"To analyze a visual scene, the brain divides it into subdimensions -- color, motion, form, depth -- and works on each aspect simultaneously (Livingstone & Hubel, 1988). We then construct our perceptions by integrating the separate but parallel work of these different visual teams. To recognize a face, your brain integrates information projected by your retinas to several visual cortex areas, compares it to stored information, and enables you to recognize the face: Grandmother!" -- Page 239-240
This video aims to depict what the eye sees and how the brain works to process it. So much happens in front of a single pair of human eyes. As he says in the clip, "to understand is to perceive patterns." Everything humans see in is in some sort of recurring pattern form; they are just layers and layers of patterns: patterns of color, patterns of motion, patterns of form, and patterns of depth. The human brain works hard to piece all of these pieces together by parallel processing. When these pieces are placed together, a large image is seen, one that the brain processes from the eyes and allows verbal and mental recognition. This processing that occurs gives way to appreciation of the world one exists within.
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