Video Friday: Melanie Swan on Introduction to Ethics of Perception in Nanocognition
Melanie Swan on Introduction to Ethics of Perception in Nanocognition
Melanie Swan on Introduction to Ethics of Perception in Nanocognition
What does #TheDress sound like to a synaesthetic cyborg?
There is no such thing as a ‘phantom limb’. On the face of it, that’s obvious – a phantom limb is no longer present and, therefore, does not exist. That is not what I mean. I mean that the ‘phantom’ in the phrase is itself the phantom. To understand this, look at it the other way around: we don’t say that a person with a limb over which she has no control has a ‘phantom brain map’ for that inoperative limb.