatic past, he uncovers a series of complex relationships, hidden traumas, and buried emotions. Along the way, Theo becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that blurs the lines between observer and participant and raises unsettling questions about the nature of truth and perception.
Download or read book The World in Your Head written by Steven M. Lehar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about the brain. Through this analysis, the first and most obvious observation is that consciousness appears as a volumetric spatial void, containing colored objects and surfaces. This reveals that the representation in the brain takes the form of an explicit volumetric spatial model of external reality. Therefore, the world we see around us is not the real world itself, but merely a miniature virtual-reality replica of that world in an internal representation. In fact, the phenomena of dreams and hallucinations clearly demonstrate the capacity of the brain to construct complete virtual worlds even in the absence of sensory input. Perception is somewhat like a guided hallucination, based on sensory stimulation. This insight allows us to examine the world of visual experience not as scientists exploring the external world, but as perceptual scientists examining a rich and complex internal representation. This unique approach to investigating mental function has implications in a wide variety of related fields, including the nature of language and abstract thought, and motor control and behavior. It also has implications to the world of music, art, and dance, showing how the patterns of regularity and periodicity in space and time--apparent in those aesthetic domains--reflect the periodic basis set of the underlying harmonic resonance representation in the brain.
Download or read book Visual Perception Part 1 written by Susana Martinez-Conde and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. Each section addresses one of the main topics in vision research today. Volume 1 Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception covers topics from receptive field analyses to shape perception and eye movements. A variety of methodological approaches are represented, including single-neuron recordings, fMRI and optical imaging, psychophysics, eye movement characterization and computational modelling. The contributions will provide the reader with a valuable perspective on the current status of vision research, and more importantly, with critical insight into future research directions and the discoveries yet to come.· Provides a detailed breakdown of the neural and psychophysical bases of Perception · Presents never-before-published original discoveries · Includes multiple full-color illustrations
Download or read book Autism and the Crisis of Meaning written by Alexander Durig and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive understanding of the informal logics of meaningful perception and autistic perception, which promises to pave the way for social scientists to begin addressing the subjective human experience in logical terms.
Download or read book Quantum Enigma written by Bruce Rosenblum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and anecdotes about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, emphasizing what is and what is not speculation. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what it all means, however, is heatedly controversial. But every interpretation of quantum physics involves consciousness. Rosenblum and Kuttner therefore turn to exploring consciousness itself--and encounter quantum mechanics. Free will and anthropic principles become crucial issues, and the connection of consciousness with the cosmos suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. Readers are brought to a boundary where the particular expertise of physicists is no longer the only sure guide. They will find, instead, the facts and hints provided by quantum mechanics and the ability to speculate for themselves. In the few decades since the Bell's theorem experiments established the existence of entanglement (Einstein's "spooky action"), interest in the foundations, and the mysteries, of quantum mechanics has accelerated. In recent years, physicists, philosophers, computer engineers, and even biologists have expanded our realization of the significance of quantum phenomena. This second edition includes such advances. The authors have also drawn on many responses from readers and instructors to improve the clarity of the book's explanations.
