By Jan Morovic Have you ever seen a flickering light (like a fluorescent tube) out of the corner of your eye and when you then turned to look directly at it, the flicker was gone? If you have, then you experienced the fact that we, humans, have two different systems of vision coexisting in our…
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Transformed by Time
By Miguel Oliveira Panão Humans have a peculiar relationship with time. We all experience it but feel unable to define it. The sequence of events in our life is like traveling with time. But the aging we see in the mirror is like having time traveling through us. How elusive the understanding of time seems…
Memory color: seeing the present through the past
By Ján Morovič At first, it might seem like viewing the world around us is a unidirectional process, albeit one that is complex and fundamentally derived from how various aspects of the world relate to each other (as has been explored here before). It might seem like a process that starts with electromagnetic radiation of…