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Monday, 13 October 2025

Lecture 15: Gestaltism III: Experience error, CNS error, Psych-neural Isomorphism, Behavioural Environment (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology,...

Lecture 14: Gestaltism II: Fields, Self-Organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Tu...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Lecture 13: Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism, and Mechanical Order (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts  section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain pe...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Lecture 12: The Space Enigmas IV: On Learning Space Perception (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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This Lecture is in roughly two parts. The first brief section walks through a Helmhotzian method for perceiving depth via unconscious infere...

Lecture 11: Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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This Lecture is about Helmholtz, and his theory of sensations being integrated into perceptual experience via unconscious inference. Everyth...
Thursday, 22 May 2025

Lecture 10: The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

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The previous two lectures have covered aspects of the problem of space perception. We perceive objects, and these inhabit space - they are a...
Friday, 22 November 2024

Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

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I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricit...
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