subject to this and that

"Although we have the illusion of receiving high-resolution images from our eyes, what the optic nerve actually sends to the brain is just outlines and clues about points of interest in our visual field. We then essentially hallucinate the world from cortical memories that interpret a series of extremely low-resolution movies that arrive in parallel channels." -Ray Kurzweil The Singularity is Near p. 186

I was wondering about the kinds of geometries that our brain's architecture allows us to see and whether today's forteana might be tomorrow's everyday ordinary shit.

(and also how the cerebellum's architecture allows us to do what we do.)

plastic brains are now available.