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A super article in the New Scientist explains – as artists have intuited down the centuries – that the brain works to a different set of rules than the real world. We have misread shadows and mirrors from Velazquez Rokeby Venus to Bond’s Scaramanga but most of the time we get it right. I’m going … Continue reading Art

September 26, 2010September 26, 2010Aristotle, Art, Bayesian Brain, Ethics, Gut, Intuition, Virtue1 Comment

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