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I have to agree with Zoe's

Submitted by Margaux Kearney on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 7:52pm.

I have to agree with Zoe's comment about hallucinations and real objects. After class on Thursday, I definitely learned a lot about "seeing" and how the nervous system plays a role. However, I am having a hard time distinguishing between real objects and hallucinations. How do we know what we see is "real" (does it have to do with the sudden brightness of pixels? does our central pattern generator play a role?) How do we know it is not simply a figment of our imagination?

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