[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by peacegirl

Why are you handwaving away the fact that dogs cannot identify their masters from a picture or a still video without any other cues?

Since that's not true, I'm not "hand waving away" anything. Why are you ignoring the fact that dozens of independent experiments have conclusively demonstrated that there are many non-human species (including not just mammals, but birds, and apparently even some insects) that can recognize and distinguish between different faces? Why have you outright stated that you wouldn't read them when provided with links to these experiments?

All of which is beside the point anyway, since there's no particular reason we'd expect non-human animals to be able to recognize and distinguish between faces.

If you believe that Lessans is so wrong and I'm just a believer, why are you here?

I have a duty to confront lies and hypocrisy masquerading as science.

You seem really upset, and I don't want you to feel that way.

You're wrong on at least one of those claims, and likely both of them.


I have a hypothetical for you. Let us suppose that someone sets up a digital video camera in ... let's say, China. Heck, let's be more specific and say Beijing. The camera is turned on and pointed at an eye chart.

The impulses the camera generates are beamed to a satellite, which relays them to a receiver (not a video screen, a receiver) in ... let's say, California. Heck, let's say Los Angeles.

The impulses are relayed directly to a person's visual cortex.

Now, note that there are no video screens involved at all -- no "pixels."

So, if the person at the end of this chain -- literally on the other side of the world -- can identify the letters on the eye chart, would this experiment disprove Lessans' claims regarding how we see?


I advise you to think very carefully before answering, by the way ...