@Soupie, do you think the attraction to symmetry originates in the neurons (or the brain) or in the world? As I see it, of course, the brain works to organize impressions and perceptions of that which is encountered in the world by protoconscious and conscious living beings.
I've discovered a long-developed blog titled "Neurosceptic" (now included within the
Discovery site) and finding there numerous articles that I think we might all be of interest to those following this thread. Here are two:
After 15 Years in a Vegetative State, Scientists Partly Restore Consciousness in Patient
By
Carl Engelking | September 25, 2017
After 15 Years in a Vegetative State, Scientists Partly Restore Consciousness in Patient - D-brief
The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion
By
Neuroskeptic | December 8, 2017
The Remarkable "Curvature Blindness" Illusion - Neuroskeptic
Ramifying comment to the latter:
Orlin Pettit > Jan-Erik Vinje • 18 days ago: "I remember seeing a photograph of a street scene several weeks ago from near the equator where twice a year the Sun is directly overhead at noon.. and it's looks very peculiar. Estimating distance and the actual size of objects is not easy as there are no shadows."
[edited] To me that experience bears out the phenomenological recognition that whatever appears to living animals appears by virtue of the light and shadow within which they/we are able to discern things and gestalts in the world, and the continual changing of the available light in which the world appears is the veritable sense of the temporality within which we and the world exist. The mobility of animals is the means by which the embodied senses of the environing world's 'depth' first arise prereflectively --
in moving, and observing motion, within three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time as temporality. Thus what we can think [mind] is constructed out of that which we experience in prereflective consciousness of being-in-the-world. I'm interested in any responses to this paragraph.