Coming to our senses: perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Structure of Reality

Theory Promotes Disaster

The Origins and Nature of Structural Information

The USS Missouri: Saved by Structural Information

A Contrasting View: Signal Detection Theory

Our Complex Perceptual Systems and Structural Information: J.J. Gibson's View

Complex Systems and Structural Information

Seeing What We Believe: How the Mind Hijacks the Senses

2. Perceiving Structure

Recognition and Structural Information

Altering Facial Proportions Disrupts Recognition

Caregiving by Configuration

Facial Structure

Face Blindness and Super-Recognizers

What's Wrong With Eyewitness Testimony?

Why Features Fail as Evidence

Our Atomistic Worldview Leads Us Astray

3. Perceiving Dynamics

Dynamic Structural Information

The Oscillating Figure Eight Reveals Identity

Do We Have Memories of Structural Information?

Our Brain-World Interface

Navigation Grids and Place Cells

Walking in Other People's-Moccasins

Experiencing Empathy

4. Restructuring Reality

Clouded Vision

Controlling Nature: Eliminating Tributaries and Meanders

The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Restoring a Meander

Structural Pattern Generators and Natural Structures

Branching

Spirals

Meanders

Six-Sided Symmetry

5. Reality's Geometry

Bacteria's Oorum Sensing

Immune Cells Communicate Using Structural Configurations

Volatile Compounds Send Structured Aromatic Messages

Animal-Environment Reciprocities

Frogs

Crows

The Hawk-Goose Configuration

Mating, Foraging, and Escaping

Indigo Bunting Migration

Human-Environment Affordances

Perceiving and Representing Structural Information

Benoit Mandelbrot's Fractal Geometry

Our Fractal Brain

6. Experts' Experts "Repetitions Without Repetition"

Minimally Essential Information

Experts' Experts Rely on Structural Information

Diagnosing Injuries: Reading the Dynamics of Deviation

Curing Pain in the Brain: How the Brain Restructures Reality

Diagnosing Cancer: Pathology and Structural Information

Condensing the Structure of Reality: The Japanese Garden

Reading the Seascape: Sea Gypsies Survive a Tsunami

Translating Structure Into Words

7. Mind Over Matter: Theories as Mental Fall-out

Where Do Theories Come From?

Theories and the Brain

Hijacking the Interpreter

Two Widely Accepted Unsubstantiated Theories That Threaten Our Survival

How to Judge a Theory

8. Are Scientific Theories Different?

Alfred Wegener and the Theory of Continental Drift i

Barbara McClintock and Her Perception of Jumping Genes

How Science Can Progress by Extending Our Eyes

Theories and Complexity

9. Are Economic Theories Different?

Replacing Reality: The Evolution of the Derivative

Seeing the Structural Information That Reveals the Market

The Sad Saga of Brooksley Born and the American Taxpayer

An Alternate Theory of the Economy

10. Complexity, Components, and Monocultures

Death by Financial Concept

Viral Components and Complex Systems

Turning Sustainable Complexity Into Unsustainable Simplicity

Food Economies as Complex Systems

A Sustainable Complex System: Polyface Family Farm

From Complexity to Simplicity: Whole Grains to Empty Calories

From Nutritional Simplicity to Obesity.