TROPICAL SYNAPSES
Reflections on topics including clinical neurology, recent publications in neuroscience,
philosophy of biology, "neuro-doubt" about modern media hype of new neuro-scientific procedures and methods, consciousness, scuba diving, horticulture, jazz, blues, slack key guitar music, the Hawai'i health scene, and whatever else dat's da kine...
We drove to Puako Village yesterday to dive, but the surf was up, so instead we went to Mahukona, our "stormy weather" dive spot here on the Big island. Visibility was about 50 feet in the shallows. We saw an undulated moray that I am sure was over 6 feet long along an old chain from what's left of the freighter wreck there.
Undulated morays are seldom over a meter long, so this was a big, "tiger" one.
Where is the color of what we see? Is it part of the object we see? Is it in the light from that object? Is it in our eyes, our retinas? O...
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