Notes: trying to nail things down: it's difficult...like being dead tired and trying to set up a back pack tent in a raging wind storm...evening coming on, and one hasn't found level ground, and, it's going to rain...wind trying to make a kite of the tent!...throw in some lightning and a wonder about the aluminum tent pegs...kind of cool though, once inside warm and dry, to see a lightning bolt strike Cathedral Peak...anyway...back on 8/27 I posted this:..oh, I've gone over a hundred posts in this series...this one like one hundred and two...see previous!...quote following from that post...
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what thoughts are, are 'captions' of what we see with 'lenses/prisms'...we make thought captions for what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and all are other senses...add to that everything, all the spell/lenses/prisms....art of thought, art of captions...often we 'see', experience, things we have no words for, no thoughts for, no caption for...I suppose in its turn a caption can become a spell/prism/revelation...so its a quibble just what is what!...I'm not one to explain evolution, but I suppose being able to communicate a thought, a caption to an experience, has its advantages...a thought here might be that animals sense without captioning!...one really doesn't need to think to feel..
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so, I'm reading along in Robert Graves Difficult Questions, Easy Answers, the Genius bit, which is online, and happen on this, which I had read a very long time ago....
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for example, of shock caused by a block-busting explosion, can send a group of professional men scrabbling for escape on a tiled floor, rather than, as would happen under a lesser shock, merely running away or throwing hysterics. Some of us inherit primitive sensibility to signs of danger which evade our educated senses, but of which cats, dogs and horses are often conscious
https://www.math.uci.edu/~vbaranov/nicetexts/eng/genius.htm
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hmmph...educated 'captions'...anyway, from yesterday's post I thought to look up a Mystereons youtube about the goddess Artemis...clip is amateur work, even for Mystereons, but, but I had left off yesterday's post with bit about contour rivalry...a Chavin culture stele figure upside down, upside right...I had never seen the term 'contour rivalry', though I am familiar with the notion...more on that in a sec...so, so, I start to watch the Artemis clip, and it starts right out with turning an ancient Greek portrait bust in marble upside down!...and the narrator says, "see!, the forehead furrow becomes the mouth, and you can see unmistakably a grey alien's face"...apparently it is a common thing for black magicians to reverse things, and so give them spell powers...I dunno...but now I can't look at a Greek, or Roman, or anyone's, portrait bust in marble with a furrow in the forehead, and not think to turn it upside down to see if it is a grey alien from that topsy turvey perspective!...youtuber made a very successful 'made you look'!...a go figure coincidence that I'd been thinking on 'contour rivalry'...even posted just that to the comment section to the clip...a counter 'make you look'!...but, but I looked around more for 'contour rivalry'...and find it to be among a cluster of terms for optical illusions, one which I had tried to describe way back aways...once at a night concert, sitting in the dark audience and seeing the figures on stage brightly lit, I just let my focus go, my eyes' 'virtue', I learned this is called, and the figures got very bright and kind of '3-D' ish...like overlaid and stacked...I would see only one surface at a time...and another time I did this looking at a book jacket illustration...same effect...I mentioned all this in reference to the Andeans art, like the tocapus and four corner hats...if one let their vision go looking at them the forms bounce about...or some such...well, I found a name for this. and wiki explains it better!!!...game on...on the radio...Angels and Astros...Barria on mound for Angels...Multistable Perception:
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Multistable perception (or Bistable perception) are a form of perceptual phenomena in which there are unpredictable sequences of spontaneous subjective changes. While usually associated with visual perception (a form of optical illusion), such phenomena can also be found for auditory and olfactory precepts.
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Human interest in these phenomena can be traced back to antiquity. The fascination of multistable perception probably comes from the active nature of endogenous perceptual changes or from the dissociation of dynamic perception from constant sensory stimulation.
Multistable perception was a common feature in the artwork of the Dutch lithographer M. C. Escher, who was strongly influenced by mathematical physicists such as Roger Penrose.[
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Examples of visually ambiguous patterns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception
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I was calling the Inca tocapu emblems symmetrical asymmetrical...scholars too...those illustrations above are very exact...the tocapus have an organic kind of look...things are alike, but different...different colors, different arrangements of the ambigram/bi-lateral relationships...Calhoun up...Ohtani batting sixth!...hmmph...that's wrong...Calhoun made out...Trout got on base somehow...Upton up...should be Ohtani!...pop out...to bottom of 1st...
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Illusory contours or subjective contours are visual illusions that evoke the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge. Illusory brightness and depth ordering frequently accompany illusory contours. Friedrich Schumann is often credited with the discovery of illusory contours around the beginning of the twentieth century,[1] however illusory contours are present in art dating to the Middle Ages. Gaetano Kanizsa’s 1976 Scientific American paper marks the resurgence of interest in illusory contours for vision scientists.
Kanizsa's Triangle: These spatially separate fragments give the impression of a bright white triangle, defined by a sharp illusory contour, occluding three black circles and a black-outlined triangle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_contours
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that's not quite what I have in mind, but close...I thought I had an exact caption from one of the wikis going on about optical illusions...two Ks...Altuve up...a caption that fit my thought!...anyway, back then I even looked about for an optical illusion example in Mesoamerican/Andean pre- Columbian art, and actually found one...another K!...to top of 2nd...Simmons up...ground out...Ohtani up...ground out...another ground out...to bottom of 2nd...
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https://i.pinimg.com/236x/98/4a/97/984a97c49e11c1883620acfcceec60ed--ancient-tomb-oaxaca-mexico.jpg
a pinterest link to somewhere...a grim visage...the pre Columbian artistries of the New World are often grim!...anyway, the chest plate on either side has a woven optical illusion pattern in it...and that's about all I got!...except the tocapus, the four cornered hats, the artistries in general, have a kind of optical illusion effect to them...thought is they were actually devices to aid hallucinations...along with chants, rituals, sacrifices and all the rest...seeing things horrible can make for a kind of brightness in the vision of one...that look one has when about to faint!...oh, my best support for all this effort to nail this odd thing down, are the Buddhists' mandalas...clearly the monks are given to just looking for long times at things, and to let go one's vision while looking at a Mandala is to see thing go bright, and bounce about...I made one once as an art class assignment to make a yarn painting...it was very nice, and something of a sensation on the wall of a little house rented while in school...late 60s early70s rock and roll posters are full of this...for that matter, the rock and roll music too...sound illusions/optical illusions...Astros made out...to top of 3rd...Ward with hit...lead off runner on...Bresino up...but, but how does this all sort out!?...were the ancients messing with optical illusions?...nowadays these are studied for their import on how our minds work...W...two runners on...apparently some of them were, evidence that Chavin stele....one thought I came upon, is that the ancients made their artistries confusing to conceal their meaning...which is a fit...the priesthoods were all very secretive...noted the public was only allowed in Chartres Cathedral on special religious holidays, excepting the King and royalty, and of course, the priests...not that the public didn't know what was inside...they made it after all, at the direction of ?...I put a question mark here as I can't find who all directed the making of these artistries!...the most marvelous of all the old temples are in India...and not that far back...contemporary with the cathedrals in Europe...Angels made out...to bottom of 3rd...I dunno...Mystereons go on about the mystery how huge stones were carved and moved...India has a temple larger than the Parthenon, and it is all carved out of one rock hillside...the whole thing one huge stone carved out...looking at it I think, '3-D printer!'...:)...but more mysterious is how anyone, or anyones, comes to the notion of even making such...I turn over my pet saying now, where things are is what things are, and apply it in different 'aspects'...thought to apply it to economies...comparing what are tax dollars go to. to what taxes did in the ancient cultures...what slice of the pie went for this, what went for that?...always at the top, my thought, would be expenditures for the military...that's always at the top, the most expensive...and, well, the Great Pyramid in Egypt must be a weapon!...and the temples, and the pyramids, all over the ancient world...Altuve up...runners on base...close as third base...two out...flare to Upton for third out...a fantastic notion, but one must take into account how superstitious the ancients were...to ward off evil they turned to spells, the temples and pyramids, the artistries, all 'weapons'...to top of 5th...Astros manager woofing at the umpires...some of the calls iffy...whether or not they worked or not was neither here nor there, so long as the populace believed they did...and the god kings with their priesthoods and noble entourages maintained all that...the Hindu caste system kind of a model for all these monumental building cultures...Simmons up with two outs...another three ground out inning for the Angels...to bottom of 4th...oh...here it is...Monocular Rivalry:
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Monocular rivalry is a phenomenon of human visual perception that occurs when two different images are optically superimposed. During prolonged viewing, one image becomes clearer than the other for a few moments, then the other image becomes clearer than the first for a few moments. These alternations in clarity continue at random for as long as one looks. Occasionally one image will become exclusively visible and the other image invisible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocular_rivalry
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there, all four tent pegs in!...and the side line pegs too...hereabout, caught up some, I'd continue with the goddess Artemis, her ruined temple at Ephesias...Ohtani up...but I haven't gathered things yet...Ohtani beats out a tapper infield hit...
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This model of the Temple of Artemis, at Miniatürk Park, Istanbul, Turkey, attempts to recreate the probable appearance of the first temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
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there's one part of a pillar left...hmmph...fc, Ohtani thrown out going to second...I'm gonna rollover to the sports bar for some clam chowder, watch the game! Update: Angels win, 3-0!
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