Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Philosophy Wire: Through the looking glass…

Signals sent from the retina to the brain have a lot of background noise, yet we see the world clearly. Researchers show that to achieve visual clarity the brain must accurately measure how this noise is distributed across neurons when processing the signals sent down the optic nerve. These results are likely to shape the design of future retinal prosthetics and other brain-machine interfaces. [1] Look at the cosmos. It looks so clear. Only because it is obscured by noise. Noise making everything the same. Chaos causing patterns and order to emerge. A sea so deep that makes you feel it is calm. Can you swim? Can you laugh in the rain? Accept the noise in the forest. And you will understand what the forest tried to conceal from you in the first place. (There is no forest)

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