From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jan 25 1998 - 05:36:43 MST
John Clark wrote incredulously:
> >About 4kx4k pixels
> >springs to mind ...
>That would mean we could distinguish between 16 million objects without
>moving our eye at all!
I commented:
>estimate of the retina's total receptivity as being about a million pixels.
Anders spoke of 2 million axons from the retina.
It seems we were all understating the case. According to Richard Dawkins,
in MOUNT IMPROBABLE,
`the human retina has about 166 million photocells' (p. 160).
Why am I bothering to post this `We Were Wrong'? Like, who really cares?
I dunno, just habit I guess.
Oh, and about that cherry tree--
Damien Broderick
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:48:31 MST