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So far no dead people found staring at their computer screens...

This post sounds like the author has been watching too many Threshold 
episodes ( on tonight and it just might drive you mad?).
But some of the people that post here act like they are
neurologically damaged, ha, ha.

I say go talk to the fractal artists:
they try everything/ anything
to get a better picture.

In most cases like with Music, fractals seem to open hidden neural 
pathways and people think better and more freely afterwards.
I'll do a search on it, but I have done searches on just about 
everything else in fractals,
and I've never heard of mental illness associated specifically with 
fractals.
Eliot Coweye wrote:
> I'm researching fractals and the effect of fractals on the human brain.
> It seems that certain fractals affect the fractal structure of the
> human brain, causing headaches or even epilepsy.
> 
> That means, fractals are a neurological key that can open doors to the
> human brain, but also be a dangerous weapon, a weapon to kill people
> whose brains will be shutdown.
> 
> IMO a fractal , seen through the eye can affect the "software" of the
> brain like a virus programm affects the OS of a computer. It's
> therefore possible to erase the brain with certain fractals like a
> harddisk is erased by some virus programs.
> 
> With the right fractals, we could create an "interface" to the brain to
> upload data. With the wrong one, we could kill.
> 
> Further research is necessary, but it seems like fractals can be  more
> deadly WMDs than biological weapons ...
> 

In contrast this might be a way to get DOD grant money for fractals 
research.
Roger Bagula wrote:

> So far no dead people found staring at their computer screens...
> 
> This post sounds like the author has been watching too many Threshold 
> episodes ( on tonight and it just might drive you mad?).
> But some of the people that post here act like they are
> neurologically damaged, ha, ha.
> 
> I say go talk to the fractal artists:
> they try everything/ anything
> to get a better picture.
> 
> In most cases like with Music, fractals seem to open hidden neural 
> pathways and people think better and more freely afterwards.
> I'll do a search on it, but I have done searches on just about 
> everything else in fractals,
> and I've never heard of mental illness associated specifically with 
> fractals.
> 

I've run several searches on these key words  ( brain, neurological, 
damage, fractals,  viewing ) with
totally negative results.

Although the structures of the brain are fractal , dendrite-like ,
( a large numbers of studies in this area have been done) ,
there is no known link to viewing fractals in any cases of 
brain/neorological damage that Google will admit to.

I can tell you some fractals art may be "toxic",
but I doubt it causes any brain damage.

A study would probably give negative results:
I'd like to see a measurement of chimps brain activity
before and after exposure to fractal art!
My guess that the results would be improved brain activity
after exposure!

I think that maybe the main neurological side-affect of exposure
to fractals is simply an addiction to fractals :-)

"Eliot Coweye" <cia_deviator@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:1132625556.711574.266080@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I'm researching fractals and the effect of fractals on the human brain.
> It seems that certain fractals affect the fractal structure of the
> human brain, causing headaches or even epilepsy.
>
> That means, fractals are a neurological key that can open doors to the
> human brain, but also be a dangerous weapon, a weapon to kill people
> whose brains will be shutdown.
>
> IMO a fractal , seen through the eye can affect the "software" of the
> brain like a virus programm affects the OS of a computer. It's
> therefore possible to erase the brain with certain fractals like a
> harddisk is erased by some virus programs.
>
> With the right fractals, we could create an "interface" to the brain to
> upload data. With the wrong one, we could kill.
>
> Further research is necessary, but it seems like fractals can be  more
> deadly WMDs than biological weapons ...
>

> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:41:12 +1300
>    From: Misty <misty3@paradise.net.nz>
> Subject: Neuroscientists break code on sight
> 
> Hope they didn't torture any monkeys for this. Nicky
> 
> http://www.alien-earth.org/forum/message.php?message=12648&mpage=1&topic=1&showdate=11/16/05
> Neuroscientists break code on sight
> 
> �The Matrix� is a step closer to reality
> 
> In the sci-fi movie "The Matrix," a cable running from a computer into Neo�s brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo�s brain can manipulate the computer-created world. In reality, scientists cannot interact directly with the brain because they do not understand enough about how it codes and decodes information.
> 
> Now, neuroscientists in the McGovern Institute at MIT have been able to decipher a part of the code involved in recognizing visual objects. Practically speaking, computer algorithms used in artificial vision systems might benefit from mimicking these newly uncovered codes.
> 
> The study, a collaboration between James DiCarlo�s and Tomaso Poggio�s labs, appears in the Nov. 4 issue of Science.
> 
> "We want to know how the brain works to create intelligence," said Poggio, the Eugene McDermott Professor in Brain Sciences and Human Behavior. "Our ability to recognize objects in the visual world is among the most complex problems the brain must solve. Computationally, it is much harder than reasoning." Yet we take it for granted because it appears to happen automatically and almost unconsciously.
> 
> "This work enhances our understanding of how the brain encodes visual information in a useful format for brain regions involved in action, planning and memory," said DiCarlo, an assistant professor of neuroscience.
> 
> In a fraction of a second, visual input about an object runs from the retina through increasingly higher levels of the visual stream, continuously reformatting the information until it reaches the highest purely visual level, the inferotemporal (IT) cortex. The IT cortex identifies and categorizes the object and sends that information to other brain regions.
> 
> To explore how the IT cortex formats that output, the researchers trained monkeys to recognize different objects grouped into categories, such as faces, toys and vehicles. The images appeared in different sizes and positions in the visual field. Recording the activity of hundreds of IT neurons produced a large database of IT neural patterns generated in response to each object under many different conditions.
> 
> Then, the researchers used a computer algorithm, called a classifier, to decipher the code. The classifier was used to associate each object -- say, a monkey�s face -- with a particular pattern of neural signals, effectively decoding neural activity. Remarkably, the classifier found that just a split second�s worth of the neural signal contained specific enough information to identity and categorize the object, even at positions and sizes the classifier had not previously "seen."
> 
> It was quite surprising that so few IT neurons (several hundred out of millions) for such a short period of time contained so much precise information. "If we could record a larger population of neurons simultaneously, we might find even more robust codes hidden in the neural patterns and extract even fuller information," Poggio said.
> 
> Source: MIT
> 
> http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story391.htm
>