Technologically Augmented Perception

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RMCM^© - The Rational Model of Complex Mechanisms^©

TAP^©

Technologically Augmented Perception^©

1. We employ technology to acquire capacity beyond our organic constraints. We acquire this greater capacity to increase our capacity for expression. The Rational Model of Complex Mechanisms asserts 21 simple conditions whose expression urge our persistent acquisition.

2. Increasing sensory capacity has been an especially vigorous technological pursuit by both men and women since knowledge became codified. Of concern are those technologies likely to fail increasing our knowledge of the universe and the origin of life. Those that extend and enhance (augment) the capacity of an individual's sensory perception.

3. Our senses are classified into Cutaneous (skin) senses, Kinesthetic (motion) sense, Vestibular sense (equilibrium), Gustatory (taste) sense, and Olfactory (smell) sense. The five senses ordinarily enumerated for animals include sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Other senses include the senses of heat, cold, pressure, and pain; sensory reception in living organisms other than man: chemoreception; mechanoreception; photoreception; sound reception; thermoreception [1].

4. If we can't see it, taste it, hear it, smell it, or touch it, then we build a machine to do so on our behalf. We have profoundly increased not only our sensory capacities, but also our capacity to store these experiences for future use ,[ac-to-mod]technological reflection[/ac-to-mod].

5. An encapsulation primarily of modern man beginning clearly with musical instruments [2] and followed by glass lenses [3] a long time later, the extending of human sensory perception has come so far and, recently, so suddenly that we may shortly be able to reach right down to the photon and discover evidence of things even simpler, even smaller.

6. To be sure, TAP is very specific. While dance, sport, music, art, writing, measuring, and calculating employ technology and augment perception and its storage, Technologically Augmented Perception is innate. TAP tightly encapsulates a direct or causal inorganic sensory extension. Examples would include telescopes, microscopes, microphones, hearing aids, loud speakers, gas detectors, analog phonographs and video displays. TAP includes attributes of modern technology as well, although TAP excludes the attributes of new technology that employ probability, approximation, irrational numbers, and interpretation themselves as sensory proxies. This tight constraint is important because we are at the precipice of knowledge beyond the photon [4]. We are on the precipice of knowledge about all of that which persists (exists) within The Rational (the universe) at frequencies between the speed of light "C" and the speed of light squared "C²" - the C and C² made famous by E=MC² .

7. The wall to understanding that lies ahead of Science, is the capacity of light itself to illuminate the unknown.

[1] sense. (2008). Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite.

[2] "Musical instruments are almost universal components of human culture: archaeology has revealed pipes and whistles in the Paleolithic Period and clay drums and shell trumpets in the Neolithic age. It has been firmly established that the ancient city cultures of Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, India, East Asia, and the Americas all possessed diverse and well-developed assortments of musical instruments, indicating that a long previous development must have existed. As to the origin of musical instruments, however, there can be only conjecture. Some scholars have speculated that the first instruments were derived from such utilitarian objects as cooking pots (drums) and hunting bows (musical bows); others have argued that instruments of music might well have preceded pots and bows; while in the myths of cultures throughout the world the origin of music has frequently been attributed to the gods, especially in areas where music seems to have been regarded as an essential component of the ritual believed necessary for spiritual survival.
musical instrument. (2008). Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite. "

[3] In 1268 Roger Bacon made the earliest recorded comment on the use of lenses for optical purposes, but magnifying lenses inserted in frames were used for reading both in Europe and China at this time, and it is a matter of controversy whether the West learned from the East or vice versa. In Europe eyeglasses first appeared in Italy, their introduction being attributed to Alessandro di Spina of Florence. The first portrait to show eyeglasses is that of Hugh of Provence by Tommaso da Modena, painted in 1352. In 1480 Domenico Ghirlandaio painted St. Jerome at a desk from which dangled eyeglasses; as a result, St. Jerome became the patron saint of the spectacle-makers' guild. The earliest glasses had convex lenses to aid farsightedness. A concave lens for myopia, or nearsightedness, is first evident in the portrait of Pope Leo X painted by Raphael in 1517.
eyeglasses. (2008). Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite.

[4] " ... also called Light Quantum, minute energy packet of electromagnetic radiation. The concept originated (1905) in Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect, in which he proposed the existence of discrete energy packets during the transmission of light. Earlier (1900), the German physicist Max Planck had prepared the way for the concept by explaining that heat radiation is emitted and absorbed in distinct units, or quanta. The concept came into general use after the U.S. physicist Arthur H. Compton demonstrated (1923) the corpuscular nature of X-rays. The term photon (from Greek phōs, phōtos, light), however, was not used until 1926. The energy of a photon depends on radiation frequency; there are photons of all energies from high-energy gamma- and X-rays, through visible light, to low-energy infrared and radio waves. All photons travel at the speed of light. Considered among the subatomic particles, photons are bosons, having no electric charge or rest mass and one unit of spin; they are field particles that are thought to be the carriers of the electromagnetic field.
photon. (2008). Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite."

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