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Brain scans show that these geometric hallucinations originate lower down in the visual cortex where \u201ca categorical dictionary of images\u201d seems to reside\u2014\u201cproto-images,\u201d as some neuroscientists call them. What is fascinating about them is their universality\u2014they appear to exist in everyone, regardless of culture or personal history. Like the divine proportion of Fibonacci\u2019s spiral in nature, geometric images seem to be built in to the architecture of our visual system in a pre-organized way. \u201cSuch activity operates at a basic cellular level,\u201d Sacks writes, \u201cfar beneath the level of personal experience. The hallucinatory forms are, in this way, physiological universals of human experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

via The Hallucinators Among Us by Michael Greenberg | The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brain scans show that these geometric hallucinations originate lower down in the visual cortex where \u201ca categorical dictionary of images\u201d seems to reside\u2014\u201cproto-images,\u201d as some neuroscientists call them. What is fascinating about them is their universality\u2014they appear to exist in everyone, regardless of culture or personal history. Like the divine proportion of Fibonacci\u2019s spiral in […] →Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.daveomeara.com\/home\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.daveomeara.com\/home\/feed\/podcast\/david-brendan-omeara","embedCode":"

Kant in the Neuroscience lab…<\/a><\/blockquote>