23 Facts About Gustav Fechner

Some biographers consider, that despite these religious influences, Gustav Fechner became an atheist in later life, while the others says that Gustav Fechner had his own religious system as a synthesis of Christianity and paganism.

Gustav Fechner died unexpectedly in 1806, leaving the family destitute.

Gustav Fechner had an elder brother, Eduard Clemens Gustav Fechner and three younger sisters: Emilie, Clementine, and Mathilde.

Whilst lying in bed, Gustav Fechner had an insight into the relationship between mental sensations and material sensations.

Gustav Fechner published chemical and physical papers, and translated chemical works by Jean-Baptiste Biot and Louis Jacques Thenard from French.

Gustav Fechner started from the monistic thought that bodily facts and conscious facts, though not reducible one to the other, are different sides of one reality.

Gustav Fechner proposed, in his famous 1961 paper entitled "To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law", that intensity of stimulation is related to perception via a power-law.

Gustav Fechner's reasoning has been criticized on the grounds that although stimuli are composite, sensations are not.

Gustav Fechner later explored experimental aesthetics and attempted to determine the shapes and dimensions of aesthetically pleasing objects, using as a database the sizes of paintings.

In 1871, Gustav Fechner reported the first empirical survey of coloured letter photisms among 73 synesthetes.

Gustav Fechner's work was followed in the 1880s by that of Francis Galton.

Gustav Fechner speculated that if the corpus callosum were split, two separate streams of consciousness would result - the mind would become two.

Yet, Gustav Fechner believed that his theory would never be tested; he was incorrect.

Gustav Fechner constructed ten rectangles with different ratios of width to length and asked numerous observers to choose the "best" and "worst" rectangle shape.

Gustav Fechner was concerned with the visual appeal of rectangles with different proportions.

However, there has been some ongoing dispute on the experiment itself, as the fact that Gustav Fechner deliberately discarded results of the study ill-fitting to his needs became known, with many mathematicians, including Mario Livio, refuting the result of the experiment.

In 1861, Gustav Fechner reported that if he looked at a light with a darkened piece of glass over one eye then closed that eye, the light appeared to become brighter, even though less light was coming into his eyes.

The composer Gustav Mahler read Fechner as a student, and he identified with Fechner when writing his Second Symphony, his Third, and Das Lied von der Erde.

Furthermore, he influenced Sigmund Freud, who refers to Gustav Fechner when introducing the concept of psychic locality in his The Interpretation of Dreams that he illustrates with the microscope-metaphor.

Gustav Fechner felt the thrill of life everywhere, in plants, earth, stars, the total universe.

Gustav Fechner believed that human beings stand midway between the souls of plants and the souls of stars, who are angels.

Gustav Fechner conducted experiments to show that certain abstract forms and proportions are naturally pleasing to our senses, and gave some new illustrations of the working of aesthetic association.

The conference is scheduled to include 22 October to allow psychophysicists to celebrate the anniversary of Gustav Fechner's waking up on that day in 1850 with a new approach into how to study the mind.