[HN Gopher] Joseph Jastrow and his duck - or is it a rabbit? (20...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Joseph Jastrow and his duck - or is it a rabbit? (2004-2020)
        
       Author : dang
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-10-05 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ocf.berkeley.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ocf.berkeley.edu)
        
       | leetrout wrote:
       | Always a rabbit. Ducks bills are never that thick.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Not always!
         | 
         | https://www.dsquintana.blog/the-raven-rabbit-illusion-explan...
         | 
         | https://twitter.com/dsquintana/status/1163083819605475328
         | 
         | https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/us/bird-rabbit-tweet-trnd/ind...
         | 
         | (edit so as not to cheat: I got this from the OP's "Note added
         | August 22, 2019")
        
       | type0 wrote:
       | if it walks like a duck...
        
       | erulabs wrote:
       | Recently became totally enamored with Wittgenstein - one of those
       | thinkers who's core ideas have lived, inarticulate, in my heart,
       | since I was a child: Language has no definite meaning, we operate
       | in a fog of connotation, real communication of meaning is
       | impossible, there is no possible scientific description of every-
       | day concepts like "chair"... So much to be gained from overcoming
       | "the bewitchment of language". Brilliant thinker.
       | 
       | Had no idea the duck-rabbit was attributed to him! Appears
       | attributed incorrectly, but one can see why: The drawing is
       | neither a duck nor a rabbit, while also being both a duck _and_ a
       | rabbit. Ask a toddler if it's a duck and they'll say of course!
       | Ask a philosopher, and they wont be sure! Language is fun (and
       | meaningless!)
       | 
       | If you're in the mood for a nice philosophy lecture, here's a
       | great overview on Wittgenstein:
       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Rb56kZQSk
        
       | rav wrote:
       | Solving the duck-rabbit puzzle in Animal Well gave me such
       | chills. In the beginning of the game the player comes across a
       | room with a duck that quacks at you when you walk by. In a
       | distant corner of the world there's a picture of a duck-rabbit
       | with a passcode. When you enter the passcode in front of the
       | duck, it transforms into a rabbit and warps away through a portal
       | that appears for a brief moment while a spooky sound effect
       | plays.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-10-05 23:00 UTC)