I think my thought process for the rabbit direction was actually: 1. remember they were facing each other 2. remember the elephant was facing right 3. concluding that the rabbit must have faced left The process was way to fast, to be sure about what happened, but that's how it felt like, when I thought about it afterwards.
Isn't it actually a logical fallacy to argue that : if we do operation A, it takes a certain amount of time. It took this certain amount of time, therefore operation A was done and not some other operation. This does count as abductive reasoning, but isn't actually a valid inference. We can only conclude that: given it didn't take this certain amount of time, operation A wasn't done. And in this particular case it just tells us that the mathematical transformation wasn't done, however we don't know whether mental rotation via 3d imagery is the only other way of figuring out rotations problems, and so we can't conclude that it is indeed the right model only by ruling out another
I think my thought process for the rabbit direction was actually:
1. remember they were facing each other
2. remember the elephant was facing right
3. concluding that the rabbit must have faced left
The process was way to fast, to be sure about what happened, but that's how it felt like, when I thought about it afterwards.
Excellent lecture. Just what I was looking for to share with a young friend so we can discuss the vagaries of human visual perception.
Awesome lecture. Thanks, Ryan!
New subscriber from Brazil. Thank you for the videos
Brilliant!!
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Isn't it actually a logical fallacy to argue that : if we do operation A, it takes a certain amount of time. It took this certain amount of time, therefore operation A was done and not some other operation. This does count as abductive reasoning, but isn't actually a valid inference. We can only conclude that: given it didn't take this certain amount of time, operation A wasn't done. And in this particular case it just tells us that the mathematical transformation wasn't done, however we don't know whether mental rotation via 3d imagery is the only other way of figuring out rotations problems, and so we can't conclude that it is indeed the right model only by ruling out another
did you make that intro music?
I commissioned it from a friend! He and I actually met at an event where Stephen Pinker was giving a talk :)