Biochemistry ⇔ Perception

today...

Vision!

Photons ⇢ brain

Source: The Human Visual System

Pretty obvious. Is it?

Source: Blue Light & The Retina

Rods, cones and color

Source: Light entrainment of retinal biorhythms

Cats / letters / abrgagh

Why?

Pareidolia

Source: r/Pareidolia

face recognition

Source: A Brain Network Processing the Age of Faces | PLOS ONE, Fusiform face area

A face...A plane...superman?

Source: Why We See Faces in Objects, Early activation of face-specific cortex

why(-y-y)?

why(-y-y)?

Women are better here

Source: Women are better at seeing faces where there are none | Semantic Scholar

Synaesthesia

seeing...music

Brain in synaesthesia

Source: Synaesthesia | The BMJ

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Source: Sensitives / Specialized Sensors

Nature | Nurture?

Source: Rare variants in axonogenesis genes

Deprivation / K-Hole

What happens?

Source: Sheep-on-ketamine study reveals what happens when you fall into a "k-hole"

the same deprivation, all the time?

Hungry for input

Source: Form constant - Wikipedia

Prediction machine

Source: On the Free Energy Principle – Mundy Reimer

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Free energy principle

Source: Active Inference | Louis Kirsch

40-second boyd

40-second boyd

observe ⇢ orient ⇢ decide ⇢ act

Source: Integrated Sensing and Decision Support

OODA + FEP = pidor?

Source: OODA, Free Energy Principle, & Polarization

perceive⇢infer⇢decide⇢observe⇢repeat

Different. Or are we?

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