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Humans have been able to instantaneously change their field of view long before films/television. Just throw a blanket over your head, or close your eyes and t

Humans have been able to instantaneously change their field of view long before films/television. Just throw a blanket over your head, or close your eyes and turn around and open them. We evolved long ago to process new imagery and quickly react to it.

InclinedPlane 11y ago
Imagine running through a varied landscape, through and around trees and hills, while looking around every which way to maintain situational awareness. That's a far more challenging task than keeping track of movie cuts, but one that humans do quite well.
post-it-note 11y ago
Not only that, but in order to make intelligent inferences from multiple points of observation (a memory of an aggressive animal and the aftermath, combined with a present visualization of a different but similar aggressive animal, and knowledge of one's offspring nearby).. All of these things can be visualized in the mind as a sequence of environmental, first person perspective imagery, with emotional associations and connected knowledge, that comes in the form of feelings, and constructed symbolic representations of reality. We put things together almost instantaneously without even understanding how we fill in the gaps. The same mechanism occurs when one jumps to conclusions, or understands how one line of a mathematical proof implies that the next line can now be read. It's all absurd and has the potential to be brain exploding when you really sit and try to think about what makes you think that gap is totally filled, but it's also not, because memories and feelings like 'obvious', and also because it's a big part of science to question those gaps. Brains are weird though, even with all the explanation and science and repetition and predictability in scientific knowledge, it is still 'awe' invoking.
drawkbox 11y ago
Add to that sleeping and waking up, orientating yourself. Even dreaming seems to constantly provide new situations, almost like movie edit cuts, that the mind processes and tests itself with.

InclinedPlane 11y ago

Imagine running through a varied landscape, through and around trees and hills, while looking around every which way to maintain situational awareness. That's a far more challenging task than keeping track of movie cuts, but one that humans do quite well.

post-it-note 11y ago

Not only that, but in order to make intelligent inferences from multiple points of observation (a memory of an aggressive animal and the aftermath, combined with a present visualization of a different but similar aggressive animal, and knowledge of one's offspring nearby).. All of these things can be visualized in the mind as a sequence of environmental, first person perspective imagery, with emotional associations and connected knowledge, that comes in the form of feelings, and constructed symbolic representations of reality. We put things together almost instantaneously without even understanding how we fill in the gaps. The same mechanism occurs when one jumps to conclusions, or understands how one line of a mathematical proof implies that the next line can now be read. It's all absurd and has the potential to be brain exploding when you really sit and try to think about what makes you think that gap is totally filled, but it's also not, because memories and feelings like 'obvious', and also because it's a big part of science to question those gaps. Brains are weird though, even with all the explanation and science and repetition and predictability in scientific knowledge, it is still 'awe' invoking.

drawkbox 11y ago

Add to that sleeping and waking up, orientating yourself. Even dreaming seems to constantly provide new situations, almost like movie edit cuts, that the mind processes and tests itself with.