All categories are suspicious. They are a way of taking the infinitely complex and rendering it simple. Therefore, they are inherently false; however, they help us organize our world. Musicians, painters, sculptors all dislike being categorized. They want to … Continued

     With painting, photography or our own biological vision we spot and track a subject for our focus. When riding a merry-go-round to prevent dizziness just keep your eye fixed on a stationary subject. Dancers call this spotting. When … Continued

      The rhythm behind the blues, behind a waltz, behind a jackhammer or the repeated shifting sounds of tires crossing seams of concrete as the car speeds up or slows down; all these rhythms hold our attention as … Continued

 The first question should be: Are there any? There are rules of perception (see Richard Gregory, David Hubel, Margaret Livingstone, Donald Hoffman) and there are shapes to which infants favor their attention such as circles and concentric circles vs. squares … Continued

We see and recognize our world partly because of our cultural milieu. Our eyes simply receive raw light information while our brain organizes and identifies it. After Saddam Hussein’s execution many Iraqis thought they recognized Saddam’s face in the moon. … Continued

  In Thomas Kuhn’s classic “The Structure of Scientific Revolution,” the author considers our response to the failure of standard paradigms. We try to make the old paradigm work with modifications; we reject the evidence that the old paradigm (insert: … Continued