Absolute Zero <amycaton@hotmail.com> Spat the Words
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
Woodswun wrote:
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
Su Zanadu wrote:
see video and pic here:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=
33749
LAKE CITY, FL -- She has four eyes, two noses and one big heart.
At first glance, Deuce may look like a normal cat. But if you move
in
close, you can see just how she got her name. Deuce has two faces.
Her owners took her to the vet, and she appears to be healthy; all
her
internal organs are in place.
Deuce will head back to the doctor
'Deuce + head '?
Double entendre ;)
in a few weeks to get an MRI to check
out her brain
Why does this happen?
Same way identical twins happen - a fertilized egg, or early stage
embryo, splits. In the case of conjoined twins or singles with extra
limbs/heads/organs, the splitting did not complete.
So which set of eyes does the cute 2 headed kitty see out of
Who knows... the eyes haven't even opened in the picture.
- or does it have panorama vision?
Are you consciously aware (moment to moment) that you're looking
"through" two eyes? The eye is but a mechanism for the delivery of
optical data. It's the brain that "sees". Vivid dreaming would be a good
illustration of that.
If you close one eye, you'll lose depth perception. But note: that
discernment of depth doesn't exist in the image you “see”... which
though coming stereoscopically from two eyes, is constructed into a
single image between your ears. You don’t see it as such, you perceive
it.
Bio-Psychology in general has to be one of the most interesting
fields of study today. Here's an article about something called
'mirror neurons'. I read an article very similar to this a few
weeks back in the Wall Street Journal. It's all about how we sense
intentions in others and how this allows the complexities of
social interaction. Apparently the same area of the brain starts
firing when we view another person about to react in a certain
way as when we ourselves react in that way to a given stimulus.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/apa-ast021405.php
I recall an interesting experiment from ~30 years ago, where a subject
wore an optical device that turned everything upside down. At first the
victim couldn't even walk with his eyes open... except in a semi-drunken
fashion. However within a couple of days his brain adapted to the new
reality and re-orientated the image the right side up.
On removal of the mechanism the perceived image was then upside down
again... producing the self-same difficulties as previously noted,
before returning to normal again a few days later.
Of all the senses, vision is by far the most "magical" and difficult to
comprehend.
-A
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