Cyborg: A person whose physical tolerances or capabilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by a machine or other external agency that modifies the body’s functioning; an integrated man-machine system. -OED
Hind- and mid-brains; postero-lateral view.
20th U.S. edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body, originally published in 1918 via Wikipedia
“ In this course you will learn about how the visual system works. We will follow the representation of a visual stimulus along the pathway from the retina through the geniculate and on to the visual areas in the cortex. You will learn how the way we perceive lightness, contrast, color, motion, depth, faces and objects are reflected in the neurophysiological responses at each stage in the visual pathway. Student learning goals
Advanced Topics in Vision Science
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Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision
“At this early stage of a radically new culture, the artist is doing little more than explore his new relationship to the spectator. He is searching for new ways of handling ideas, for more flexible and adaptive structures to contain them; he is attempting to generate new carrier-waves for the modulations of contemporary experience; and he is searching the resources of technology to expand his repertoire of skills. His concern is to affirm that dialogue is possible-that is the content and the message of art now; and that is why, seen from the deterministic point of view, art may seem devoid of content and the artist to have nothing to say. The modern means of i, of feedback and viable interplay-these are the content of art. The artist’s message is that the extension of creative behaviour into everyday experience is possible.”
Roy Ascott, 1966
“ 1.- Théorie de la physique quantique de Planck. “Un système physique peut seulement présenter un numéro fini de différentes états; il bondit d’un état à l’autre sans passer à travers une série continue d’états intermédiaires”.
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“ This one’s a bit morbid, but the technology behind it all is actually quite interesting. Japan’s own Nichiryoku has evidently created a unique urn retrieval system that enables family members with deceased loved ones to return to a reverent storage facility, swipe an RFID card, and watch their late mother / father / etc. emerge from the underground for viewing. Aside from saving space and money, this also provides mourning kin with a sense of security, as we’re told that the urns are kept where even minor acts of God won’t disturb them.
RFID-activated retrieval system brings urns up for viewing - Engadget
