perceptual adaptation Quotes

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.