A remarkable point of view: Egon Brunswick's Lens Model

Vienna during the dawn of the 20th century was a remarkable place.

The list of residents - and their ideas - shaping the century is exhaustive.

The most knows: Freud and Hitler.

The known to the many: Edward Bernays, Peter Drucker, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kurt Goedel, Artur Schnitzler, Robert Musil,... to mention a few important to me.

The Psychologist Egon Brunswick is a true maverik. Although only a small inner circle is aware of his work, he did some remarkable thinking.

Representative Design

Is a true theory how to to capture reality into your experimental setting

Ecological Validity is a theory how a subject's intepretation relates to real world

Vicarious Function is a true idea how this interpretation goes.

Probabilistic Functionalism is a scientific revolution, that could relieve us from the analytic trap: get rid of simplistic models.

Brunswick Lens Model has shown to predict better than experts the lens model was trained on. Thats a fascinating way: augmented intellect.


I will deepen my Brunswickan knowledge and share it on this blog
Read about current Brunswickian Research on http://www.albany.edu/cpr/brunswik/newsletters/2009news.pdf