At 12:24 AM 3-14-2002, Jinx wrote:
> > It makes you wonder what the world would look like if our eyes
> > had a flat response. I read somewhere that for red light to look
> > the same amplitude, it had to be same large number, like 1000,
> > times brighter. This makes me imagine how painful a sunset
> > would be. :)
> >
> > Brandon Irwin
>
>In a similar vein, body parts have individual sensation regions
>in the brain. The "Sensory homunculus" is a map of these
>regions, and is usually accompanied by a diagram or model
>of how big body parts would be if they all had the same nerve
>density representation in the brain. We usually come out looking
>like a frog or Mr Potatohead. I've got a 3D model somewhere
>
>http://www.cs.uta.fi/~jh/homunculus.html
>
>http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2001_saladin/folder_structure/in/m2/s9/inm2s9
>_1.htm
>
>http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/thesis/chapter_3/section3_2.html
>
>Fig 3-13

Its amazing how little ours eyes actually take. I would have expected a
whole lot more than that. It must be because theres not much required to
control them. Just left right, etc...and the rest is just visual input. I
still don't get how it can be so little, comparatively.

The thumbs take a lot. I would think that it would be the pointer finger
that would take the most.

If we were to make a computer program to do equiv things that a brain can
do and did organ size by processing power required, i would imagine this
would be drastically different, especially in the eye area.

Amazing...



Brandon Irwin

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