> In the case of the moving train, I think its interesting to note that
> your EYES trick you into thinking that you're moving
not so, your eyes simply pass electrical impulses to you brain, which in
turn tells you what is going on. Your eyes are like a receptionist, your
brain is the manager (you).
>One sense was fooled , but another sense quickley reveals the fact that
> you're not really in motion.
Again, not so. when the other senses start detecting data, your brain has
more to go on so can make a far more inciteful decision aobut what is going
on. eg, it is not possible to tellme exactly what is happening in a tv
program with the sound turned down. therefore you dont know what is going
on. you can make a guess but you dont know. turn the sound on, and you
know. your eyes performed no trickery, your brain was simply unable to
provide full analysis of what was happening.
> I mean it seems there must be a distinction between the impression
> made by a thousand tiny clues being added up in some unconscious way,
> what I'd call intuition, and true "extra-sensory" perception, a kind of
> "vision" totally unrelated to the biological senses. I can't think of a
> single example, but such a thing must exist in our experience.
not so, i know people who can tell what is going on with a person just by
looking at the back of their heads on a bus. there are VERY few clues to
piece together there so i dont think it works like that. There was an
experiment on a tv program a few years ago (presented by david frost, i
think it was called the world of the unknown) in which they did a test in
which 100 people were tested as follows. you put them in a black room. you
play music in their ears so they cant hear. one other person enters the
room. 50% of the time, the subject ended up facing the person in the room
with them (who was looking at them). how do you explain that? there surely
are no clues to be pieced together.
>
> Recall Pirsig's ideas about how the cultural immune system can prevent
> us from seeing things, can actually trick our eyes? He used the
> dharmakaya light and the green flash as examples. It makes me wonder
> what else might be erased from our sight.
the eyes require 7 photons to enter them per second before they tell the
brain they see light. strange but true.
> I wonder what Pirsig would answer if asked about biology's role when we
> "sense" Quality.
i'd like to know that myself.
Rich.
MOQ Online Homepage - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Unsubscribe - http://www.moq.org/md/index.html
MD Queries - horse@wasted.demon.nl
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:03:11 BST