Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

Nick, On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 8:32 PM wrote: > And always, always, remember that you are looking through the blood supply > to your retina because it is mounted backwards. There must be an enormous > amount of error correction going on. > Language like that might well get you kicked out of

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

And always, always, remember that you are looking through the blood supply to your retina because it is mounted backwards. There must be an enormous amount of error correction going on. Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

I am going ot the MAPS ( https://maps.org/event/psychedelic-science-2023/0 Conference in Denver next summer and will report on the state of research in this area. BTW—and not for purposes of extending discussion—those who I am channeling DO, in fact, advocate for embodied and macro-minds, not

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

No compliment so cleverly crafted that it cannot be twisted into an insult. It seems like misinformation, whether our con-specifics are purposefully lying to us or just being so badly informed that they're not even right twice a day, is the actual human condition. So the massive nervous system

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

Jack Cowan hung around the office for a week after his lecture. We had a ping pong table in the break area at Bios and hebecame my partner. We beat all double challengers at the office for that full week (cc said challengers: Rich Harris, Keith Hunter, Brian Birk, Mohammed) :-) Stu later let me

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 5:23 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Steve Smith writes: > > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get involved > in modulating these processes. > > Jack (not George) Cowan gave a great lecture at BiosGroup in 2000 on this > very topic: > > " What

[FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

Steve Smith writes: > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get involved in modulating these processes. Jack (not George) Cowan gave a great lecture at BiosGroup in 2000 on this very topic: " What geometric visual hallucinations tell us about the visual cortex"