Philosophy Salon with The Paradox Lab: Sensory Illusions

Join us for a mind-bending salon about sensory illusions.

Vision presents to us a world carved into objects, with colors and shapes and depth. Hearing gives us sounds with locations and causes. Taste gives us flavors, of sour and sweet, and strawberry and cinnamon. But sometimes we see with our ears and taste with our eyes!

Is the world really as we experience it, and are our experiences the same? Bring your own questions and observations as we explore the ways our senses are fooled and what it reveals about the gap between the world and our minds.

Led by Dr. Iris Oved, the founder and director of The Paradox Lab —a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that brings the joys and tools of philosophical inquiry and critical thinking to kids and kids at heart. You can access her resources and join her mission at www.ParadoxLab.org and on Instagram @theparadoxlab.

Dr. Oved is also an active researcher in philosophy and cognitive science, with a focus on learning in humans and machines. She has found that explanation plays a key role in how we learn to break up the world into kinds and categories, like CAT, WATER, TEACHER, and BOOK. She tests this idea by building computational models of toddlers that learn such categories by playing with the objects around them.

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