Eye movements are likely only a part of what those projections do. I would wager my meager annual stipend that those same projections mediate eye-hand coordination and many other ways that tie kinesthesis and our sense of surroundings together into coherent action.
You'll never get all that with just V1 projections.
Grabbing my Tome of Bio Neuropsych 101 off the shelf, the kind of thing any freshman in a college neuroscience program has to buy, I see the following:
some axons leave the optic tract to reach sites other than the LGN, inlcuding the superior colliculus(eye movement, but likely aspects of rapid motor eye-hand coordination as well), the diencephalon(circadian rhythms), and midbrain nucleus for the control of pupil size.
It's not just that the LGN does some preprocessing, it's that the visual information heading to the visual cortex also goes to other places as well. Skipping the optic pathway will ignore these other projections, leading to incomplete visual processing even if you perfectly replicate the signal the visual cortex expects to receive.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very impressed by this device, and I hope it works out.
However, the visual cortex is not the end all-all be-all of visual information in the brain. Visual information on the way to this cortex is first passed through other areas of the brain, such as the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, which process the information, and also allow it to interact with other brain areas.
Based on my knowledge of the intricate, piecemeal nature of brain design, these pre-processing areas are probably involved in some fairly important low-level, reflexive aspects of vision. Bypassing them may restore the conscious aspects of vision and allow a great deal of function, but will miss out on some other aspects of vision that we are not consciously aware of.
Repairing the optic nerve is the only way to get real vision.
But that's step #1000, kudos to these pioneers for having the courage and ability to do step #10.
The ENIAC was already well on its way to completion by the time E & M saw Astantoff's machine. Also, the ABC was based on very different technology than the ENIAC.
There's surely better ways to test this theory. Any positive result could be the result of rebounding microwaves or a defective cage. How about simply detecting the gravity waves directly by looking for minute deflections of an object?
That I have not yet read one single post about how much fun college is. You will finally meet people very much like yourself, you will go out to eat supper at 3am with friends for no reason. You'll live life in a dorm full of very interesting people, develop entirely new social skills and have a great time in the process.
Also, it'll be great for your career, etc, yadda yadda.
But he is genuinely passionate about open source, and for that we can all learn something from him. I know I am not looking forward to the day RMS is unable to continue his mission with the open source movement.
I would like to see RMS's reaction to this comment.
He's actually got something there with the memory angle. He's probably right about a naive subject, that it takes up more mental horsepower to speak page down than hit the key.
But take someone who's trained for 5 years? they'll probably say Page Down by instinct, without even noticing.
That said, it is a lot easier to hit Pagedown on the keyboard than to say it. Fewer muscles, less control signals required. I think he's got the right of it.
It is absolutely not true that everyone who knows about the DMCA dislikes it. It completely depends on who's telling them about it. As a picketer on the streets I was able to convince 95% of the people I talked to that the DMCA is a bad thing. But I'm sure if I was pro-MPAA, I could have done exactly the opposite.
This is a complex enough issue that the great majority of people don't know enough to form a confident opinion and therefore can be easily swayed by whomever is telling the story (unlike a more clear cut issue, such as abortion).
This is the same problem with most of these technical issues, the average man in the street doesn't understand enough to be a good judge, or juror. This apparently applies to many politicians as well.
Just nuke your machines across the board, backing up the important data, and reinstall everything after they leave. Tell them you use MSDOS Edit to write your papers in LATEX by hand. This process, while a huge hassle, is probably less hassle than the BSA will give you, and when you're done, you'll have cleared out hundreds of gigs of useless crap, reinitialized your Windows registries and effective defragmented everything in one fell swoop. Also a good time to do some software upgrades.
I know this idea is unfeasible, but I'd love to see the look on their faces when a dual processor 1.5 ghz machine boots to a dos prompt.
Nope, it's worse. Recently got ahold of the DVD and started watching it at home and gave up halfway through (I've seen it twice in theaters). It was about the time I hit the Jedi council that I remembered how truly pitiful this movie is. They just don't grip me, or allow me to see past the bad acting on the part of all of them, especially Yoda (yes I know it's not a person, but it's still worse than the puppet of Empire and Jedi).
Episodes 4-6 are not like this at all, put them in the machine and I'm occupied for 2 hours.
It's crap, expensive and well polished crap, but crap nontheless, flawed in acting, character choice, script and plot.
This war won't be won, ever. It could theoretically last forever because it has nicely been described as a fight vs vague shadowy people who could be hiding in any country including our own.
Any such sunset clauses could last forever. Granted I haven't read it yet, but the summaries I've heard haven't put me at ease.
IBM has alot to gain by proving Linux superiority. If this were Microsoft's test and they showed the opposite, I'm sure that the/. community would immediately write it off as a rigged test.
Although in this case, it does like like they at least tried to find a regime in which Windows would do better, which is admirable, but there's still room for skepticism.
I was considering specifically the idea of posting advertisements locally, the installation trucks roll through often enough that they might spot one. Obviously there's a low chance of discovery, but the repurcussions would likely be swift and possibly litigious in nature (although it being non-profit, they'd likely not have much of a ground to stand in).
Realize that ISP's have a *lot* to lose if freenet's become popular, so stamping them out with extreme prejudice is practically a requirement of their stockholder agreements.
As for multiple modems peered together, that was the point of my message. How feasible is it, I ask from a perspective of inexperience with both wireless bases and bridges.
If my cable company found out about this somehow, they would pull by connection so fast, half our house would go with the wall plate. Then of course I'd be stuck because there's not a terrific variety of reliable vendors to choose from in our neck of the woods. So it would have to be low-key, somehow.
Besides, more than a few people would likely saturate the upstream on almost any cable modem and many DSL's. Any words of wisdom for those of us with 10 Mbit pipes running into our house?
How about, for example, a peer-peer setup with multiple cable modem gateways splitting the load?
Would that work with multiple base stations?
Yes, initially the particles have to travel at the speed of light to reach the destination, but once there, the travel of the collapse is instantaneous.
So let's so you have 2 communication stations, each has 1 billion particles in storage, tied to one another and sequentially numbered. By collapsing the wave of a particle on one end, they can send one bit of information to the other instantly. Again, the only drawback is that you have to initially send the particles at light speed.
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Eye movements are likely only a part of what those projections do. I would wager my meager annual stipend that those same projections mediate eye-hand coordination and many other ways that tie kinesthesis and our sense of surroundings together into coherent action.
You'll never get all that with just V1 projections.
Yes, it's quite mysterious.
Grabbing my Tome of Bio Neuropsych 101 off the shelf, the kind of thing any freshman in a college neuroscience program has to buy, I see the following:
some axons leave the optic tract to reach sites other than the LGN, inlcuding the superior colliculus(eye movement, but likely aspects of rapid motor eye-hand coordination as well), the diencephalon(circadian rhythms), and midbrain nucleus for the control of pupil size.
For practical purposes? Everything the brain does is for a practical purpose :). If there's a projection from A to B, it's doing something.
I should have made the point clearer.
It's not just that the LGN does some preprocessing, it's that the visual information heading to the visual cortex also goes to other places as well. Skipping the optic pathway will ignore these other projections, leading to incomplete visual processing even if you perfectly replicate the signal the visual cortex expects to receive.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very impressed by this device, and I hope it works out.
However, the visual cortex is not the end all-all be-all of visual information in the brain. Visual information on the way to this cortex is first passed through other areas of the brain, such as the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, which process the information, and also allow it to interact with other brain areas.
Based on my knowledge of the intricate, piecemeal nature of brain design, these pre-processing areas are probably involved in some fairly important low-level, reflexive aspects of vision. Bypassing them may restore the conscious aspects of vision and allow a great deal of function, but will miss out on some other aspects of vision that we are not consciously aware of.
Repairing the optic nerve is the only way to get real vision.
But that's step #1000, kudos to these pioneers for having the courage and ability to do step #10.
How about you check the facts.
The ENIAC was already well on its way to completion by the time E & M saw Astantoff's machine. Also, the ABC was based on very different technology than the ENIAC.
The issue is a matter of debate, not a myth.
There's surely better ways to test this theory. Any positive result could be the result of rebounding microwaves or a defective cage. How about simply detecting the gravity waves directly by looking for minute deflections of an object?
That I have not yet read one single post about how much fun college is. You will finally meet people very much like yourself, you will go out to eat supper at 3am with friends for no reason. You'll live life in a dorm full of very interesting people, develop entirely new social skills and have a great time in the process.
Also, it'll be great for your career, etc, yadda yadda.
But he is genuinely passionate about open source, and for that we can all learn something from him. I know I am not looking forward to the day RMS is unable to continue his mission with the open source movement.
I would like to see RMS's reaction to this comment.
I wouldn't. Fire in the hole! *takes cover*
He's actually got something there with the memory angle. He's probably right about a naive subject, that it takes up more mental horsepower to speak page down than hit the key.
But take someone who's trained for 5 years? they'll probably say Page Down by instinct, without even noticing.
That said, it is a lot easier to hit Pagedown on the keyboard than to say it. Fewer muscles, less control signals required. I think he's got the right of it.
It is absolutely not true that everyone who knows about the DMCA dislikes it. It completely depends on who's telling them about it. As a picketer on the streets I was able to convince 95% of the people I talked to that the DMCA is a bad thing. But I'm sure if I was pro-MPAA, I could have done exactly the opposite.
This is a complex enough issue that the great majority of people don't know enough to form a confident opinion and therefore can be easily swayed by whomever is telling the story (unlike a more clear cut issue, such as abortion).
This is the same problem with most of these technical issues, the average man in the street doesn't understand enough to be a good judge, or juror. This apparently applies to many politicians as well.
Real geeks assemble mobos next to their Tesla coil.
Just nuke your machines across the board, backing up the important data, and reinstall everything after they leave. Tell them you use MSDOS Edit to write your papers in LATEX by hand. This process, while a huge hassle, is probably less hassle than the BSA will give you, and when you're done, you'll have cleared out hundreds of gigs of useless crap, reinitialized your Windows registries and effective defragmented everything in one fell swoop. Also a good time to do some software upgrades.
I know this idea is unfeasible, but I'd love to see the look on their faces when a dual processor 1.5 ghz machine boots to a dos prompt.
Nope, it's worse. Recently got ahold of the DVD and started watching it at home and gave up halfway through (I've seen it twice in theaters). It was about the time I hit the Jedi council that I remembered how truly pitiful this movie is. They just don't grip me, or allow me to see past the bad acting on the part of all of them, especially Yoda (yes I know it's not a person, but it's still worse than the puppet of Empire and Jedi).
Episodes 4-6 are not like this at all, put them in the machine and I'm occupied for 2 hours.
It's crap, expensive and well polished crap, but crap nontheless, flawed in acting, character choice, script and plot.
And yet you hide behind anonymity. His point was not that there is no danger. His point was that if you want to make a difference, take a stand.
Surely the martyrs who risked death had quite a bit more to fear than porn spam and phone calls.
That may be the loudest *legal* message you can send them. But I'm sure I can think of much more effective messages once I leave that arena.
This war won't be won, ever. It could theoretically last forever because it has nicely been described as a fight vs vague shadowy people who could be hiding in any country including our own.
Any such sunset clauses could last forever. Granted I haven't read it yet, but the summaries I've heard haven't put me at ease.
Way I heard it, the envelope was covered with a very flammable material for some engineering reason.
IBM has alot to gain by proving Linux superiority. If this were Microsoft's test and they showed the opposite, I'm sure that the /. community would immediately write it off as a rigged test.
Although in this case, it does like like they at least tried to find a regime in which Windows would do better, which is admirable, but there's still room for skepticism.
I was considering specifically the idea of posting advertisements locally, the installation trucks roll through often enough that they might spot one. Obviously there's a low chance of discovery, but the repurcussions would likely be swift and possibly litigious in nature (although it being non-profit, they'd likely not have much of a ground to stand in).
Realize that ISP's have a *lot* to lose if freenet's become popular, so stamping them out with extreme prejudice is practically a requirement of their stockholder agreements.
As for multiple modems peered together, that was the point of my message. How feasible is it, I ask from a perspective of inexperience with both wireless bases and bridges.
If my cable company found out about this somehow, they would pull by connection so fast, half our house would go with the wall plate. Then of course I'd be stuck because there's not a terrific variety of reliable vendors to choose from in our neck of the woods. So it would have to be low-key, somehow.
Besides, more than a few people would likely saturate the upstream on almost any cable modem and many DSL's. Any words of wisdom for those of us with 10 Mbit pipes running into our house?
How about, for example, a peer-peer setup with multiple cable modem gateways splitting the load?
Would that work with multiple base stations?
Many people will be unwilling to join yet another mailing list. Lists are fairly intrusive and fill up one's box.
Yes, initially the particles have to travel at the speed of light to reach the destination, but once there, the travel of the collapse is instantaneous.
So let's so you have 2 communication stations, each has 1 billion particles in storage, tied to one another and sequentially numbered. By collapsing the wave of a particle on one end, they can send one bit of information to the other instantly. Again, the only drawback is that you have to initially send the particles at light speed.
What have you done?
I hope, for the sake of avoiding hypocrisy, that the answer is something substantial.
Is that someone with a different mindset might read this, think it serious and start mass emailing it to their friends.
We're in for some rough times...