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Point Two: It's demonstrably true that the brain uses impulses from the optic nerve to construct images. Not that you'll do so, but you might read up on the studies in which electrodes have been connected to the brains of cats to see what's happening in the brain as visual impulses come in from the optic nerve. Not only do these electrodes -- which are recording the firing of neurons in the brain -- produce actual images corresponding to what the cat is seeing, if the cat is looking at a person, you can even recognize facial features in those images.
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That was not a clear representation of the man. The guy even said he couldn't help but think the image looked catlike. It could be that the cat's skeleton was being scanned, not the man's face. Did they replicate this study to confirm their hunch? Did they perform the study on other animals? |
That image was created by a computer
that was detecting ONLY neural impulses in the cat's brain as coming from the optic nerve as per TLR's description (Bolded in blue above)
Scanning the cat's skeleton, WTF? You don't even understand how the experiment was set up, do you?
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The team used an array of electrodes embedded in the thalamus (which integrates all of the brain’s sensory input) of sharp-eyed cats. Researchers targeted 177 brain cells in the thalamus lateral geniculate nucleus area, which decodes signals from the retina.
the researchers decoded the signals to generate movies of what the cats saw and were able to reconstruct recognizable scenes and moving objects
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