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Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz, a German scientist of the 19th century who studied sight, hearing and sound.

The Pleasures of Life, John Lubbock

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• The Pleasures of Life, John Lubbock
• Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Chris Frith

  Hermann von Helmholtz, a nineteenth-century German physicist and physiologist. He studied sight and hearing and suggested that perception rests on the brain's unconscious inferences.

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