another awesome quote from Kurzweil's book:
"Although we have the illusion of receiving high-resolution images from our eyes, what the optic nerve actually sends to the brain is just outlines and clues about points of interest in our visual field. We then essentially hallucinate the world from cortical memories that interpret a series of extremely low-resolution movies that arrive in parallel channels."
"Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints, edges in space and time," says [Frank S.] Werblin [of UC Berkeley].
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