Chapter Notes
1. The Visual World
1. This topic is covered in depth in the book Sensory Exotica by Howard C.
Hughes, MIT Press, 2001.
2. This tiny insect is also named kikiki. As of 2020, it is the smallest known
flying insect. Discovered by John Huber and John Beardsley, its description was
published in 2000. More details may be found in “World’s Smallest Insect”,
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Northern California State University.
3. I have simplified the description of Shakey given by Dennett. See Daniel
Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 1991, Little, Brown.
4. Hoffman’s work is laid out in several journal articles as well as in a recent
book titled The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our
Eyes, (see References).
5. This material, as well as almost anything else you may wish to know about
human and animal vision, may be found in the volume titled Vision Science by
Stephen Palmer.
6. This phenomenon, together with many related ones, is described in V. S.
Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain.
7. This important research is contained in David Hubel and Margaret Livingstone’s article Segregation of form, color, movement, and depth: anatomy, physiology, and perception which appeared in the magazine Science in June 1988.
8. The role of emotional energy in perception is one of the topics of Antonio
Damasio’s book The Strange Order of Things.
9. A beautiful film of the peacock display may be viewed at: www.youtube.
com/watch?v=pTOblw2NRP8.
© The Author(s) 2021
C. Pinter, Mind and the Cosmic Order,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2
161
1. The Visual World
1. This topic is covered in depth in the book Sensory Exotica by Howard C.
Hughes, MIT Press, 2001.
2. This tiny insect is also named kikiki. As of 2020, it is the smallest known
flying insect. Discovered by John Huber and John Beardsley, its description was
published in 2000. More details may be found in “World’s Smallest Insect”,
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Northern California State University.
3. I have simplified the description of Shakey given by Dennett. See Daniel
Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 1991, Little, Brown.
4. Hoffman’s work is laid out in several journal articles as well as in a recent
book titled The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our
Eyes, (see References).
5. This material, as well as almost anything else you may wish to know about
human and animal vision, may be found in the volume titled Vision Science by
Stephen Palmer.
6. This phenomenon, together with many related ones, is described in V. S.
Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain.
7. This important research is contained in David Hubel and Margaret Livingstone’s article Segregation of form, color, movement, and depth: anatomy, physiology, and perception which appeared in the magazine Science in June 1988.
8. The role of emotional energy in perception is one of the topics of Antonio
Damasio’s book The Strange Order of Things.
9. A beautiful film of the peacock display may be viewed at: www.youtube.
com/watch?v=pTOblw2NRP8.
© The Author(s) 2021
C. Pinter, Mind and the Cosmic Order,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2
161