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Quickly, this notion that the brain constructs images independent of the I-Function brings a whole new meaning to the saying "Caught red handed" and "I saw it with my own two eyes."   On another note, Recently I was having dinner with a friend and he began telling me about "The Secret: The Law of Attraction." Essentially the premise of this theory is that in life you can have whatever you want: if you call out to the universe, it, in due time, will respond-it always does, every single time. Now one of the key properties is visualization. In order to make the call out to the universe to get this desire fulfilled, one must visualize and truly see in their minds what it is that they want and focus intently on that. As I am still rather unfamiliar with this theory, I wonder just how much it aligns with or relates to our most recent class discussion about images being constructions of the brain? I mean clearly these visualizations do in fact involve the I-Function as they are intentional and premeditated, but how does the nervous system's own conjuring function, especially as this is a matter of seeing without literally using the eye of its photo receptors? For instance, I suppose that if one decides s/he wants Mr./Mrs. Right to come along, s/he must visualize a person whose face they know nothing of, in which case I imagine the brain kicks in to fill in the gaps. This is tricky because it's often easier to list the qualities and characteristics in a mate as opposed to physical features, but I imagine that it that would be precisely the area that there nervous system would be concerned with.