Have a look see at this chart used by neuroscientists Fuster, Crick and Koch to wrap your head around the gear-works of visual consiousness.Â
Our visual cortex doesnât show us what it sees. Instead, it sneaks maps of reality in front of our consciousness that influences us to do things before we even know what weâre doing.
And those playful neurons in charge of visuals our consciousness sees? (shapes, contrasts, ect.)Â Theyâre all coked up â continually remapping the information until it finally reaches our frontal lobes. (conscious awareness).
Not done yet, though. The frontal lobes decide to make itâs own questionable, at times freshman-like, edits before screening it to our consciousness as objective journalism.Â
What we âseeâ is far removed from what our brain sees.
Hereâs another way to âlookâ at it. Our consciousness, in our frontal lobes (where the blue arrows point) is the last in line to react/respond to the world.Â
Yet, our thoughts can reshape everything we see and do by sending information (from our imaginary sense of the world) to the rest of the brain and body (red lines).
But at the end of the day, we just canât consciously see how the world is in actuality. But, I think thatâs ok.
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Fuster JM. Neuron. 2001 May;30(2):319-33.
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