Poker Face—"Our Eyes Don't Know How To Move"
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Apr 28 09:22:51 CDT 2010
Jonah Lehrer's posting at "The Frontal Cortex" blog begins by
discussing Poker Faces and sunglasses at night and then wanders over
to AtD territory:
. . .I think experiments like this also explain why it's so much
harder to understand quantum mechanics, or string theory. (I'm
referring to an intuitive, visceral kind of understanding. As Niels
Bohr once said, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory
has not understood it.") We simply weren't built to think about
wave-particle duality, or the possibility of 11 hidden
dimensions. It makes no sense to us. Our eyes don't know how
to move.
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/04/poker_face.php
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