A thread through the library
#perception
7 articles across 3of Wynmind’s sections.
World · Animals
The Whale Knows a World We Cannot Enter
What happens when an animal spends its entire life inside a medium that carries sound, pressure and movement through its body?
World · Physics
The Same Sound, Two Different Worlds
The same pressure wave obeys the same laws in air and in water, yet it builds two completely different worlds.
World · Life
The Skin Remembers Every Contact With the World
Your largest organ is also a sensing surface, reading pressure, vibration, stretch and warmth in astonishing detail. It may be the sense we trust most to tell us what is real.
World · Animals
What Darkness Feels Like to an Animal That Does Not Need Sight
For the star-nosed mole, the blind cavefish and the bat, darkness is not an absence. It is simply a world built from something other than light.
Mind · Brain
Does Your Brain Experience the Present Slightly After It Happens?
Signals take time to travel and to be processed. The "now" you feel may be a careful edit of the recent past, smoothed over with a prediction of the future.
Mind · Brain
Where Does Pain Actually Exist?
It feels as if pain is in the hand you burned. But some people feel pain in limbs they no longer have — and that changes what pain turns out to be.
Meaning · Reality
Does Colour Exist Without Someone to See It?
An apple reflects some wavelengths and absorbs others. Whether it is still red when no one is looking is a harder question than it first appears.