The space between our ears

Michael J. Morgan

"In the space between our ears Michael Morgan explains how our brain interprets what we see. Using a wealth of sources from over the centuries - philosophical writings, scientific thinking, experiments, passages from poems and novels, scenes from films, etc. - Morgan reveals the difficulty in working out exactly how we make and receive our visual perceptions." "To illustrate various points the book includes optical drawings as well as some simple experiments that the reader can do to test the different components of one's sight and our own reactions to it." "We need to have visual, tactile and aural senses which agree [plus, ideally, experience] if we are to form a unified picture of outside space. However there is a long way to go in neurological terms before we can interpret how our brains actually see, or indeed the precise location of where this happens inside the grey matter....

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