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A wiring demon meets socialized humans and calibrated photometers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Michael H. Brill
Michael H. Brill
Affiliation:
Sarnoff Corporation, CN 5300, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300 [email protected]
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Abstract

Ignoring consciousness, I apply Palmer's ideas to a photometer, for which calibration is analogous to socialization of humans to agree in color. Some attributes of the photometer – such as its aperture – do not need to be known because their values are transparent to calibration. But a writing demon can wreak havoc if it permutes measured values before interpolation completes calibration – as happens in Palmer's color rewirings.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 948 - 949
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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