To: betty boop
If human beings detect a pattern, I am persuaded that the pattern must exist;...That pattern only exists in the perceiver's mind. It may or may not reflect anything else. Constellations are an example. There are no green and light blue blue stripes in the following:
1,332 posted on
05/04/2006 9:42:29 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
ah, you beat me to that particular rabbit-punch. good. thanks. I was thinking of the black and white reticulated field which makes the human brain synthesize non-existent grey squares at the crossings of the white lattice, but that epilepsy-inducing color field will do nicely. thanks again.
1,335 posted on
05/05/2006 12:17:04 AM PDT by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
To: Doctor Stochastic
I'm a bit confused - what am I supposed to be seeing/not seeing here??
1,359 posted on
05/05/2006 8:54:53 AM PDT by
Quark2005
(Confidence follows from consilience.)
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