Posted on 07/29/2009 3:29:45 PM PDT by NYer
Most people do not know his story, but his Mother was illiterate, single and Black.
But she did not tolerate a victim mentality in both him and his brother.
Well, I guess there is a limit to the number of halves one can do without.
You’re right - thank God.
“Biopic vision is based in the principle of the triangle, and two points do not a triangle make.”
I thought about that too, but now wonder if her brain might act upon the lens muscles a bit to distort the lens such that it projects light to medial vs lateral rods/cones sufficiently “abnormally” to afford her some degree of “biopic” vision? just wondering.........
I’ll bet her brain causes the eye to change focus very rapidly and then extrapolates depth from that information. The brain is awesome, not just redundant systems, but totally automatic and self-adjusting.
But I thought all girls....nah I won’t say it either.
For the luvofpete, keep Ezekiel Emanuel away from her!
Oh, I’ve enjoyed playful taunts from a number of my close friends. The best is Uni-ball (also the name of a certain kind of ink pen).
Yup, I’m half the man I used to be. :-)
I played tennis, softball, and shot competitively, had a college minor in dance, never had any trouble. I also was always able to "see my spot" in show jumping.
In fact, having near normal vision in my left eye from the age of about 45 has caused some adjustment problems!
. . . but I'm sure you've heard that one.
Friend of mine is in a similar situation thanks to a wrestling mishap. Thank heavens for redundancy, indeed!
Rush Limbaugh’s daughter?
She will still probably be smarter than 1/2 the obama-nites.......And given Obama care I don’t she would get the treatment to even be alive....So I don’t she could turn out to be a liberal......
With God all things are possible.
Three children? Lord help your wife if you had both of ‘em!!
Yes, but, everything you experience is but a caricature- a representation your mind creates for you. Your mind is perfectly capable of rendering a false reality for which you have no external input (i.e. a dream or hallucination). While you are experiencing a dream you don't have any sense of not seeing in a bi-scopic way, you perceive yourself as seeing normally, even though you're not seeing at all. It's all just rendered by your brain/mind. In that sense actually, you never see, even when you're awake. It's just a rendering of a neural signal.
Think about this: if you ever sit and watch a movie with headphones on, after just a few minutes you begin to perceive the sound as coming from 'over there on the screen' when it is actually coming from less than an inch from your ear. Your brain just renders the signal to you in a form that makes sense given the context of what you're doing at that moment; in this instance making the sound seem to come from the actors mouths on the screen.
I could well believe that the brain could make your mind perceive it was viewing the world bi-scopically. In fact, I'm pretty sure the brain/mind could do this with not too much effort at all. The brain/mind is a lot less hard-wired and reality a lot less specific than people tend to think. You can actually see in 2D if you try hard enough (it's really difficult though and takes a lot of practice). Think about the implications of that one for a while...
My first thought too. It's simply not optically possible.
The principle is "Parallax". Gotta have two lenses.
I clicked because I thought this was a story about Obama’s next Czar.
I remember reading something about the idea that the mind is actually operating on the holographic principle? A holograph in the true sense that means all the information for the whole is to be found in each small part. I’ll have to dig around and look into that one again. If I recall correctly, that theory seemed to imply that this is why the brain could do this. There seemed to be a lot of esoteric stuff attached to the idea though but if I recall the basic idea came from a respected neurologist and seemed an intriguing enough theory.
She’s certainly qualified to take my congresscritter’s seat.
Rush Limbaugh’s daughter!!???
I don’t mean to make fun of her and wish her only well. Long ago, psychologists and neurologists determined that we don’t use most of our brains. Based on the current state of the research, there is no real reason that she SHOULDN’T live a normal life!!!
More power to her!
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