Seeing sense

Seeing this as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology

This thesis is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, both in science and on an everyday level. The thesis develops a theory of anthropomorphism in com...

Seeing Seeing

This paper discusses several key issues concerning consciousness and human vision. A brief overview is presented of recent developments in this area, including issues that have been resolved and issues that remain unsettled. Based on this, three Hilbert questions are proposed. These involve three related sets of issues: the kinds of visual experience that exist, the kinds of visual attention th...

Seeing and not seeing.

Recent studies revealed that although subterranean mammals inhabit a dark underground environment, they can still perceive light stimuli and use this to entrain their circadian activity rhythm. Regarding spatial orientation, olfactory and tactile cues are employed for short-distance; whereas for long-distance, subterranean mammals employ the earth's magnetic field and self-generated (vestibular...

Seeing more is seeing better.

Making sense of the metabolome using evolutionary computation: seeing the wood with the trees.

One should perhaps start off by asking the question, 'But what wood is it we want to see?' There are so many trees that make up the wood; within a post-genomics context, genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolites are the more tangible ones. Rather than studying these components in isolation, a more holistic approach is to unravel the interactions between the myriad of subcellular components ...