Fascinating. Thanks, Stephen. That seems exactly on point. I experience
number 3.
Incidentally, I appreciate your sympathy. Fortunately, I experience no
pain with these hallucinations.
Frank
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Frank Wimberly
My memoir:
Frank,
Sorry you're experiencing migraines - no fun! On the upside, the
mathematician in you may appreciate the opportunity of direct observation
of potentially interesting feedback phenomena.
Jack Cowan, one of Stu's mentors, gave a nice talk at BioGroups back in
2001 on geometric patterns
Also called optical migraines. I experience them as perfect, complex,
geometric patterns which scintillate and exhibit various colors. How does
that come about from the glop that is my brain or retina or whatever? It's
all glop.
Frank
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Frank Wimberly
My
Addendum to the narrative below: I suggested that 'spill' and 'flush' were,
sort of, synonyms. That is wrong. They are actually good metaphors for each
other. If you understand 'spill' for instance, the term suggests a number of
referents (in this case, definitional/usage variants) that are
Nick, if you are looking for an adequate explanation of (self-)consciousness
then a simultaneous fascination and frustration might not be a completely
wrong. IMHO self-consciousness is marked by this strange combination of
opposites: a fascinating insight in a frustrating confusion. Fascinating
Nick's "simultaneous fascination and frustration with FRIAM" sounds like a
recipe for complex discussions. Why exactly is Nick frustrated? -Jochen
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