"Really See" With Our Brains
FRED P. ANDERSON; DEPT. OF MGMT.& MKTG. (ANDERSON@grove.iup.edu)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 22:39:47 -0500 (EST)
Ivan Blanco's observation that we "really see" with our brains is, of
course, correct. (And, as he phrased it, more Gestalt-ic.) I am gradually
going deaf, and one of the interesting features of that is that I am normally
unaware of it. Particularly, my brain takes the incoming aural signal, blurred
though it must be, and assigns it some meaning which seems to me to have been
clearly heard. The only hint I have that something's wrong is that the
assigned meaning is often wildly out-of-synch with what I know to be happening.
(Interestingly, the disjuncture is frequently funny.) This evening my office
mate (whose love life at the moment is a great disappointment and frustration
to him) was speaking of fairy tales as stories we tell to "scare the kids." I
suspected I had it wrong when I heard him say they were to "steal a kiss."
Fred Anderson
Indiana Univ. of PA
anderson@grove.IUP.edu