How the Brain Organizes Everything We See 83
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a UC Berkeley news release:
"Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that the brain is wired to put in order all the categories of objects and actions that we see. They have created the first interactive map of how the brain organizes these groupings."
Re:So Kant Was Right (Score:2, Insightful)
This does not prove the categories are a priori. There were only 5 subjects who all had similar history (upbringing in the modern western world). That is not empirical evidence, at best it is a suggestion.
Re:Please ask google and apple to support webgl (Score:5, Insightful)
Here, for the browser deficient:
Warning:This page uses WebGL, an experimental web technology. It will not work in all browsers or on all platforms. For the best experience we recommend using Google Chrome, maximizing the size of your browser window, and closing other running applications (this viewer takes quite a bit of RAM).
It's data intensive and would likely turn your iPhone into a spot welder for the second or two it would take to trash the battery. Some things need REAL COMPUTERS(TM) to work well.
Re:My brain (Score:2, Insightful)
Puts boobs top of the list
Technically speaking, large mammary glands are just an evolutionary trick to get the male of the species to..., Whoa! Would you get a load of those Ta-Tas!!!...
Ahem, uh, where was I, oh yeah. Female breasts are really just mounds of fat tissue... Aw jeez, those are NICE!!
No necessarily how "we" see (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Please ask google and apple to support webgl (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Please ask google and apple to support webgl (Score:2, Insightful)
You are confused. The job is NOT the visualization. The job is doing the research and publishing the results. The visualization is something extra that is not being paid for. If you want a different visualization, you pay for it.
Not to mention that as others have said, sometimes having better performance is more important than having it work on your toys.