Originally posted by Parabol
Yes it is a fact. We have a region of our brain that deals with facial recognition. I'm not going to argue whether it was designed or not.
Wise choice imo.
But this article talks about how recent findings suggest it is more of a learned trait, rather than innate. Either way, there is a part of
our brain that responds to shapes/angles/light/shadows/whatever that may indicate a face is present in the visual field. Recognizing and interpreting
facial responses is obviously a very important aspect of social interaction.
ScienceDaily: Brain Article
Agreed and there is every advantage to being able to spot the relatively familiar forms( predators, game) against a complex background so it would be
surprising not to find such areas/processes somewhere in the human brain.
Our mind DECIDES what is real and what is not. When your dreaming the most illogical things can seem normal because your brain determines the
structure or parameters of it's reality. When we're awake our brain interprets light waves and pressurized waves of air to create a 'reality'
that our conscious can navigate.
As the editing happens in the subconscious mind, and thus even before the awareness that is the conscious mind, one has to very careful as without
conscious deliberate effort you will not enabling your own involvement in hat editing process.
Your brain's never seen light or heard a sound, it's all electrical signals by the time it gets there. Our brain is quite willing to fill
in gaps, like when you only see a hand sticking out of a wall but know that an entire person is standing there.
The brain's guessing and assuming
greatly increases it's information processing but can sometimes lead you to sense something that's not entirely true.
Agreed but the alternatives seems rather problematic in my opinion
If I could even objectively use the word true or truth in this sense, it's all just perspective anyways.
I think that there is a objective reality and that it is in fact independent of perception ( not seeing or acknowledging cars on a road wont prevent
you suffering very real consequences) however far astray perception can lead you from that objective truth.
Your creativity statement is somewhat true. The creative function of the brain can draw associations between objects that may not normally be
connected. The personification of the inanimate or even a simple metaphor. Our creativity allows for imperfections and oddities to become beautiful
and unique visions.
Agreed but all that can be crushed by a conscious effort, as is the science establishment standard, when it runs into observations that contradict
current norms. A person who is not open minded ( undecided) might very well subconsciously edit certain conscious possibilities or conclusions out
of consideration before there was ever any true evaluation as the subconscious is not only powerful but completely self serving; it's comparable to
script and you were not the programmer... Our perception of reality can go as far astray as the environment allows and if the environment or social
system is set up to reward certain perceptions over others , however unrealistic or patently false, there is IMO no telling how far away from reality
the consensus can be pushed...
The brain becomes creative enough to accept that while that rock may not exactly look like a face, it shouldn't eliminate it as a possiblity.
Well it's unlikely to spot it in the first place as there is no movement; something normally associated with 'faces'. If a person regularly sees
faces in rock formations in their back yard they should probably see someone about it...
A computer would have trouble matching an imperfect copy of it's predefined face or drawing the line at the point where something looks too
odd to be a face.
I would say this depends mostly on the how restrictive the original parameters where but that a computer can normally identify forms with far greater
certainty based on a good data base or specifications.
But our mind allows us to float in the space between what may exist and what doesn't. Is it a skull? Is it a rock? We'll probably never
know but it doesn't hurt to think it could.
I would have to slightly disagree and say that some minds allow that as those are the minds that have been allowed to consider such contradictory
information without a result or conclusion being immediately required. I would go as far as to say that true genius may have much to do with how large
a volume of sometimes contradictory information or observation a mind/brain can store without a conclusion or decision as to what must be true and
what must be discarded as false...
Anyways! I enjoyed reading and thinking about your post and while my general agreement may not seem obvious i do agree and hope that my contributions
is seen and accepted as such!
Stellar
[edit on 11-12-2006 by StellarX]
