How the Brain Preprocesses Vision

Standardization

Having built on the works of many experts, two men discovered the double helix, the thread of life.

One of the men has since passed on. The other continues work on life, especially the brain, and particularly on it's rhythm.

He proffered that the rhythm was about 40 pulses per second.

Clinically this has been technically observed by the video industry for many years, who have responded by tailoring the display pulse repetition rates to emulate the 40 pulse rate.

Data undergoing and/or subject to quick changes might be replenished at or near the 40 pulse rate or a harmonic of that rate. While one could presume under normal conditions, in order to conserve energy and minimize overall processing time, data undergoing little and/or no change would seldom be replenished.

Given that cells in the eye (or as one may postulate: likewise other sensory organs or devices) must send representative images to the brain, and that cells must quickly work together to provide a coherent assemblage and image, useful to the brain; then such imagery would necessarily relate the most normally useful information according to patterns constructed by the mind in the brain, which the mind uses systematically and on a recurring basis to the extent that such imagery complies with a standardized presentation plan.

Such a plan would be universal, with just minor differences among individuals, since the laws of physics apply universally for all individuals.

Key Factors

Among the key factors necessary for vision are:

A. Two dimensional imagery indicating spatial relationships, such as found on a flat computer monitor.

B. Time related imagery variations.

Referring to the two dimensional imagery as Background, and the time imagery as Foreground, we can better analyze the imagery and make logical postulations.

Preprocessing Background

Below is an illustration of the Background, along with the theoretical Side View. Also shown for comparison purposes are a computer monitor side view, and the side view of the actual field of vision the eye works to capture.

Understanding there is a standard relationship between individual cells interfacing with the brain and mind, using the above illustration, one may derive that for any such given cell, regardless of that cell's actual size, the image the mind has of it may be larger or smaller than the cell's actual size, and therefore a cell's image can cover a very large or very small portion of the two dimensional spatial relationship field.

So, if a portion of the field just has one cell's image, it is like a switch with off / on functions only.

However, if a portion of the field has many cells' images, it is like a rheostat, which may include internal variations of hues, intensities, and patterns.

A two dimensional computer monitor has a flat field of evenly distributed pixels. If those pixels were not evenly distributed, they would form cluster regions of higher definition than the surrounding areas. So when given a high resolution image to display, some areas of the image would be clear, and some areas would be mottled.

If the high density pixel areas were to represent the eye, density would be in the center, where sharp imagery is needed for close examination of objects. The center is also the area where there is focus on distant objects.

Low density imagery is at the outer perimeter, an important although relatively less vital area. However the outer perimeter is very important for Foreground imagery. Movement seen out of the corner of the eye or at the perimeter of vision serves to play a vital role in self-preservation, a defense against attacks on the body by cars, animals, and other objects.

Preprocessing Foreground

Below the Foreground is overlaid on the Background.

If the Background was not present, the imagery would simply look like a pot of boiling water. Computer monitors can appear this way, such as when the hard drive is stuck in a pre-presentation processing loop.

Many people likewise have noticed tiny swirling momentary bubble-like displays (with trails, or tails), when conditions are right. This might occur when the eyes are shut and pressure is high. Many factors enter into it's reproducibility.

Since the Background changes less frequently, less replenishment of each particular bit of data information is needed, as long as fixed points can be established and verified by the mind from time to time as undergoing no significant change.

So as one data point, such as the image of part of a cell wall appears and becomes a (temporary) fixed point of reference, another nearby partial cell wall image which temporarily served as a fixed point may disappear for awhile to rest, replenish itself, or similar. So consecutive snapshots of the Background would essentially appear very similar, although small parts of the Background would vary.

The Foreground, being more active, would necessarily have more data replenishment.

Vital Needs

Utilizing aspects of the Inverse Square Law to indicate 3D information, 2D imagery is presented. (Note: When not dealing with visual sensory perception, such as electromagneto, or gravimetric sensory perceptions, then devices would rely on pertinent Laws vicariously to the Inverse Square Law. However, with humans or similar living creatures, we can expect to find that since visualization, for instance, may take precedence at a particular moment over smell, for example, the mind may tend to analyze such smelled odors in a visual context to some extent; such as visualizing an apple when an apple aroma is sensed. Such visualization might otherwise serve no significant useful purpose, such as when one eats applesauce.)

Emotional qualities may be quantified according to contributing factors associated with these standardized elements. Lack of Background can cause disorientation, uneasiness, fear, and so on, such as found at night, or in an amusement park's Haunted House. Lack of Foreground can cause boredom, restlessness, depression, and so forth. Watching television, going on vacation, and so forth are ways to augment Foreground (and Background) activity.

Just as the spinal cord plays a vital role in health and fortification of certain body parts at certain times, sensory imagery also serves a vital role to communicate in like manner. The standardized unraveling of information protects life, and fosters it's growth.

Powering-Up To See

When bright lights are turned on in the middle of the night, the eyes of living creatures do not typically just as instantly see. Just as getting out of bed can take time, and likewise eyes can take time to adjust. If someone gets out of bed slowly, they may notice particular muscle groups starting to move, limbs starting to adjust, and the mind trying to remember how gravity works.

Likewise, when a bright light appears, the brain's initial imagery from the eye goes through a pre-seeing process which organizes and prepares for sight in a standardized manner. The interface checks many parameters, of course, such as the internal check of the sensor (whether the eyelid is open, whether the eye is dry, and so on), the check at to immediate danger, how dim or bright the room is, and so forth.

If the brain and eye seem undamaged and not in peril, the main preprocessing of vision commences.

The preprocessing can take several minutes, and may even take hours to come to full power, depending on the circumstances.

Preprocessing Stages

Preprocessing can be segregated into four catergories, or stages: 1. Internal systems check, 2. Background standardization, 3. Foreground standardization, and 4. Transition to vision processing.

Vision processing is the normal seeing, recognizing, short term memorizing, acting-on (or resting), and long term memorizing.

There is evidence to indicate that during the normal preprocessing stage, most of the time is spent in the combined Stages 2 & 3. Stage 1 problems could have strong reactions, such as indicated by the following exclamation, "Ow, you poked me in the eye!"

Stage 4 often may be accompanied by fluttering eyelids, along with the patient awareness thought "No, my eyes are not yet ready for that bright light."

The patient waiting period is generally the bulk of the preprocessing, and you might be able to actually visualize (not just have an idea about) something similar to the round illustration in the second chart above, although in far greater detail, during the Stages 2 & 3, if conditions are right.

Pain, real or imagined, during preprocessing can hinder concentration on visualizing.

It is important to understand that during preprocessing, just because someone asks "How many fingers am I holding up?", and no answer is readily visible, that doesn't mean that a lot of activity isn't occurring at the eye nerve imagery interface with the brain.

There are a lot of cells firing and there is a great amount of electrochemical activity. So with all that going on, you just might be able to see something, even with your eyes closed. You may not see the room you happen to be in, but you may see the standardization pattern, as the author of this writing has seen.

If a person stands in front of a bright light with their eyes closed, and covers one eye with their hand, they see a great differece in light intensity.

Or if a person looks at a bright object awhile and looks away, they may see a latent image.

But such visualizations are large scale. With closed eyes concentrating focus on small scale (as if looking closely at a tiny object with eyes open), perhaps one thousand times smaller for preprocessing, points of light, minute lines, and eventually patterns may appear, particularly during stages 3 & 4.

Likewise for post-processing, although on a scale range from 1 to 1 for concentric rings of waves (Note: Outside diameters of rings decrease from 100% to 0% field of normal vision), to perhaps one tenth the normal field of vision for visualizing ring thickness (Note: Figured by measuring the outside diameter, minus the inside diameter, and then dividing by two).

Discernment

Some patterns may appear with inactive black default background (typical) with highly active white (or perhaps sun colored) default foreground (typical) (Note: In this context, this mentioning of background and foreground is not to be confused with Processing Background and Processing Foreground discussed and illustrated in this writing).

White lines with irregular small curves may be discernable, as if looking at certain texturized vinyl whose creases are white and the flat areas black.

Usually when a person closes their eyes they report seeing black, or they report seeing random static, such as seen on a mostly darkened television screens (low light / dark setting, found on older models).

With Processing Background and Foreground visualization, it is as if looking at a near object with open eyes as one might normally do. So with eyes closed, being able to focus on the pattern, one might conclude that one eye takes over and the other eye is less active or inactive, similar to the way a microscope is often used. However, another perhaps equally valid supposition is that both eyes work (although less actively than during regular usage), and perhaps it is the interface (the brain's interface with the optic nerves and eyes) imagery, not the eye imagery that is seen.

With normal vision, the eye imagery is acute, and mainly focused on fixed points of reference (subconsciously). Normal vision is clear with great detail.

On the other hand, closed eye vision, is relatively not acute, and pattern recognition is rare.

Stages 1 and 4 each certainly have standardized patterns associated with them, but the relatively short duration of the events may only reveal excited black / white [gray] points and / or regions that may be too confusing to recognize as having pattern. Although, by knowing the standardized patterns of other stages, interpolations can be drawn.

So the step by step process would involve preprocessing (Internal check, Background / Foreground, and Transition), normal sight, and post-processing.

Post-Processing

Post-processing is not simply a reversal of current flow. Post-processing does not necessarily mean shutting down (complete shut down would be death), such as for sleep, during which alpha waves, REM and other well known activities occur. Post-processing involves adjusting to dimmer light, typically, and with such adjustment, the bringing about of reduced activities among associated subsystems.

In terms of energy, it is important to think in terms not only of particle motion, but also of wave motion. As a stone in a pond creates ripples, it has been this author's visual experience that a pattern of light and dark rings of decreasing size can be seen in post-processing (Note: Open eyes could see a light which could disrupt concentration on visualizing internal processing, so closed eyed during internal visualization is recommended).

The opposite effect of rings enlarging seems to be part of the purpose of the illustration opposite page 405, for activity circa 5BC (publication dates 1830, 1989, and others) in the Book of Mormon.

Ideally, powering-up would be like the resume mode of the computer. In routine situations without distractions, it can be, and large amounts of energy and data can be processed quickly. In normal life there are distractions and changes with which the mind must deal, and using the computer as a comparison, there may be input from a printer, the keyboard, default popup software, and so on.

Powering-down a computer sometimes takes extra time, but usually it is much faster than powering-up. In terms of information energy, this means powering-down represents massive waves of energy, relative to the powering-up of bits of energy.

Blindness

Could a blind person see interface imagery as described above? Yes. Whether considered legally blind or actually considered blind, the mind can do amazing things and work to emulate missing components.

However, it is very likely such interface imagery would be reduced, if present at all, since the interface imagery described above deals primarily with powering-up or powering-down. But that does not exclude them from being able to add valuable information about which they do interface.

A blind person would not automatically see closed eye processing imagery more acutely. Their seeing of such imagery would depend on their type or reason for blindness.

If they had no eyes, no optic nerves, and no visual cortex of the brain, and hence no visual interface, then that presupposes no visual acuity exists for all practical purposes. Though they might have other sensory interfaces that act similarly, or even heightened. Such interfaces, as mentioned above, could be based on other principles, such as gravity, less fitting the illustrations of this writing.

A blind person with fully functional parts, but perhaps with a nearly black cornea from birth (or similar scenario) might have some relatively unique abilities in being able to visualize processing imagery. Working together with such people, if any, could possibly add greatly to the knowledge bank in this field.

Color Blindness

Color blindness might actually increase the ability to see certain interface imagery patterns. Color blind people have been able to see objects invisible to color seeing people, and have been specially sought for various jobs for their special abilities, such as for military surveilance.

For some having color blindness, their brain pathways have been reinforced and / or streamlined yielding improved pattern recognition capabilities.

Color Blindness Correction

Much action continues to correct vision with curved lens glasses or contacts, but correcting color vision continues to be largely ignored.

While getting a person having color blindness to see colors continues to thwart researchers to a large degree, there is much currently available to correct such color blindness sufficiently to, for instance, be able to drive a car and distinguish between green and red signals.

For instance, in the 1980s the author presented glasses capable of providing such correction to a huge international laboratory / manufacturer.

That company was very interested. That is, that company was very adamant to bury the information. They did not want to have to explain anything to customers (Note: That huge company declared bankruptcy a few years later).

Conclusions

While many or most people as yet claim to have not seen processing imagery, the fact remains it has been seen by various people.

While substantiation of the imagery for those who have not seen it may or may not as of yet have been verified, such as perhaps by magnetic resononance scanning of mental activities (which, as far as this author knows, currently lacks sufficient detail capabilities for providing same), there is a preponderance of logical and mathematical reasoning that has been and can be derived from the imagery and analogous descriptive information, indicating validity of the supposition as portrayed.

Also, reverse theorization based on math and logic (such as per the process of elimination) can deduce what must occur in a standardized manner, as portrayed. The author simply feels privileged and thankful the pattern occured first, making the unraveling of applicable math and logic easy.