There are visual and mental blind spots, and this is very important to realize. Just as there are gestalt images that can be seen only one of two ways at a time, there are analogues in thought. Depending on your presuppositions in thought, or what you choose as ground or figure in vision, you will see one image or thought to the exclusion of others.
Your quality may not be mine. And interestingly, there is a biological reason for the blind spot in the eye. Its the place where the nerves are bundled together and exit the eye, so there are no receptors in that part of the retina. There is a most amazing visual illusion I've seen before. In a half sphere, the inside made of a polished mirror, actually it looks like a dish or a ball with a small hole at the top. If you put a small object at the bottom of the bowl and close the two halves, it looks EXACTLY like the object at the bottom is sitting on top of the thing. You only realize it is not a real physical object when you try to grab it or put your finger through it. I mean it is a real object but it is at the bottom of the bowl and appears to be sitting on the top! It's perfectly 3 dimensional two, just floatin there in mid air, identical visually, to a real object. There's something about our ability to recognize patterns given only a few bits of information, that makes our senses and our mind very vulnerable to deceit. Nature thrives by deceit. Our very intelligence makes us vulnerable to deception which really is interesting when you remember that the fall of man happened when he ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. With this knowledge, he became vulnerable to deception. And in the Bible this vulnerability to deception is connected to human wickedness. "The hear to man is desperately wicked, deceitful above all things, who can know it! That's why I like DW Christian based philosophy that shows that all thought is driven by motives of the heart. Jon On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>wrote: > Strange, I linked to that very page 4 years ago. > http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1321 > > Anyway, "bias blind spot" I'd guess ? > > Ian > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ;Group. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of > > > > Mindgame, try to find the one my eye filtered out; tip, the endparagraph > of zam > > observe! > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
