2008/12/11 Mike Tintner <tint...@blueyonder.co.uk>: > But an image/movie can only be compared with a verbal statement in terms of > what it *actually shows* - the *surface, visible action.* His actual, > observable dialogue and gestures and expressions - that and only that is > what a movie records with high fidelity..
But does the movie really record those things? What the movie actually records is a particular pattern of photons hitting a receptor over a period of time. Things such as gestures and expressions are concepts which you're superimposing into the pattern of photons that you're observing. To a large extent you're able to perform this superposition because you yourself have similar and familiar dynmaics. If you prefer you can consider the process of interpreting the movie as a sort of error correction, similar to the way that error correcting codes are able to fill in and restore missing or corrupted information. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
