After Image, try it at home :)


	After Image, try it at home :)
balthazarus
4-7-2009 12:00 PM
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balthazarus says:
Cool tricks...
Or perhaps it reveals a deeper sight to the way the nervous system functions; (A system with internal procedure, that correlates to the world outside, but certainly does not create an absolute representation of it...) an interesting experiment a la Maturana and Varela.
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4-7-2009 1:04 PM
tanyamm
Weird!
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