Tag Archive: Gestalt

Understanding Regularities 7: Organized Organisms

Organisms are both physical as well as experiential beings and it always useful to be accurate about when we are talking about one or the other. For example, it is well known that we have a blind spot in our visual field, where the optic nerve meets the retina. As far as the physical being…

Understanding Regularities 5: Regular Gestalts

It is easy to think of a regularity as a platonic ideal, an eternal form that regulates a particular phenomenon or process. However, the platonic regularity is not the view I have in mind. In fact,  a regularity is a pattern that regulates the response of an organism to  its surroundings in the here and…