In the book "Complexity" by Roger Lewin (1993) there is some mention of
a visual disorder suffered by one of the interviewees (Chris Langton).
After an accident with a hang-glider he felt he was not the person he
used to be, and this was accompanied by an altered perception of visual
space, described as follows:
...Chris felt he was living in the middle of a cube, the sides of
which were cinema screens with pictures projected on them. "It's
hard to describe," he told me. "It was as if I could see the world,
but somehow I wasn't in it, no emotional presence."
(Beginning of chapter 8, page 151 in Phoenix ed.)
Has anyone heard of similar cases? Is there a name for this condition?
Has it been studied in detail? Seems to me that anomalies of this sort
could give us important clues to the nature of our stereoscopic vision.
--
Tore Lund <tl001 at online.no>
