#perception

#perception

Awareness is both pervasive and subtle. Paradoxically, it is at once everywhere and seemingly nowhere. It's everywhere because you can't experience anything outside of awareness, pretty much by definition. In every direction, everything you see, hear, and feel is happening in awareness. You can't step out of awareness to see what the world would be like from outside it. Yet, because it's so omnipresent, it's easy to take for granted and miss.

All of Wise's subjects are looking up, though it's not clear at what - she suggests angels, and has cited El Greco's The Vision of Saint John as an influence - or perhaps UFOs, which constitute another of her "long-held fascinations."

This phenomenon is referred to as selective attention, and a famous study designed by Simons and Chabris (1999) demonstrated it quite well. For their research, these scientists showed a video to student volunteers featuring players passing basketballs back and forth, one team in white t-shirts, and the other team in black t-shirts. The viewers were instructed to count the passes between players wearing the white t-shirts.

"The man (person) behind the camera" refers to an observer or witness not only to the surrounding world, but also to one's own sensations, feelings, impulses, instincts, thoughts, and experiences. Seeing more than their external and internal environments, this observer has a higher level of awareness, the cognitive awareness of awareness, or meta-awareness. Within the animal world, humans have been described as uniquely being aware of being aware.

Emerging from the artist's meditative practice of lake kayaking, these compositions channel the phenomenology of being adrift: the body poised between two planes - sky above, reflection below - while light and color collapse the distinction between horizon and self. For Walhimer, kayaking is not simply recreation but a way of seeing, a durational practice that turns sky and water into an expanded field of perception.

How do you know you exist? Seeing, hearing, loving, fearing, dreading, dreaming, imagining. Those are all different types of conscious experience. When I see something or hear something, my supposition is, of course, that this is reality, but it's not reality. All we see and all we hear and all we touch, etc, is always mediated by our senses and through our brains. That is very much different in each individual.

As a runner, I have often imagined what it would be like to have super speed like the Flash or Quicksilver. Unfortunately for my super speed dreams, Kyle Hill has presented the fatal flaws of super speed. But while Hill did consider the problem of perception, he seems to have missed one practical problem with being a super speedster and that is how mentally exhausting (and boring) running a super speed could be. Kant can help explain this problem.

The exploration of color has deep implications for art, physics, and perception that date back centuries, engaging thinkers from Isaac Newton to contemporary scientists.

When we think of 'digital product design', it's tempting to frame it in terms of usability, engagement, or revenue. But those are surface-level outputs. Underneath, design decisions are time-shaping mechanisms.

The most obvious, omnipresent realities are often the hardest to see. For me, autism is that water; the invisible medium through which I experience life.

The apparatus uses optical principles combined with reverse engineering algorithms to disrupt the scanner's perception, intertwining tangible events, recorded fictions, and imagined scenes to blur the line between authenticity and artifice.

'With Every Step' consists of 146 wooden poles arranged to form an anamorphic message, visible only from a specific vantage point, emphasizing spatial engagement.

The ability to change one's perception is a key avenue to innovation. We need to break away from what is known to discover the unknown.

The definition of 'objective' versus 'subjective' can help categorize experiences based on their ability to represent the physical world accurately or inaccurately.

The philosopher Keith Frankish managed to turn a pickle jar into a profound question: What was your visual experience like when you first opened the fridge? Was there a blank in the middle of your visual field?

Our brains are wired to connect dots, even when they don't exist, and we're surprisingly poor at distinguishing between dramatized entertainment and objective reality.

The brain is a prediction machine and our perceptual experiences consist of our prior experiences as well as new data.

The future doesn't need more problem-solvers. It needs more perceptual designers.