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Illusory Straight Gaze can Induce a stare-in-the-Crowd Effect (Page 89) Hirokazu Doi (Nagasaki University) Kazuhiro Ueda (The University of Tokyo)

Mar 29th

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Searching for a perceived stare in the crowd

Gaze direction can be represented in terms not only of local-feature information (ie the location of the pupil in the eye socket), but also of an emergent property—whether the perceived gaze direction is straight or averted. To examine whether this emergent property is preferentially accessed when searching for an oddly directed gaze, we experimentally manipulated the local-feature information and...

Mar 29th

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Emergent Properties

Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art. A variety of theorists have appropriated it for their purposes ever since George Henry Lewes gave it a philosophical sense in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind. We might roughly characterize the shared meaning thus: emergent entities (properties or substances) ‘arise’ out of more fundamental entities and yet are ‘novel’ or ‘irreducible’ with...

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“Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let...”

– from the Movie Stalker (1979)

Mar 25th

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salt on everything

lick your merry lips off and hum it all in a bowling alley, headaches and hogwash going on in my ears dizzy, dizzy infected of worry. it’s never my body, my friends, or my brain, or my fault to be stranded in a utopian wonderland for three minutes i could sit still and stare at the wall and let it (die). this is my favorite mini-series, well-written, under-funded when it all dulls. ...

Mar 25th

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“The Way Things Work is by admitting or opening away. The objects of desire...”

– jorie graham

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Midnight In A Perfect World

Peep through the door It seems as though the grass was much greener before The dead life has been washed upon the sea shore Money and greed deluded what is truly pure And yet our flesh keeps screeching out for more Now you’re trapped A hole in the ozone about to make the world collapse Pollution fills the air and minds with bullet twisted facts Midnight is now upon us people righteous laws...

Mar 25th

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