What do you think?
Rate this book
332 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
But the other person has a surface that reflects light, and the information to specify what he or she is, invites, promises, threatens, or does can be found in the light.
Ever since someone peeled off the back of the excised eye of a slaughtered ox and, holding it up in front of a scene, observed a tiny, coloured, inverted image of the scene on the transparent retina, we have been tempted to draw a false conclusion. We think of the image as something to be seen, a picture on a screen. You can see it if you take out the ox’s eye, so why shouldn’t the ox see it? The fallacy ought to be evident.An iconoclast, and a pace-setter for neurobiological and psychological researchers after him.