Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the greatest evidence of an event one can obtain is to see it with their own eyes, and in a court of law little is held in more esteem than eyewitness testimony. Yet if you asked to display for a court a video of the same quality as the unprocessed data catptured on the retina of a human eye, the judge might wonder what you were tryig to put over. For one thing, the view will have a blind spot where the optic nerve attaches to the retina. Moreover, the only part of our field of vision with good resolution is a narrow area of about 1 degree of visual angle around the retina’s center, an area the width of our thumb as it looks when held at arm’s length. Outside that region, resolution drops off sharply. To compensate, we constantly move our eyes to bring the sharper region to bear on different portions of the scene we wish to observe. And so the pattern of raw data sent to the brain is a shaky, badly pixilated picture with a hole in it. Fortunately the brain processes the data, combining input from both eyes, filling in gaps on the assumption that the visual properties of neighboring locations are similar and interpolating. The result - at least until age, injury, disease, or an excess of mai tais takes its toll - is a happy human being suffering from the compelling illusion that his or her vision is sharp and clear.

We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out “picture” is clear and accurate. But is it?


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They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD
We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD
She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
AMY LEONARD
We stepped it up quite a bit in the third.
AMY LEONARD
In the first half we shot OK, but we missed some easy put-backs and stuff like that. We came out in ...
AMY LEONARD
I'm not going to assume anything over anybody. It's girls basketball, on any given day it can go any...
AMY LEONARD
The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. Th...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star ga...
KAWHI LEONARD
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
LEONARD NIMOY
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resou...
LEONARD BAILEY
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made t...
LEONARD BOSWELL
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing futur...
LEONARD SLATKIN
I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.
KAWHI LEONARD
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unk...
LEONARD NIMOY
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they hav...
LEONARD NIMOY
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was ...
LEONARD PELTIER
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the...
LEONARD WOODCOCK
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD
The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is t...
LEONARD SLATKIN
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ...
LEONARD COHEN
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty dee...
LEONARD NIMOY
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
LEONARD MALTIN
I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the...
KAWHI LEONARD
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ...
ELMORE LEONARD
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billion...
LEONARD LANCE
I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was...
LEONARD COHEN
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
LEONARD WOOLF
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of...
JOHN LEONARD
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. T...
ELMORE LEONARD
I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations a...
LEONARD ORR
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD
The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
LEONARD PELTIER
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ...
LEONARD LAUDER
I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.
LEONARD NIMOY
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ...
BUCK LEONARD
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
LEONARD RAVENHILL
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y...
LEONARD COHEN
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish...
LEONARD COHEN
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, b...
LEONARD COHEN
I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
LEONARD LAUDER
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urg...
LEONARD BOSWELL
I think I definitely have to improve my 3-point shot and my defense. There's probably a lot of thing...
BRITTANY LEONARD
My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T...
BRITTANY LEONARD
I wanted to go to a junior college for two years so that I'd have a better chance to go to a bigger ...
BRITTANY LEONARD
The third quarter is our quarter. Our main focus is to come out strong.
BRITTANY LEONARD
I know everybody is yelling and wanting me to miss, but I always try to go up to the line confident ...
BRITTANY LEONARD
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played w...
JOHN LEONARD
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.
LEONARD BOSWELL
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD