[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[WayneS]

Your Eye Sees Trouble Before You Do...

And here I always thought that MY eyes see things at exactly the same time I see them.

[humblegunner]

From the article:

“This ability may have evolved to speed escape from predators.”

Sure enough!

[lowbridge]

Who am I to believe? Me or my lying eyes?

[Allegra]

Wow. My eyes just saw a giant sausage and onion pizza crash through a window on the 67th floor of the Sears Tower.

But I haven't seen it yet.

In fact, I'm nowhere near the Sears Tower.

That really is amazing.

[GOP Poet]

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[bgill]

the eye and brain that are quicker and more automatic than our reflexes

Duh. Your eyes have to see something before your brain processes it and then it takes time for your muscles to move away from danger. More wasted $$$$.

[FormerRep]

Autonomic exceeds the cognizant. That’s not a new observation. It doesn’t take much higher thought to have developed reflexive actions. Invertebrates are just as good at avoidance.

[I see my hands]

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[Little Pig]

Keep in mind that the eye is a physical extension of the brain, and that therefore, in a way, even the eyeball is brain tissue. It could be that there is some sort of low-level processing going on at the retina or optic nerve that bypasses the higher, interpretive centers of the brain for some stimuli.

[FromLori]

[Frantzie]

I see dead people before they see me.

[Sacajaweau]

My tennis teacher asked me "how do you do that?"

Do what?

> "Hit the ball", he said...."You close your eyes as soon as the ball is on its way to you....but you hit it every time".

I do it playing baseball, too.

[DBrow]

This is related to the concepts in the book “The Inner Game Of Tennis”, where he spoke of muscle memory and training to respond without the brain.

If you’ve ever trained for a very fast sport like fencing, sabre, epee, IPSC, IDPA, or Three Gun you probably have noticed times when your body reacts before your brain gets involved.

There are loops and circuits in our nervous system that don’t involve the brain, like the patellar reflex.

[steve86]

What are we to make of this? René Descartes died, didn’t he?

[Bad Jack Bauer]

Sounds good in theory, but in real life...

[The Comedian]

But can your atomic legs get you away fast enough?

[dangerdoc]

bump

[TigersEye]

So this means that my eyes have got my back!?!

[tpanther]

Wow...all this thread is missing is the obligatory “Christians don’t understand science”...and “why can’t we all just get along” directed toward you GGG!