The modularity of the mind amazed me the most when I first read about the function of the visual cortex. To think that there are neurons that represent lines of different angles and lengths in your field of vision and similar lines that are moving in different directions etc. and that you somehow get a complete visual experience is mind-boggling, even if obvious afterwards. You understanding this text is those individual cell thingies firing in a meticulously connected harmony.
The modularity of the mind amazed me the most when I first read about the function of the visual cortex. To think that there are neurons that represent lines of different angles and lengths in your field of vision and similar lines that are moving in different directions etc. and that you somehow get a complete visual experience is mind-boggling, even if obvious afterwards. You understanding this text is those individual cell thingies firing in a meticulously connected harmony.