The Experience of Fluid Motion in Films and Videos Suggests a New Theory of Consciousness
The Ability to Create Motion From Coherent Still Images Has No Survival Benefit Because There Are No Naturally Occurring Streams of Such Images - Or Are There?
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My study of the prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux cave in Southwest France, as well as other local caves in the area, has been one of increasing respect for the early human artist-shamans that created these artworks. It has been humbling as well to see how little we have added to their understanding of human perceptual abilities. Even the destruction of the original paintings in Lascaux has served to open my eyes to how little we can do to mitigate the extreme climate changes that we have caused. Not because these changes are inevitable, but because we lack comprehension of what we have done and how to undo it without making matters much worse.
What I did not expect to come out of this interest was that it would lead me to the precious insight that the apparent motion that we experience every time we watch a video or film, or use an electronic device with a screen, is positive evidence of what I have presented in my work on the novel paradigm of Responsive Naturing. To explain this, I need to recap a bit of what I have explained at length elsewhere.