Hi all, I recently had eye surgery to implant an IOL. Apparetly they overshot a bit with their laser and altered my eye so points of light look like little Mercedes emblems with three streaks leading out from each point - similar to the images produced by some astronomical telescopes. However, the central point is NOT much if any brighter than the rays. You might imagine this results in a VERY blurry image, but it doesn't. Apparently, my eye has quickly developed the inverse transform that actually USES this to improve images. This was really annoying for night driving (where there is too much variability to inversely transform), until I realized that I could use the streaks as a range finder for night-time driving. In this case, when a streak is about as long as the distance between tail lights, it means that the car in front of me is ~6 seconds ahead of me (at freeway speeds). This makes it easy to recognize when I am closing on the car in front of me, even when I am far away from it.
It has only been a month since the surgery, and the streaks are getting thinner with time, so it is possible that I will lose my newfound rangefinder during the next couple of months. This has interesting implications for both neuroscience and AGI, because it sugggests a process where correlations between many inputs act to adjust their consideration so that taken together they act as a single input. I wonder how many such groups of inputs a neuron can have and still keep track of the correlations, etc? Thoughts? Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
