| Description: | [Gluon - The Physics Journal Club] Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, Professor, DPS, (IISER Kolkata) -- Vision: Perception versus Reality |
| Date: | Monday, Feb 27, 2023 |
| Time: | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
| Venue: | Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre |
| Details: | We rely on our senses to perceive the world around us. Vision is most important among these. We extensively use and trust our vision to form opinions and reasoning. But what is vision ? Open eyes do not necessarily make us see, -- attention is the key. How do we decide where to keep attention ? Paying attention somewhere implies missing out a whole lot of details. Why did we evolve to "miss out" ? Since attention is a choice, the visual reality is merely a personal-construction, -- is it so ? I will take you through some exciting experiments and examples to touch upon these eternal questions. I will convince you that seeing is possible even when your eyes are closed. |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by sangita.jr) |