[HN Gopher] Scientists discover retinal cells that help stabiliz... ___________________________________________________________________ Scientists discover retinal cells that help stabilize our world view Author : geox Score : 32 points Date : 2023-12-02 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (optometry.berkeley.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (optometry.berkeley.edu) | grenoire wrote: | People think that the brain is like a micromanager dealing with | all parts of the body manually, but it seems like various levels | of 'intelligence' in our body is very much decentralised. | meindnoch wrote: | Reflexes are part of the high school biology curriculum in my | country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_arc | AlecSchueler wrote: | Since what year? | | Not asking sarcastically, just curious when schools started | moving forwards with these things. The decentralised nature | of thinking is something that's only been presented to me | with a biological basis in the past few years. Would love to | know who was agead of the curve, how so, and why! | zeusk wrote: | I attended high school in India around 2008, they had a | good three chapters on CNS (incl. how reflexive actions can | be routed within the spinal cord). | konschubert wrote: | It was part of the German curriculum in the early 2000s. | menzoic wrote: | I learned about CNF in 2006 and a lot of related things | such as specialization of different brain areas and the | stomach having sort of a brain that affects you emotionally | nathias wrote: | world view is a very unfortunate choice of words for what they | meant | red_trumpet wrote: | Yep, this headline is similarly problematic: | | > Gaze Stabilization in a Moving World | swayvil wrote: | So less consistent philosophy, more steadycam | AlecSchueler wrote: | I took it to be a humorous play of words but still with the | actual meaning unobscured. It's not always problematic to | have a bit of fun, or is there something more harmful that | I'm missing? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-02 23:00 UTC)