How to Think Straight about Psychology

我們最初關於運動的世俗理解是非常模糊及混亂的，而且最終將被更成熟的理論完全取代。我們早期關於天堂的結構及活動的世俗理解也是完全離譜的，它們之所以依然存留下來，只不過是作為一些歷史的教訓，讓我們知道自己可以錯到什麼地步。我們關於火的本質以及生活本質的世俗理解也同樣愚蠢。既然過去許多世俗想法都被推翻了，所以我們可以一直這樣數落下去....，但是有關人類的心智活動這一現象，要比前述任何現象複雜和難以理解的多。如果我們對其他事情的理解都這麼糟糕，那麼，想在一開始就正確地認識心理學知識，簡直就是天方夜譚。

─哲學家 Churchland（1988）

Beneath the Surface

If we grant gadgetry an ever-increasing role in the acquisition of data on our environment, how much will it begin to influence our own perspective on the world?Is the technology nothing more than a means of representing the world?Or have synthetically generated images long since become the blueprint for our own perceptions and memories?

In an age in which technology expands the horizons of possibility, film is an art form dedicated to testing the limits if human perception. So it should come as no surprise to us that movies have continued to voice the suspicion that life itself is nothing more than a brilliantly fabricated illusion.

─from "Best Movies of the 80s", p.13