Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- Seeing with the mind as well as the eye
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Bob Greenler, UW-Milwaukee, Department of Physics
- Abstract: This presentation is an anecdotal treatment about ways of seeing the world, ways of looking beyond the visual scene to see what is behind it. It is not based on any scientific paradigm and I make no claim for either great insight or originality. It seems to me, however, to touch on a part of the creative process for a scientist. One of the ways of seeing that I will discuss is that of looking for interesting questions suggested by the visual scene. Since the questions come out of the background peculiar to the viewer, my examples will necessarily be personal. But I hope to illustrate some ways of seeing the world around us that others can adapt to their own particular backgrounds, and, perhaps cultivate.