Interesting. I once saw a documentary where a man wore glasses that turned everything upside down as an experiment. After a few weeks he adapted to it and was able to drive a car and fly a plane. When he took the glasses off, he once again saw everything upside down.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/303/3701026-786a0853 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
