2010-10-17 15:37:18Michelle
大腦
"Perceptual psychologists seek to understand how the brain translates
elementary sensations into conscious perception. Our entire experience
of the world relies on this translation process. Although perceiving
seems effortless, it relies on numerous active processes that work together
to construct our experience. Our senses gather information from relatively
limited sources of physical energy. We hear few of the available sound
waves, for example, and see only a small portion of the electromagnetic
spectrum. But our experience does not feel limited, because our perceptual
systems allow us to perform the tasks necessary for both survival and
reproduction...With the advent of new technologies for studying the brain,
the urgency of these efforts has increased. Perhaps the twenty-first centur
will yield answers to two of humankind's most enduring questions: How do we
know our world? And how are mental events realized in the brain's physical
events?"
(from Psychological Science, Gazziniga, Michael et.al, p.231)
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念書時看到這一段突然有種感動
怎麼從sensation被translate成perception?
我們的大腦是一台不會出錯的翻譯機
他是機器 卻有靈性
我們所以為的外在世界,其實也是建構在自己的感覺->知覺上
沒有這樣的translation,就沒有"our world"這概念.
而且而且
他還不只做這些
為什麼聽到一段歌會因為共鳴而落下淚?
為什麼聞到外婆做的菜總像回到小時候?
想到自己裡面就有一個這麼神奇的物體
真的 沒有他 就沒有我
可是他又不只屬於我的 還屬於這個家庭 這個環境 這個文化的
Amazing.
Thank You(L)