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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (3257)	11/9/2000 11:31:37 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You do realize that the optical system we have requires a lot of processing? There is also such a thing as sensory overload. I always laugh when I see movie portrayal's of "insect vision". You know, a whole bunch of little images tiled on the screen. What hooey!!! I've dissected insect eyes and they are seeing a complete, but single, tessellated image. Each lens is "looking" in a different place. They have a lot of resolution tradeoffs that people don't realize. They are a lot like the IR motion sensors on your front porch light. Not necessarily the best vision system. The reason your vision is so good is that we have a fovea. Fovial vision is limited to about 1/4" at arms length. The "quality" of your image is largely due to the "painting" of the image by your eye motions AND the memory of the brain of the information. Retinal eye tissue is brain tissue. Having a lot of your brain outside of your skull opens you up to brain injury. I think you underestimate the liability of having so much invested in that one sense. Dude, if you want to see what's behind you... turn around. Your camera is on a pivot. And what you don't see you can hear. Now hearing is not just in 180 degrees but 360. The little structure at the tip of your ear canal is a phase modulator that allows two ears to hear in 360 degrees, not just left to right. You really underestimate hauling around all that sensory equipment. Do you really want look like a biological AWACS system?