In article <3234A298.7F19 at postoffice.worldnet.att.net>, kenneth paul collins (KPCollins at postoffice.worldnet.att.net) writes:
>...BTW, when I was working on this problem back in the late 70s, the way
>I got a handle on it was to draw the neural circuitry on the inside of a
>brown-paper grocery bag, put the bag on my head and walk around my attic
>apartment bumping into things... all the while analyzing the functioning
>of the circuitry I'd diagrammed on the inside of the bag... :-)
>>...as luck would have it, I was garetted... :-)
>>...my attic was a garret... low, slanty ceilings and all... so the head
>stuff got a workout, too... :-)
>>...another serendipitous thing was that, since I'd quit my job to right
>"the paper that would break things open"... I had to use all available
>hours... because I only had about $3k... had to finish the paper in a
>hurry...
>>...so I covered the windows in my sleeping area with black construction
>paper... as luck would have it, when I covered the windows, I'd left a
>tiny hole in the corner of one window pane... one day I awoke
>but, in the transition to waking consciousness, I thought I must be
>still dreaming... one of those dreams that one just experiences as being
>so "real"... their were people walking around, and busses, trucks, and
>cars running around on my ceiling...
>>...but it wasn't a dream... it was just that I was sleeping inside a
>pin-hole camera... and the images from the bright, sunny day on
>the busy street outside my apartment were being projected on my
>ceiling... and they were all upside-down and backward...
>>...thereafter, in my attic... I could "become" the retina, or the
>lateral geniculi, or visual cortex... any daylight hours I wanted to...
>>...put this together with the brown-paper-bag-stumbling-around analysis
>of the neural circuitry, and everything that I'd been working on for the
>9 years prior just imploded toward Unity... sssssshhhWwoooop! :-)
>>...I've worked on a shoestring... got a lot of humorous "stories"... ken
Try holding a pin-hole in an opaque card 13mm in front of the
pupil. With the other hand bring a pin-head (point-down) between
pin-hole and pupil. What do you see?
Gord
