As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
So when presented with any image of the world, what we see is what would have been useful to see in the past.
The image of the world's most famous disabled athlete back on his unmistakable running blades was likely now to become more and more common again.
Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints, translates as an "image of the floating world, " and the scent does seem to evoke an image for me of irises floating in a secluded lake.
And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .
Thursday's announcement promises to change the image of battlefields around the world, as debate rages on whether women can fight like men.
When I gave a TEDGlobal talk on femto photography in June, I began with a reference to Doc Edgerton, a very popular MIT professor of electrical engineering who, in 1964, wowed the world with an image of a bullet in midair, having just passed through an apple.
It is about the capacity of fundamentalists to insist the the world conform to their own image of themselves.
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Because events like Newtown are so destabilizing there is a need to re-find an image of a safe-enough world.
Thanks in large part to homegrown labels that are not only gaining a strong following in Singapore, but are also presenting a stylish image of the city to the world at large.
This debate has crystallized around the defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, whose chest-high tackle on Spain's Xabi Alonso in South Africa was the iconic image of the country's World Cup final defeat.
Fifa has a history of protecting its image rights around World Cups.
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Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
But another extremely challenging task facing the Bush administration is the need to improve the image of the United States around the world, a task made more difficult by allegations of prisoner abuse that have put the Bush administration on the defensive.
"What is so exciting about seeing these films is that they really represent just another conception of cinema, one far more based on the image, less on notions of continuity or creating a real world for the action to take place in, " says Pena.
What has arisen for elites is social enterprise as the solution, a remaking of the world in the image that has made them successful.
When that image of Emmett Till was shown to the world, it stirred up such a burning desire for justice inside African-Americans that it was a part of the foundation of the civil rights movement.
Mr. Wolfe is the editor of Image journal and the author, most recently, of "Beauty Will Save the World" (ISI Books, 2011).
Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.
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Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
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Its businesses have played a critical role in setting the tone for Spain's image abroad and the pace of its involvement around the world.
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His third at Leicester was a mirror image of the one he was to score in the World Cup against Argentina, outrageous control on the volley, a little dink inside the defender and a finish as calm as a Buddhist monk.
The hype of Davos does not present a desired image to the world...something is wrong.
Little adds the tax fails to match Hong Kong's image as a world-class city and that some of his clients are now thinking about leaving.
He slew the image of the unrelentingly macho sport hero and emerged heroically as the world's first all-purpose celebrity athlete.
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