Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My cat watches nature shows (intently) all the time, with or without sound! She has approached the TV many times while looking at images that interest her or jog her instincts. When birds fly off and the camera pans to another scene, she jumps up behind the TV to see if they went back there. ;-) Just flickering patterns on a screen? Or human ego running amuck as usual? Montie -----Original Message----- >From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >Sent: Aug 14, 2013 10:05 AM >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Subject: Re: [Leica] BLUR - My last words. > >Larry said: Closer to home, your dog does not jump into the TV screen to >frolic in the fields shown in the dog food commercials. Neither does it >growl or flee from the TV intruders in your household. The image on TV is >not the real world to the animal but a flickering pattern on an illuminated >tube. We see the image as a depiction of reality because our intelligence >and experience enables us infer the scene from its abstract representation. >The animal does not. > > >?I think you are surely correct in the older technology, but todays' HD TV >seems to have changed that, at least with cats. It is quite common for >mine to pay attention to images on the screen, both TV and computer, >particularly ?other cats and birds > > > >-- >Regards, > >Sonny >http://sonc.com/look/ >Natchitoches, Louisiana >1714 >Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > >USA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information