THE STUFF ILLUSIONS ARE MADE

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THE STUFF ILLUSIONS ARE MADE

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Article_Title:	THE STUFF ILLUSIONS ARE MADE
Authors:	Adrian WIENER, Teodora OLARIU
Affiliation:	Spitalul Clinic Judetean Arad Clinica de Medicina Interna II, Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad
Abstract:	Optical illusions are the price to pay for making sense of our visual representation of the world. The mechanisms underlying the purpose of our visual brain – the generation of signification – are hinted by the careful cultural analysis of illusions. Viewing and understanding reality are generated on a statistical basis as a means of contending with the inherent ambiguity of the world and is hindered by the past experience of human observers. From this we infer that the utilitarian ‘view’ floods all the other cognitive attributes of our brain. The way we understand anything is inextricably linked to the way our brain perceives information. So our ‘intuitive’ understanding is predisposing to the same illusions. The fact that the ‘great leaps forward’ of our postmodern science are basically counter-intuitive (Darwinism, Einstein relativity, puzzling gődelian theorems, and quantum theory) demonstrates this eloquently. What we see and what we understand is the legacy of eons of evolution. Memetics give an attractive way of understanding human culture from this perspective.
Keywords:	optical illusions, illusions, brain, memetics
References:	, Burton Frederick. What the tortoise taught us : the story of philosophy / Burton Porter. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4422-0551-2 page 1 Daniel C. Dennett, 1995, Darwin’s dangerous idea – Evolution and the meaning of life. Published by the Penguin Group ISBN-10: 9780684824710 Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe Cambridge University Press (November 8, 2004) ISBN-10: 0521603250 Michael Shermer – The believing brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies,-How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths St. Martin’s Griffin (August 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 1250008808 Daniel C. Dennett – The intentional stance A Bradford Book; reprint edition (March 6, 1989) ISBN-10: 0262540533 Susan Blackmore Consciousness Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition 2007 ISBN-10: 0199739099 V. S. Ramachandran Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind William Morrow Paperbacks 1999 ISBN-10: 0688172172 www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html www.en.wikipedia.org
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Article Title:	THE STUFF ILLUSIONS ARE MADE
Authors:	Adrian WIENER, Teodora OLARIU
Affiliation:	Spitalul Clinic Judetean Arad Clinica de Medicina Interna II, Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad
Abstract:	Optical illusions are the price to pay for making sense of our visual representation of the world. The mechanisms underlying the purpose of our visual brain – the generation of signification – are hinted by the careful cultural analysis of illusions. Viewing and understanding reality are generated on a statistical basis as a means of contending with the inherent ambiguity of the world and is hindered by the past experience of human observers. From this we infer that the utilitarian ‘view’ floods all the other cognitive attributes of our brain. The way we understand anything is inextricably linked to the way our brain perceives information. So our ‘intuitive’ understanding is predisposing to the same illusions. The fact that the ‘great leaps forward’ of our postmodern science are basically counter-intuitive (Darwinism, Einstein relativity, puzzling gődelian theorems, and quantum theory) demonstrates this eloquently. What we see and what we understand is the legacy of eons of evolution. Memetics give an attractive way of understanding human culture from this perspective.
Keywords:	optical illusions, illusions, brain, memetics
References:	, Burton Frederick. What the tortoise taught us : the story of philosophy / Burton Porter. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4422-0551-2 page 1 Daniel C. Dennett, 1995, Darwin’s dangerous idea – Evolution and the meaning of life. Published by the Penguin Group ISBN-10: 9780684824710 Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe Cambridge University Press (November 8, 2004) ISBN-10: 0521603250 Michael Shermer – The believing brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies,-How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths St. Martin’s Griffin (August 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 1250008808 Daniel C. Dennett – The intentional stance A Bradford Book; reprint edition (March 6, 1989) ISBN-10: 0262540533 Susan Blackmore Consciousness Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition 2007 ISBN-10: 0199739099 V. S. Ramachandran Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind William Morrow Paperbacks 1999 ISBN-10: 0688172172 www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html www.en.wikipedia.org
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