On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Since the mental images we create from ocular receptions are indeed created > from > various cells and neurons and somehow brought to consciousness, everything > we > see is in a continual flux of being imagined; ditto for remembered or > fantasy > images. I'm quite sure the jury has come in with the verdict that seeing > is a > constructive act, not the Cartesian reception image. > wc > > - The function of the visual system is not to transmit an image to the brain; there's nobody up there to look at an image. It's to transmit information about the world up to the brain. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3502_partheno.html
