How Do Sense Organs Make Sense

Sipko L. Boersma

doi:10.1117/12.934338

16 June 1983 How Do Sense Organs Make Sense

Sipko L. Boersma

Proceedings Volume 0369, Max Born Centenary Conf; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934338
Event: The Max Born Centenary Conference, 1982, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

A sense organ is a non-linear operator operating on an external field. It performs a dual task: a. Data reduction by many orders of magnitude. b. Making sense, that is producing individual-invariant data out of the raw stream. A Wigner distribution function is a suitable operator for both hearing and vision fields. In hearing it leads to frequency , tone, perception. In vision it produces ray directions. Now tactile , auditory and visual information fit together into a single perception spectrum. Relations are shown to exist between the specification of eye , ear and tactile sense. These relations hold for many species of animals , including insects.

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Sipko L. Boersma "How Do Sense Organs Make Sense", Proc. SPIE 0369, Max Born Centenary Conf, (16 June 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934338

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