From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 14:45:14 MDT
Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
> Continuing on the "our brains are made of mush" series, we have the
> McGurk effect (i suggest downloading the clip if your browser doesn't
> cache, because you are going to want to play it a few hundred times)
> http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
Interesting. Maybe it's just because I was warned, but I heard:
"THA THA THA THA THA BA", both with my eyes open, and with my eyes
closed. Guess I'm one of the 2%.
Continuing in this vein, we have:
http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year3/PSY339EvolutionaryPsychology/EvolutionaryPsychology.htm#beautyandasymmetry
As we all know, symmetric faces are more beautiful. Here is a thing that
fascinates me; I can immediately see the symmetrical female face as more
beautiful, but I don't see any difference in handsomeness between the
symmetric and asymmetric male face. Having briefly checked a chat
channel, I find that some men also see no difference in handsomeness,
while others say they see the symmetric face as more handsome. I wasn't
able to question any women.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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