Thoughts, Experiments and Research
Understanding of a scene begins below awareness, fast, and in ways that people share.
Lewin’s Foundation
Equation One keeps Lewin’s structure and makes each variable readable in a scene.
Each driver is a finite, repeatable pathway from what is seen to what is done, and each is read by a term of U = f(En, El, Pb, P | Π).
Thoughts
Why Environment Is Engineered
In recorded material the setting, the objects, the light and the position of each person have been chosen by someone.
Irrational Behavior and the Inputs That Were Missing
It is a method as well as a finding: where a behaviour appears irrational, the input that was present and was not read is sought.
Why Visual Understanding Is the Medium
Most of what a person understands of another person arrives through sight.
Seeing is not understanding
What a participant understands is therefore a reading of what is seen, and U is that reading.
A camera has no fovea
The inputs that a participant takes in partly, and below awareness, are available in full to a system that reads the frame.
The table-setting test
The test is therefore a test of agreement between participants, and agreement is what reveals the shared, subconscious basis of understanding.
Any tester can mix, match and change the configuration, and should do so; the result does not depend on the particular settings chosen.
The brain ranks and rates what it observes, and builds narratives from the ranks.
Temporal Determinism
By temporal determinism this book means that what is about to happen in a scene, and in the participant who takes it in, is fixed by what has already been read, within the finite range of behaviour, up to a residual.
The thesis concerns a known participant within a residual, not every individual act known in advance by anyone.
The determinism of this thesis is conditional on the participant.
The Skeptics
A position is strengthened by the sources that doubt it.
Under that rule the principle can fail, and a principle that can fail can be tested.