RE: A Fifth Dimension?
April 2, 2015 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2015 at 4:47 pm by Pyrrho.)
All of this is reminding me of a video I posted in another thread, of Neil deGrasse Tyson responding to a question about UFOs and aliens, and addressing some other issues in excerpts at the end.
Here is a link to the other thread:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-32481.html
And here is the video:
The video, though long, is interesting.
In the video, as an aside (as it isn't his main point), he says that optical illusions should be called "brain failures." They are a failure of human perception, in which one's brain gets it wrong.
Mangy monkeys.
The video goes on beyond the song, but it is a charming version, that, perhaps, Herr Doktor Merkwürdigliebe will appreciate:
Here is a link to the other thread:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-32481.html
And here is the video:
The video, though long, is interesting.
In the video, as an aside (as it isn't his main point), he says that optical illusions should be called "brain failures." They are a failure of human perception, in which one's brain gets it wrong.
Mangy monkeys.
The video goes on beyond the song, but it is a charming version, that, perhaps, Herr Doktor Merkwürdigliebe will appreciate:
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
