Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoYour brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down130
arrow-up1305arrow-down1message-squareYour brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareyanyuan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down3·8 months agoYour eyes are a part of your brain. So the only part of your brain that does receive light, is located outside of this dark room. Inside the dark room, there is nothing that senses light or darkness.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 months ago Your eyes are a part of your brain nope
minus-squareBluetreefrog@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months ago Your eyes are a part of your brain. Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?
minus-squareyanyuan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoI think I worded it badly and mixed up things with the visual system and the central nervous system. So I guess you could say that I was technically wrong and OP was technically right… Damn! Still our brains don’t register any darkness, except through the optic nerve… and screw you guys! I’m going home! ;)
Your eyes are a part of your brain.
So the only part of your brain that does receive light, is located outside of this dark room. Inside the dark room, there is nothing that senses light or darkness.
nope
Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?
I think I worded it badly and mixed up things with the visual system and the central nervous system.
So I guess you could say that I was technically wrong and OP was technically right…
Damn! Still our brains don’t register any darkness, except through the optic nerve… and screw you guys! I’m going home! ;)