Thursday, 19 May 2011

The Emerging Mind: The Reith Lectures 2003 by Dr V S. Ramachandran. Profile Books Limited, 2003, London

One common fallacy is to assume there is an image inside your eyeball, the optical image, exciting photo-receptors on your retina and then that image is transmitted faithfully along a cable called the optic nerve and displayed on a screen called the visual cortex. This is obviously a logical fallacy because if you have an image displayed on a screen in the brain, then you have to have someone else in the watching that image, and that someone needs someone else in his head, and so on ad infinitum.

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