Staring at the sun, is a wonderful true story about the search for truth by the founder of experimental psychology, Gustav Fechner (1850). Fechner was interested in understanding how physical stimulus was related to perception. More specifically he was interested in afterimages, which is a perceptual anomaly where the sensory information coming in doesn't match our perception. To understand how the strength of sensory information effected the strength of a perception, Fechner began looking at afterimages caused by different intensities in light. Eventually coming to the sun, which he did stare at and was blinded by for a few years.
He performed poorly shortly after as professor of physics at Leipzig and fell off the map. In this time he wrote some of his best poetry under the name Dr. Mises, and one day after his eyesight had been fully restored had an eureka moment, and successfully connected the physical and mental realms together in one beautiful equation which gave birth to experimental psychology.
This song is Fechner's Law, to me at least.
Thrice rules, seen 'em 5 times here in the D.
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Staring at the sun, is a wonderful true story about the search for truth by the founder of experimental psychology, Gustav Fechner (1850). Fechner was interested in understanding how physical stimulus was related to perception. More specifically he was interested in afterimages, which is a perceptual anomaly where the sensory information coming in doesn't match our perception. To understand how the strength of sensory information effected the strength of a perception, Fechner began looking at afterimages caused by different intensities in light. Eventually coming to the sun, which he did stare at and was blinded by for a few years. He performed poorly shortly after as professor of physics at Leipzig and fell off the map. In this time he wrote some of his best poetry under the name Dr. Mises, and one day after his eyesight had been fully restored had an eureka moment, and successfully connected the physical and mental realms together in one beautiful equation which gave birth to experimental psychology.
This song is Fechner's Law, to me at least. Thrice rules, seen 'em 5 times here in the D.