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Makes me think about stroboscopic geometry or the geometric patterns you see when you rub your eyes. Where are those shapes coming from? I think some neural we
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Makes me think about stroboscopic geometry or the geometric patterns you see when you rub your eyes. Where are those shapes coming from?
I think some neural wetware can be instinctually tuned to resonate with particular shapes—like snakes or faces. But I would guess that large collections tend to resonate with certain geometries naturally. Like, to the perfect symmetry of circles or to crisp contrasts or straight lines or repeating angles.
In other words, I think some geometry is inherent to neurons once there aren’t other instinctual matters to deal with. This should be empirically testable.
- ksaj 5y agoI think it was Anton LaVey, but I'm not sure, who thought that the parallelogram was a most evil simple shape, and pointed to how it makes people feel uneasy. I figured if this is true, it might be because it's the shape you see if something square is about to fall over on you.