PeterWatts_Blindsight

Peter Watts 330 Blindsight
of metal musculature 138, 139 . Sascha's ironic denigration of
TwenCen psychiatry hails not only from (limited) personal
experience, but from a pair of papers 140, 141 that strip away the
mystique from cases of so-called multiple personality disorder.
(Not that there's anything wrong with the concept; merely with its
diagnosis.) The fibrodysplasia variant that kills Chelsea was based
on symptoms described by Kaplan et al. 142 .
And believe it or not, those screaming faces Sarasti used near the
end of the book represent a very real form of statistical analysis:
Chernoff Faces 143 , which are more effective than the usual graphs
and statistical tables at conveying the essential characteristics of a
data set 144 .
136 Weng, J. et al. 2001. Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and
Animals. Science 291: 599-600.
137 Von Melchner, L, et al. 2000. Visual behaviour mediated by retinal
projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature 404: 871-876.
138 Baughman, R.H. 2003. Muscles made from metal. Science 300: 268-269.
139 Weissmüller, J., et al. 2003. Change-induced reversible strain in a metal.
Science 300: 312-315.
140 Piper, A., and Merskey, H. 2004. The Persistence of Folly: A Critical
Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Part I. The Excesses of an
Improbable Concept. Can. J. Psychiatry 49: 592-600.
141 Piper, A., and Merskey, H. 2004. The Persistence of Folly: A Critical
Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Part II. The Defence and
Decline of Multiple Personality or Dissociative Identity Disorder. Can. J.
Psychiatry 49: 678–683.
142 Kaplan, F.S., et al. 1998. The Molecules of Immobility: Searching for the
Skeleton Key. Univ. Pennsylvania Orthopaedic J. 11: 59-66. Available online
at http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ortho/oj/1998/oj11sp98p59.html
143 Chernoff, H. 1973. Using faces to represent points in k-dimensional space
graphically. Journal of the Americal Statistical Association 68:361-368.
144 Wilkinson, L. 1982. An experimental evaluation of multivariate graphical
point representations. Human Factors in Computer Systems: Proceedings.
Gaithersberg, MD, 202-209.