Only now, it dawns upon men that they have propagated a monstrous error in their belief in language. Fortunately, it is too late now to arrest and turn back the evolutionary process of reason, which had its inception in this belief. Logic itself rests upon assumptions to which nothing in the world of reality corresponds. For example, the correspondence of certain things to one another and the identity of those things at different periods of time are assumptions pure and simple, but the science of logic originated in the positive belief that they were not assumptions at all but established facts. Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Horses Senses:
- Certain physical features that cause one to think and act
- Ingrained behaviour patterns – what and when to do
- Visual
- The largest eyes on the planet – twice that of humans
- 345-355 Vision
- Monocular – each eye has a separate field of view – Front, Side, Rear
- Peripheral
- Binocular 3D images with both eyes and neck free
- Accommodation – adjustment of the lens of the eye in order to focus on objects at various distances
- Blind spots
- Back
- in front of the forehead
- tail and behind
- under head and nose
- 5-15%
It is the same with the science of mathematics which certainly would never have come into existence if mankind had known from the beginning that in all nature there is no perfectly straight line, no true circle, no standard of measurment. “Glaube an die gefundene Wahreheit” – Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Dream and Civilization – The function of the brain which is most encroached upon in slumber is the memory – Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Visual Acuity
- Ability to focus and see the sharpness of detail and contrast – “Sharpness”
- The number of photoreceptors in the retina
- Specialized cells – sensitive to light
- Mammal – Make vision possible
- Cons (to Color) – work only in bright
- Rods – sensitive to changes in light/dark
- Night Vision: Cat > Bat > Horse = Owl = Dog > Human
- Depth Perception – are generally poor at judging distances but can be trained specifically
- Only in a binocular field
- Worse than humans
- Horses have a third eyelid
- Colour Vision – Have 2 cons cells ( humans have 3 )
- More than grey
The logic of dreams – In the Dream, this atavistic relic of humanity manifests its existence within us, for it is the foundation upon which the higher rational faculty developed itself and still develops itself in every individual. Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly – Nietzsche (1844-1900)