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You might think that the nerves that connect our eyes to our optical cortex in
the brain work that way, but I strongly suspect that they don't. The nerves do
not remain coherent nor organized and get crossed by the time they make it to
our brain.
So an image that starts out on the retina
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0000000
1111111
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might map to
0000101
0010000
1001001
0000000
0001000
on the cortex. Part of learning how to see is learning what spots on the cortex
are actually next to each other in the retina.