Thursday, 26 June 2008

The Roman Forum

Every time I've tried to take pictures from moving vehicles on this trip, I've been struck by how superior the human eye is to even the latest camera equipment. I can look at a scene, focus on it, compensate for vehicle movement, and distinguish it from surrounding objects in a way that neither the camera on this phone, nor the one that's "just" a digital camera are capable of doing. If what we can make, with all our advanced technology, is so far behind something we can't make (a human eye), it seems pretty close to the proof the rationalists keep asking for, that there's a greater intelligence than theirs!