"'What we think of as a single, simple process,' Weber wrote, 'is in fact a long assembly line. Vision requires careful coordination between thirty-two or more separate brain modules. Recognizing a face takes at least two dozen.'"
— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Picador
Date
2006
Metaphor
"'What we think of as a single, simple process,' Weber wrote, 'is in fact a long assembly line. Vision requires careful coordination between thirty-two or more separate brain modules. Recognizing a face takes at least two dozen.'"
Metaphor in Context
"What we think of as a single, simple process," Weber wrote,
is in fact a long assembly line. Vision requires careful coordination between thirty-two or more separate brain modules. Recognizing a face takes at least two dozen ... We are hard-wired for finding faces. Two Oreo cookies and a carrot make an infant howl or laugh. Only: the many, delicate hard-wires between modules can break at several different spots. ...
(p. 149)
is in fact a long assembly line. Vision requires careful coordination between thirty-two or more separate brain modules. Recognizing a face takes at least two dozen ... We are hard-wired for finding faces. Two Oreo cookies and a carrot make an infant howl or laugh. Only: the many, delicate hard-wires between modules can break at several different spots. ...
(p. 149)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (New York: Picador, 2006).
Date of Entry
06/08/2015
