Event overview
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto explores the nature of illusory perceptions in the world of evolving Artificial Life systems.
Illusions have the potential to provide key insights into why we see what we do. And yet there remains no clear principled explanation for why we see them, much less how. Here we will explore the nature of illusory perceptions in the world of evolving Artificial Life systems.
Beau Lotto is a neuroscientist fascinated with human perception. He teaches that the senses only deliver data to the brain, and it is the brain that assembles that data into information that is meaningful to a human being.
“We never see the world as it actually is, but only the world that is useful for us to see.”
This is one reason human beings have so many built-in biases: we streamline the process of creating meaning from uncertainty.
Beau Lotto is the founder of Lottolab, a cross between an art studio and a science lab where the public interacts with striking sculptures and illusions—and from which he mines data for his research in human perception.
Lotto's passion shows itself in his unorthodox, interactive approach to research. He uses art and performance as a mass experiment to teach people that what they perceive as unbiased reality is actually a neurologically-produced response to data, grounded in personal and biological history.
Dates & times
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| 13 Jun 2016 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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