Do Artists See Differently?

James Gurney paints a pile of firewood in watercolor and gouache. As he progresses, he describes the strategies of seeing that help him concentrate on what's important at each stage.
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This leads to the question about whether artists really see the world differently from non-artists and how they're trained to focus their attention in selective ways.
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Gurney introduces the current scientific idea that visual perception being driven at least as much by top-down processing as by bottom-up processing, and he refers to the work of two cognitive scientists in this area:

Donald Hoffman: (TED Talk "Do We Really See Reality as it Is?")    • Do we see reality as it is? | Donald ...  

Robin Carhart-Harris (Mindscape Podcast --start at 33:00)
   • Mindscape Episode 82 | Robin Carhart-...  

Website: "What is Top-Down Processing?"
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-...

Richard Feynman on fire as stored sunlight:
https://bigthink.com/surprising-scien...

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