我们如何看见，又如何思考 – We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think by Richard Masland

每一天睁开眼，我们就在接收来自外界的信息，我们的眼睛究竟是如何承载这个世界的信息的，又是如何传递到我们的大脑的？人人都说眼睛是心灵和灵魂的窗户，这又是为什么？

在人群中要找一张熟悉的脸是再简单不过的事，我们习以为常。但是人类是怎么办到这件事的，这是科学界最重要的谜题之一 。我们大脑的运作有三分之一与视觉相关。基本上，科学家要讲清楚人类是如何看见感知人事物的，背后牵连到人类独特的认知本能。

哈佛大学医学院特聘教授、眼科学家及脑神经科学家理查德·马斯兰在本书中试图以科学的角度来解释人类如何透过双眼与大脑去感知、学习与记忆。

从光线射到视网膜，到脑部的神经网络如何把光线承载的信息转化成人脑可以辨识与运用的知识，到计算机算法要具有什么样的功能才能被称为“人工智能”，再到我们在回忆过去时为什么会呈现出一种第三人视角……

这是一场深刻但并非不可知的探索，让我们一同探索我们的身体对这个世界的理解吧。

A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.

Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science’s great mysteries. And vision is involved with so much of everything your brain does. Explaining how it works reveals more than just how you see. In We Know It When We See It, Harvard neuroscientist Richard Masland tackles vital questions about how the brain processes information — how it perceives, learns, and remembers — through a careful study of the inner life of the eye.

Covering everything from what happens when light hits your retina, to the increasingly sophisticated nerve nets that turn that light into knowledge, to what a computer algorithm must be able to do before it can be called truly “intelligent,” We Know It When We See It is a profound yet approachable investigation into how our bodies make sense of the world.

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