Andrew Gallimore
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Maybe the next one, Jamie, is a bit easier to see.
So at the right of the back of the brain here, you have an area called V1, which is the primary visual cortex.
That's your interface with the world.
Sensory information comes and strikes.
It activates patterns of neural activity in V1.
But it's very, very messy.
It's like lines and patches of color and lines moving in certain directions.
It's incredibly dynamic.
It doesn't make any sense.
And so what your brain does is it has another level above V1 that kind of has a bird's eye view and is looking for patterns around.
within this neural activity in this lowest level.
So it's looking for saying, oh, those lines kind of could be a triangle or this could be a circle.
It's trying to find patterns to try to generate order from this messy level in V1.