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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2005-02-05 01:39 am

Some are smeared, and some are spots

Classic hallucinations explained as normal modes of a differential equation describing propagating excitations in the visual cortex. A couple of papers on the subject are linked here.

[identity profile] ex-askesis860.livejournal.com 2005-02-05 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Duuude, you're directly experiencing part of the underlying structure of conscious experience - how much deeper do you want? A discussion for another time, but I get very frustrated with people who insist on the equivalent of hat tricks when they live in a universe full of genuine miracles.