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WT Sharpe · 03-13-2011, 01:09 PM

.....[O]ur understanding of the world around us comes from the merest echoes of reality—the photons of light that bombard the eye, the vibrations in the air that strike the ear, the floating molecules that rush into the nostrils.
..........— Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick, and formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). From "The Mind Machine," a 13-part series on BBC television. The Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing, edited by Richard Dawkins.

03-13-2011, 01:09 PM	#1366
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....[O]ur understanding of the world around us comes from the merest echoes of reality—the photons of light that bombard the eye, the vibrations in the air that strike the ear, the floating molecules that rush into the nostrils. ..........— Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick, and formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). From "The Mind Machine," a 13-part series on BBC television. *The Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing*, edited by Richard Dawkins.