Hi Dag,
There is one question that, since you study
sleep-correlated dynamics, I'm hoping you
can answer.
How does the brain feed-forward to the
retina during dream-sleep?
[This is the =only= 'place' that the position
I'm discussing can be successfully(?) attacked.]
ken [k. p. collins]
"Dag Stenberg" <dag.stenberg at nospam.helsinki.fi.invalid> wrote in message
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> In bionet.neuroscience k p Collins <kpaulc@[----------]earthlink.net>
wrote:
> > "k p Collins" <kpaulc@[----------]earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:af0Pb.15869$q4.5300 at newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...> >> > >That is, "vision" is nothing more than the map-
> >> > >ping of light onto the retina.
> >
> > The neural Topology is for doing all of this information-
> > processing. It can't waste energy doing stuff that'd only
> > impose huge complication in the midst of the rest of what
> > it must accomplish, precisely because all of that complicated
> > stuff is already being done in the retina, and would be totally-
> > redundant if it were recreated internally.
>> I cannot help thinking that it would be useful if Ken read just a tiny
> bit of visual physiology in between. There is a whole lot going on after
> the retina, and it is not all point-to-point projection either. Please
> read up in any modern textbook.
>> Dag Stenberg