NROC64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sehar, Retina, Diffraction
27 Sep 2015
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People in europe knew very little about africa: this is similar to how we know things about the brain. If the brain was simple, it would not have the capacity to do complex things that we can do. Subsystems - the entire brain as a whole is too complex to focus on, thus subsystems are studied. Everything serves sensorimotor transformations: memory is a part of sensorimotor systems. If you have a functional android, the expectation would be that these machines have some sort of consciousness because consciousness is a part of sensorimotor processing. Back to the coastlines: the first portion of this course is on perception i. e. vision. Introduction: vision is in some ways comparable to what a camera does, there is a lot of computation going on in the retina however, that does not occur in a camera. Introduction: what is the retina doing, contrast - difference or black vs. white.
