In this lecture <https://youtu.be/kcR8-Sq8dZk> Dr. Ramachandran tells
how to create an illusion. It goes like this:
Have someone place both arms and hands out straight on the table in
front of him. Place a rubber hand from the Halloween shop, (or a glove,
or even bare table will work), in between his hands but close to the
left hand. Place a mirror between his left hand and rubber hand, such
that when he looks in the direction of his left hand he'll be looking at
the reflection of the rubber hand. Prime his brain by stroking both his
left hand and rubber hand with the same motions. Then after a while,
stroke just the rubber hand, not his actual hand, and he'll feel it in
his left hand.
His sense of sight is reinforcing his sense of feel so much that he can
be fooled to think he feels something based on his sight alone. So, each
sense works as a reinforcement to each other sense, when applicable. I
believe that language, at any arrested stated in a person's development
of it, acts as a reinforcing agent in the same way.
Matt
On 10/23/15 9:01 AM, [email protected] wrote:
We see what we focus on: what we see distinguishes itself from the
visual field: the dynamic object determines the sign to determine its
interpretant. Cognition begins by making distinctions; recognition
continues with emergence of relations from the phaneron, now that
/things/ <http://gnusystems.ca/TS/cns.htm#thing> have emerged from the
phaneron.
/A road is made by people walking on it; things are so because they
are called so. /
— Chuangtse <http://gnusystems.ca/meanlist.htm#tao> 2 (Watson 1968, 40)
The chaotic background murmur and crackle of neurons firing, cells
doing what they muddily must to stay alive, organizes itself into
definite rhythmic patterns, and lo, forms emerge and begin to branch.
Presence parts from itself and proliferates as the branches take
names. But a metaphor reverses the process by unmaking a familiar
distinction, revealing a richer and stranger relationship. By thus
renewing our vision, metaphors ‘literally create new objects’ (Jaynes
1976, 50) – /immediate/ objects. Naming is creation, metaphor
recreation. “A road” is a metaphor: a road is made by people walking
on it; things are so because they are called so.
Gary f.
} Thought is not an out-of-body experience. [Mark Turner] {
http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ /Turning Signs/gateway
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