Clover
May 15th, 2006 Fred McVittie
Last Monday I was out for a walk and found this 4-leafed clover
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Clover 2
May 15th, 2006 Fred McVittie
On Thursday I found these 2
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Clover 3
May 15th, 2006 Fred McVittie
And this morning I found these
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Clover 4
May 15th, 2006 Fred McVittie
And this 5-leafed specimin.
I’m not intentionally looking for them, they just seem to be ‘jumping out’ at me. Very strange.
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Clover 5
May 16th, 2006 Fred McVittie
Just one today.
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Counting Clover
May 18th, 2006 Fred McVittie
I’ve been thinking about that Clover.
Maybe the reasons why the four-leafed clover is jumping out at me is that I am somehow non-consciously primed to look down at the clover and give it minimal attention, (even though I have no conscious awareness that I am doing this). This primed looking must somehow involve subitizing the number of leaves because if I was counting or estimating the number I would have to be conscious of the act. As far as I know the evidence is pretty conclusive that there are (at least) two ways of perceiving numbers (Kaufman, Pylyshyn, Trick, Dehaene, etc.) and subitizing, which is innate and immediate, is the only one that seems to be able to operate non-consciously.
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More Clover
May 23rd, 2006 Fred McVittie
More clover
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Blurred Vision
May 26th, 2006 Fred McVittie
I spent this morning wandering around without my spectacles. I didn’t lose them, everything had just seemed a little bit ’sharp’ and clearly defined recently. Without my specs looking becomes a bit more like listening; things lose their distinction, edges blur, colours run. The world changes from a piece of Russian Constructivist art to an Impressionist piece, a Monet maybe, or sometimes even a Rothko. Much better.
On the subject of art, I bumped into the Indian chap I met on the first day, he said the thing he was enjoying most about The Conference was the artworks, which is wierd because I haven’t seen any artwork here at all yet. I am going to make a special effort to find some over the next few days, maybe if I prime myself to look for it, it will ‘jump out’ at me much like the clover did a few days back. Watch, this space.
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