"John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Ed Cryer wrote:
>> "Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>>> Johannes Patruus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/4wgpxr
>>>>>
>>>>> But would we really need a billion-pixels version of that? -
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/3tefrg
>>>>>
>>>>> Patruus
>>>>>
>>>> A hundred and fifty years ago the German scientist Hermann von
>>>> Helmholtz studied the human eye and declared how inefficient it
>>>> was.
>>>> He said that a good camera of the time was better.
>>>> Ah, so now we have this up-and-coming super-high-definition
>>>> thingamabob which will make the eye even more pass. Take pictures
>>>> with it, look at them and ask "Where the devil did that bit there
>>>> come from? I didn't see that".
>>>
>>> "The eye is often described as like a camera, but it is the quite
>>> uncamera-like features of perception which are most interesting. How
>>> is information from the eyes coded in neural terms, into the
>>> language
>>> of the brain, and reconstituted into experience of surrounding
>>> objects? . . . There is a temptation, which must be avoided, to say
>>> that the eyes produce pictures in the brain. A picture in the brain
>>> suggests the need of some kind of internal eye to see it - but this
>>> would need a further eye to see *its* picture . . . and so on in an
>>> endless regress of eyes and pictures."
>>> (R L Gregory, "Eye and Brain", London, 1966)
>>>
>>> Patruus
>>
>> Ah yes, the human brain; the most complex organism in nature. But how
>> the devil does it produce mind? It baffles me, it's baffled the
>> greatest minds of scientists and philosophers through the ages; and
>> it baffles Dr. Jonathan Miller.
>> You live in London; I live in a grotty northern town. Melvyn Bragg
>> comes from Newcastle and seems to be living the intellectual
>> high-life that I feel should be mine.
>
> Ahem! ***berland not Northumberland! (***bria not Northumbria...)
>
> His title is Baron Bragg, of Wigton in the County of ***bria. To be
> fair, he was born there - as was the rather more famous Sir William,
> although not his equally (or more so) son, Sir Lawrence.
> --
> John Briggs
>
Right, thanks for that. I'm glad to know it. It puts him on the same
side of the country as me; about as far north of Lakeland as I am south
of it. I guess I should have known he was no Geordie.
Ed
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