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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago
Philosophy

Break Free Of Your Own Reality Bubble

Every organism experiences a unique, limited reality—an umwelt—shaped by sensory apparatus and, for humans, by culture, geography, language, and experience.
fromAeon
3 months ago
Philosophy

Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays

Perception and action are shaped by context, species-specific sensory limits, bodily abilities, and changing environments.
fromAeon
3 months ago
Philosophy

Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays

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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Seeing What We Can't See

The word we focused on was scotoma, a term from ophthalmology that means a patch of blindness in the field of sight. Every human eye has one. It is the point where the optic nerve exits the retina and no image can form. We do not see the hole because the brain fills it in. Ralph Levinson, a retired ophthalmologist and our guest that week, called this "a profound statement on life and cognition."
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