Agent Ferret...?!?

From the University of Rochester News article Under the Surface, the Brain Seethes With Undiscovered Activity:

(An interesting article in itself, but my curiosity picqued with this line

Weliky, in a bit of irony, set 12 ferrets watching the reality-stretching film The Matrix. He recorded how their brains responded to the film, as well as to a null pattern like enlarged television static, and a darkened room.

and to save you the bother of reading on:

“The basic findings are exciting enough, but you can’t help but speculate on what they might mean in a deeper context,” says Weliky. “It’s one thing to say a ferret’s understanding of reality is being reproduced inside his brain, but there’s nothing to say that our understanding of the world is accurate. In a way, our neural structure imposes a certain structure on the outside world, and all we know is that at least one other mammalian brain seems to impose the same structure. Either that or The Matrix freaked out the ferrets the way it did everyone else.”

The full article is at : http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1898



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