Didn't read it as it was behind a paywall.
Brent
On 9/5/2019 9:58 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
And what about the paper in Scientific American? Is it also about a
pseudo-problem? If not, what is the difference?
Evgenii
Am 04.09.2019 um 21:59 schrieb 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List:
On 9/3/2019 12:32 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
It looks like this is yet another virtual world theory, cf.
A Cartoon Epistemology by Steve Lehar
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html
This is a pseudo-problem created by taking one view (parallel lines
converge at infinity) and contrasting it to another view (parallel
lines look parallel) as though the first was "real". Obviously what
pattern in on your retina is interpreted, and that the parallel lines
are interpreted as parallel is the useful, shareable one.
Brent
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