Vlad:> Don't you know about change blindness and the like? You don't
actually
see all these details, it's delusional. You only get the gist of the
scene, according to current context that forms the focus of your
attention. Amount of information you extract from watching a movie is
not dramatically bigger than what you extract from reading a book.
Vlad,
Are you seriously trying to tell me that science knows how we see? You've
actually just stated a set of huge assumptions, right? For argument's sake,
you might be right. But that last sentence is plucked out of thin air,
right? You can barely begin to account for what those 30 odd areas of visual
cortex are doing, or how much detail and what detail they are extracting
from scenes. And Ai systems are not much better than blind.
I suggest you're uncharacteristically leaping to an absurdly audacious
position here - and the only reason can be prejudice. The truth is that as a
culture we are just at the beginning of visual/cinematic literacy, and
knowing how to think about movies - something that is about to change v.
radically in the next 10 years, as for the 1st time it becomes as easy for
everyone to manipulate a movie, as it became to handle the printed book.
That last sentence of yours is an old-style literate mind talking - you
extract a huge amount of info. from a movie - you just aren't aware of it,
because you don't begin to know how to analyse it - there are no words for
that info.
How do you think a person can fall in love with another person in just a few
minutes of talking to them (or not even talking at all)? How does their
brain get them to do that - without the person having any conscious
understanding of why they're falling? By analysis of a few words that the
other person says (& what if they don't say anything at all)? Well, if you
don't know how that process works, then maybe there's a lot else here you
don't know - and it might be better to keep an open mind.
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