There's an App for that Desire

[alice wellintown]

Some have suggested that seperating technic from science, or from
human desire or motive is not worth considering because humans are
technological, and sepaeration is not possible. In other words, to be
human is to be technological, so we can't seperate human values from
this activity. Birds fly. Humans make tools and engineer.

But we were not born with tools or cell-phones as birds were born with
wings. We were, of course, born with hands, and with these we fashined
an extension, the hammer. And we projected a world, and we built it,
and framed our view of it.

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The Carpentered Environment:

Regardless of where in the brain of the human or animals an oblique
effect is found, one would still like to know whether it is an
inevitable consequence of the way neural signals are processed, or
whether it is a minor error that nature hadn't been bothered to
correct, or whether it fulfills a function in making us better in
handling our visual environment. Proposing a "purpose" of the oblique
effect, and developing scientific support for it, is work still in
progress. A popular concept is that we live in a carpentered
environment. Attempts at empirical explanations of perceptual visual
phenomena have led to the examination of the orientation distribution
of contours in the everyday visual world.[12]

Competing explanations have to contend with questions, not yet
finalized, of innateness of horizontal/vertical superiority, of body
symmetry in anatomical organization, of methodology of measurement,
and particularly, of issues associated with perceptual development in
infants and children, and across cultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_effect


On 6/19/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> "ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the
> delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness
> they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of
> sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not
> going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything
> else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know
> and brings to light many differences between things."
>
> -Aristotle
>