A friend of mine showed me this blog post, and it’s pretty awesome. I’ve known about these techniques for a while (upside faces look weird because the face “gestalt” is not registered, but this post brings them home pretty nicely
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/how_to_draw_not_about_how_to_d.html
The point is that learning to draw well is actually learning to undo your natural biases — the biases that let us function so easily in everyday situations. We see a door as a rectangle, a sliver, a square and everything in between. At least these objects makes these shapes ON THE RETINA, but that’s now how we see them. We see them as a rectangular door, just from many perspectives. Same with
My hypothesis is that judgments about morality and what we have reason to do are similar. We have built in biases that make certain actions stand out to us in certain ways which makes it easy to navigate society, but unless we become “painters” of morality and practical reason, then we are at the mercy of these shortcuts. We must learn to see around them.
Also from my last post, still the thing that is most interesting to me is that we couldn’t watch TV if our brains created our perception of the world differently. What more proof could you need that TV makes you fat other than the act of watching engages the opposite visual system than the ACTING visual system. Almost by definition watching TV can’t involve acting. Only perceiving at its most passive.
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