[HN Gopher] Scientists discover retinal cells that help stabiliz...
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       Scientists discover retinal cells that help stabilize our world
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       Author : geox
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-12-02 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | 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?
        
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