Is consciousness really discontinuous, incessantly interrupted and recommencing (from the psychologist’s point of view)? and does it only seem continuous to itself by an illusion analogous to that of the zoetrope?
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Zoetrope
//ˈzəʊɪtɹəʊp//
Synonyms for "zoetrope" (2 found)
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3 translations across 3 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 西洋鏡 /西洋镜 noun (optical toy)
Finnish
1 entries- zoetrooppi noun (optical toy)
Russian
1 entries- зоотро́п noun (optical toy)
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This was the way I passed through the remainder of my childhood. The zoetrope span smoothly, time’s Chief Designer narrowed the legs of trousers and decreed that the cars should be more aerodynamic.
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The Rosenbloom Loop is a clever little device, but it’s an even more clever symbol of the role that discipline plays in the creation of illusion: the persistence of vision that makes sequential still images appear to move. In a sense, that’s the wizardry that Grand spins in this zoetrope of a novel as these characters love and build and pine and die.
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