On 3/7/2013 6:09 PM, Terren Suydam wrote:
The same way it explains it for humans. The cat is not sensing the
world directly, but the constructions created by its brain.
Hi Terren,
I almost agree, I only add that it is not just the brain of the cat
(or human or whatever) that is being sensed, the mind is involved in the
construction as well.
Those constructions involve shortcuts of various kinds (e.g. edge
detection) optimized for the kinds of environments that cats have
thrived in, from an evolutionary standpoint. Those shortcuts are what
lead to optical illusions. Optical illusions are stimuli that expose
the shortcuts for what they are. There is nothing about the fact that
it's a cat that makes this any harder to explain in mechanistic terms.
Sure, and the mind as well.
It is interesting because it suggests that cats employ at least one of
the same shortcuts as we do, which further suggests that the visual
optimizations that lead to optical illusions are much older than
humans. And while that is not a very controversial claim, it is cool
to have some evidence for it.
Yes, I have to show this to my friends that are studying pattern
recognition.
Terren
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Stephen P. King <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 3/7/2013 11:36 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
I have no doubt that Craig will somehow see this as a vindication
of his theory and a refutation of mechanism.
Terren
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Stephen P. King
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CcXXQ6GCUb8
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Hi Terren,
How does Mechanism explain this? Will /The Amazing Randy/
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi> be pushed forward to
loudly claim that the cat was really chasing a laser dot that the
video camera could not capture?
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Onward!
Stephen
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