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Thank mom and dad to give birth to me. Thank all my friend who have shown their support of me. Thank god who gave me freedom.

I am very happy to have you all be with me.

Cheers!

So what do we really see? What is the outcome of our visual cortex? How perfectly can we recover the environment we see will shed some light on this question. But HOW can we get those recovery images? Well, here is a clue: please remember what do you 'see' when you are dreaming. When you are dreaming, your eye basically cut off from the outer world (not totally cut off, you still can perceive light intensity), what you see then is the 'reconstruction' images from the output of visual cortex. They truly very different from the image you see. I personally dream a lot, but not one time i see the world as i do when i open my eyes. all the 'details' are gone! This incapability of recover sharp image manifest itself every time you close your eyes. 

I still can not give a full picture on this question, but, from personal experience, i conclude the several aspects are perhaps important in the recovered image:

1. very rough shapes.

2. very very rough edges.

3. few color or not at all. 

4. the meaning to me, causal link with other objects.

so, to conclude, i can recover very little information form what I've got from the input, compared with the huge information of the inputs. This means:

1. redundancy in the inputs for our visual system.

2. we do not care whether we can recover what we see. (though painter does, their ability to recover the scene is irrelevant)

3. only small amount of feature is extracted.

4. subjected to conscious manipulation.

This confirms again the importance of the role HVS are playing in reducing redundancy in the inputs, which is the guide line for visual research, at least in recent decades.

GoGoStudio Memo

ref: 

some day ago, i went whale watch with interns at MERL. Fantasic experience! I love the billowing sea and the blowing wind.

这个例子很有趣：

三岁55%的小孩才可以分辨第二层generalization，如动物。这个时候猫和狗被generalized成了动物了。

可见我们perceive这个世界有多么的不容易。

可见动物之所以没有人类发展的好，就是因为他们看物体都是区分性的，猫就是猫，和狗没关系，如果动物是猫，那么狗不是动物。

当我们成长时，我们看到了更多的关系。这些关系构成了错综复杂的知识结构。物体和物体之间形成了不同的抽象物体。

这个抽象的物体就形成了智慧。

‘我’ 被过度神化了。

我们把我称作做一个精神，一个spirit，

我们希望有来世，

no, 没有来世，因为我是不存在的，

没有 spirit，

一切都是迷信。

‘我’在超过这个肉体（可以想象成为c++类里面的this指针）之外的任何定义都是虚妄的。

‘我’只是对外界的信号的接收和决定的反馈，

我是自然孕育出来的机器人，

这就是意识，

这就是灵魂，

所有动物植物都有灵魂，

period