How do other animals see the world?

Re:How do other animals see the world? by MontyCarloHall on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:05PM (#32174562)

This is very far from understanding how cats actually perceive the world, but it's possible to extract crude images [0] from a cat's lateral geniculate nucleus (the part of the visual pathway between the eye and the visual cortex). The LGN likely does not perform much (if any) role in high level visual cognition (that's reserved for the visual cortex), but it does perform a lot of image preprocessing.

It might just be pareidolia, but IMO that preprocessing results in the human face looking strikingly catlike.

[0] https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-...

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Re:How do other animals see the world? by MaxLeiter on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:14PM (#32175353)

I found the link incredible, and the fact its from 1999 is even cooler. Thanks for sharing

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Re:How do other animals see the world? by okasaki on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:05AM (#32178839)

The part where they torture and kill animals is less cool, I guess.

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Re:How do other animals see the world? by gpvos on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:37AM (#32179212)

> It might just be pareidolia, but IMO that preprocessing results in the human face looking strikingly catlike.

That's mostly because of the low resolution I think; the cat will see more detail.

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Re:How do other animals see the world? by HFguy on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:58PM (#32175629)

Very cool

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