On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: > At 07:47 PM 8/21/2012, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > >> Humans are very good a filling in the dots. I suspect the ability to >> interpret (and particularly to extrapolate) one’s immediate surroundings was >> probably a very good survival trait in which to pass on from generation to >> generation. When one is peering through thick foliage and wondering if those >> odd looking black and orange vertical strips might belong to a tiger, or >> not… your progeny will thank you, if you’re lucky enuf to have any. >> > > Yes. It's a blessing and a curse. "The human being is a meaning-making > machine." We are quite good at it. The fly in the ointment comes when we > believe that the intepretations we invent are real. They are *useful*, > sometimes, but they aren't real. A collection of pixels is a collection of > pixels. It is not the thing portrayed, it is neither true nor false, it is > what it is.
In this scene from Solaris (1972) http://youtu.be/YARi25_5Egw the meaning of sleep, dreams and space exploration is considered . Harry
