Friday 7 October 2016

THE PALE KING (DAVID FOSTER WALLACE) AND THE INTRINSIC MISTAKE IN MEASURE

 ‘If you´re pretty,’ Meredith says, ‘it can be hard to respect guys.’
I can understand that,’ Drinion says.
Because you never even get to see what they might really be like. Because the minute you´re around, they change; if they´ve decided you´re beautiful, they change. It´s like the thing un physics- if you´re there to look at the experiment, it supposedly messes up the results’
There´s a paradox involved in it’, Drinion says


Meredith says that the thing you watch changes because of your own look, but even more is important is that the observator also changes. She doesn´t respect guys now. Obviously all of us influence each other.
Physics can minimize this influence.
As a fellow countryman said ‘the eyes that you see is not an eye because you see it, it is an eye because it sees you’, and I think the quote is appropriate. In a José Cervera´s talk I discovered that the human eye was the only eye with a white sclerotic and that´s why you can know where a human is gazing. This fact has lots of social and evolutive connotations, all of which I must admit I don´t remenber .

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