Keith Wilson @keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org

“Never stop. No matter how many failures. When you know you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you have to try.” #TedLasso #AppleTVPlus

“Over the course of a lifetime, an average Norwegian consumes 1,203 animals:

6 cows, 28 pigs, 24 sheep, 3 reindeer/deer, 1,137 chickens, and varying numbers of small game, horses, goats, and rabbits.”

#LifeInNorway #OsloHistoriskMuseum #Norway #UniversityOfOslo

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Very happy to have contributed a chapter to this fine collection on the #PhilosophyOfSmell. In it, I focus on the implications of the #temporalStructure of #olfactoryExperience for the #metaphysics and #philosophy of #olfaction, and #perceptualExperience more generally.

In particular, I argue that some (though not all) objects of olfactory experience are temporally extended. This includes both objective properties of the external environment, e.g. concentration gradients, and interactions between odorants and our sensory apparatus at the receptor level.

This makes olfactory experience observer- or perspective-dependent without rendering it subjective or mind-dependent in any philosophically substantive sense. It also opens up the possibility of an event-based metaphysics of olfactory experience.

Along with the rest of the volume, the chapter can be accessed online here: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207801.

Many thanks to the editors, Ben Young and Andreas Keller, and other contributors for helpful comments and feedback. I look forward to reading the other chapters!

#newPublication #PhilosophyOfPerception #temporalExperience #theSenses #noxp

“#Apple is willing to outfit us with a few flimsy tools to help us keep healthy relationships with our phones, but it’s also willing to sell you a screen to literally keep strapped to your face.” #VisionPro https://www.theverge.com/23751675/apple-vision-pro-vr-headset-ios-17-mental-health-mood-journal

Tehre is shtonemig wonrg wtih tihs ptucrie. 😵‍💫 (Hint: it’s not the text on the slide!)

#Apple is right to herald the arrival of a new computing paradigm, which it calls #spatialComputing. Though I prefer the label #immersiveComputing as the central aim is to create an experience in which the user seems to inhabit the interface which augments and extends the surrounding physical environment. This also avoids prioritising the visual modality since this paradigm will in time extend to tactile, olfactory and even gustatory stimuli. #VisionPro #UX

For anyone who’s interested, the take-home message is that visual experience involves surface colour in preference to what philosophers call apparent colour (Bob calls this colour ‘sensation’, though I think his use of this term is idiosyncratic), so the traditional picture according to which we ‘first’ experience apparent colour and merely infer surface colours is incorrect. #perception #philosophy

I think I’ve heard at least four different versions of this talk on colour perception by renowned vision scientist #BobKentridge. Each time I’m struck by its simplicity, elegance and explanatory power. 🙌 🌈 #philosophy #perception #colour #vision

I almost went to the wrong conference by mistake! 😅 #practicalIncompetence #academia

This review hits the nail on the head: #Apple’s #VisionPro is not a standard #VR headset. Instead it’s a new kind of wearable computer in which the user interface is structured around the environment. This explains the high cost of the device and will be a major differentiator for Apple. #AugmentedReality #AR #MR #spatialComputing #WWDC2023 https://apple.news/ABHGw32NUSjSsOZnlK2Yhfg

I get that #Apple is doing everything it can to make AR cool, but a pair of high-tech ski goggles that displays a simulated image of your eyes still looks kind of kooky to me. 🥽 🤷‍♂️ #AppleVisionPro