Posted in Illusions, The Brain from 25000 Feet, The Vision Revolution, tagged brain from 25000 feet, changizi, curved space, Illusions, non-euclidean, vision revolution on June 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or differential geometry, but you cannot grasp curved space in your bones…for the obvious reason that, in our everyday human-level world, space is flat, and so we have a brain for thinking flat.
Or, at least, that’s what they say.
Posted in The Brain from 25000 Feet, tagged the brain from 25000 feet on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am excited to announce that this week my new book appeared. There’s the cover, just above. It is called The Brain from 25000 Feet (Springer), and is about my research discoveries on brain complexity, animal shapes, illusions, the vagueness of natural language, and the riddle of induction. What! You didn’t know I was working on this [...]
