“We live in a state of Blessed ignorance, but it is also a state of marvelous enlightenment”
(Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop, p.362)
That establishes Euclidean geometry as tactile not visual. http://learn.uci.edu/media/OC01/11002/AR0111002_L1T2P1.gif
visual field intersects on our retina. http://img.webmd.com/dtmcms/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/articles/health_and_medical_reference/eye_health/understanding-vision_problems-basics-myopia-and-hyperopia.jpg
our view.
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/23/70823-004-2AD75C17.jpg
our vision.
http://www.griseldaonline.it/foto/checcoli/3A-%20jan-van-eyck-madonna-del-cancelliere-rolin-1439-parigi-louvre.jpg
Imagine what one would paint if we based our understanding of our world reality on our sense of smell. We know of a few new studies in this field:
From Artificial Chemical Sensing:
Olfaction and the Electronic Nose, Stetter, J.R.; Pensrose, W.R., eds.
Electrochem. Soc.: Pennington, NJ, 2001, pp. 8-14.
A COLORIMETRIC NOSE: “SMELL-SEEING”
Kenneth S. Suslick and Neal A. Rakow
School of Chemical Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
THE SMELL-SEEING ARRAY
When an array of metalloporphyrins deposited on an inert support (e.g.,
reverse phase silica gel) is exposed to various analytes, color changes in the
various porphyrin complexes are observed, and the color changes are often
dramatic. By simply subtracting the digital images of the array before and after
exposure, one may obtain a quantitative color change pattern: we refer to this as
“smell-seeing”. As shown in Figure 2, these color change patterns give striking
visual identification of a range of ligating vapors (including alcohols, amines,
ethers, phosphines, phosphites, thioethers, and thiols). Weakly-ligating vapors
such as arenes, halocarbons, and ketones can also be differentiated. Diffuse
reflectance spectroscopy studies have shown that solid-state spectral shifts are
similar to those known for ligation in solution. The array has demonstrated
interpretable and reversible responses even to analyte mixtures of strong ligands,
such as pyridines and phosphites. Color change patterns for mixtures are distinct
from either of the neat vapors.
Figure 2. Color change profiles (shown in black and white) for a series of vapors; the
degree of analyte softness (roughly the polarizability) increases from left to right, top to
bottom. Analytes were delivered in nitrogen streams saturated with the vapor at 20°C.
Images obtained upon full equilibration using an HP Scanjet 3C flatbed scanner.
Difference maps were obtained by subtracting the RGB images (i.e., { |R(after exporsure
to analyte) – R(before)|, |G(after exporsure to analyte) – G(before)|, |B(after exporsure to
analyte) – B(before)| }
direction,light source, http://www.pspug.org/tutorial/html/tutmini/pspug-perspective_v7.htm
or the indication of a collective perspective on a given fact.
http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2009/01/04/stories/2009010450260600.htm
An areal view of the earth does not revile the subdivision of the buildings, just their roof,
http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-3/san-francisco-aerial-view.jpg
an infrared photograph of a landscape will indicate the place of an object, not their color, http://images.pennnet.com/articles/mae/thm/th_0701maesupp_f1_02.jpg
An X-ray will define the inner bones, but will neglect the surface of our skin.
http://www.shop4dentist.com/images/x-ray-04.jpg
construct a reality. We learned that
http://spiralzoom.com/Science/spiralconsciousness/Strangeloop_op_221x600.jpg
“In the brain model proposed here, the casual potency of an idea, or an ideal, becomes just as real as that of a molecule, a cell, or a nerve impulse. Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains…an advance in evolution…” (p.205, 2007 Hofstadter, D. I am a Strange Loop)
http://brainwaves.corante.com/articles-synesthesia-brain.jpg
Guggenheim – Synesthesia:
http://bnee.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/synesthesia.jpg
“Some people – a surprisingly large number- “see” color or “taste” or “smell” or “feel” various sensations as they listen to music…” (P. xiii 2008, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks)
