LING 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Falsifiability, White Noise, Auditory Scene Analysis
8 Dec 2013
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Even when a triangle doesn"t exist and only 3 pacman shapes do, our mind will construct a white triangle and fill in the lines where it"s blank. Human visual system interprets certain stimuli in such a way as to construct a representation of a triangle. The triangle is not a physical property of the page, but is a result of how you process physical stimuli like this page under certain circumstances (eg. when it"s not too dark to read etc. ) Your mind imposes the triangle interpretation on the page. One could say that if the edges aren"t real, the triangle itself cannot be real. We can construct other figures that we have no names for. It is hard to get an artificial system to recognize these constructed shapes, which further goes to show that it is our mind"s rules and interpretation that allows us to perceive the shapes.
