Scientist gears up to evaluate Facilitator's art? [image: Researchers from Melbourne used electroencephalography technology (EEG) to measure the electrical activity of people’s brains while they looked at different pictures. From the results, the researchers said they could predict, from a participant’s brain activity, how exciting they found a particular image to be] On Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:33:24 UTC+1, archytas wrote: > > > > This photograph looks rather mundane. It has been widely posted under the > title 'Why America is not prepared for an ebola outbreak'. The rolled up > sleeves on the hasmat suit being the cue. > > On Friday, 3 October 2014 15:34:28 UTC+1, archytas wrote: >> >> Enactive theories of imagery may be seen as modern successors to the *motor >> theories* of the early twentieth century. They depend the idea that >> *perception* is not mere passive receptivity (or even receptivity plus >> inner processing), but a form of action, something *done* by the >> organism. The literature is legion. The perceiving organism is not merely >> registering but exploring and *asking questions* of its environment, >> actively and intentionally (though not necessarily with conscious volition) >> seeking out the answers in the sensory stimuli that surround it. Imagery >> is then experienced when someone persists in acting out the seeking of some >> particular information even though they cannot reasonably expect it to be >> there. We have imagery of, say, a cat, when we go through (some of) the >> motions of looking at something and determining that it is a cat, even >> though there is no cat (and perhaps nothing relevant at all) there to be >> seen. Visually imagining a cat is seeing nothing-in-particular *as* a >> cat. >> >> I'd have a bet that Facil could sketch my cat, a fluffy black and white >> ball of haughty 'evil' with claws and purring schemer leading me and two >> dogs a merry dance of Salome to get a midnight feast share. >> >
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