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  1. AnonymousAugust 16, 2023 at 1:16 AM

    I was reading about how frogs (and humans) see individual photons and reading up on light and it's invisible nature - that it is only perceived when it enters the eye.

    It got me thinking, when I 'imagine an apple' I do not see and apple, I would explain it as I 'feel' or 'know' the apple in my mind (feeling and knowing are 2 different types of mental sense). It is like it is there but behind a screen.

    I wonder if the reason there is no picture representation is because the memory and subsequent vision is recalled but not perceived because the eye is not involved? Is there something different about the communication between the eye and the brain when storing/recalling memory and information in aphants and non-aphants?

    Is our imagination there but invisible? Less a 'Blind Mind' and more 'Photon Thinking' or a 'Quantum Imagination'?

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-eye-could-help-test-quantum-mechanics

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