Speculations on How Vision Makes Light, Color, and Brightness in Space: Speculations on Accelerations as Models of Sensations Speculations on Color Opponent Processes Speculations on Sensory-Organ Brain-Pathway Variables and Amounts Speculations on Brain Physiology Speculations on Vision Information Processing Speculations on Perceptions Speculations on Experiences Speculations on Experiences of Light, Color, and Brightness in Space Facts about: Evolution and Development of Sensation and Perception Vision Reception, Opponent Processes, and Analysis/Synthesis Color and Brightness and their Properties Hearing, Touch, Temperature, Smell, Taste, and Pain Cognition and Perception Location, Distance, Space, and Stationary Space Experience, Consciousness, Meaning, and New Things Information Processing and Computation Mathematics and Physics of Sensation and Perception September 26, 2021, Edition (Previous edition: September 22, 2021) Copyright © 2008 to 2021 John Franklin Moore. All rights reserved. Contents Speculations on Accelerations as Models of Sensations .................................................................... 1 Speculations on Color Opponent Processes ........................................................................................ 2 1. Opponent processes and color categories ................................................................................... 2 1.1. All three opponencies and colors ......................................................................................... 2 1.2. Opponency properties and colors ......................................................................................... 3 2. Comparisons among opponent processes and color properties .................................................. 3 2.1. Black-white properties and color lightness .......................................................................... 3 2.2. Yellow-blue and red-green properties and color and temperature ....................................... 3 2.3. Yellow-blue and red-green properties and hue chroma/saturation levels ............................ 3 3. Opponent-process differentials and color amounts .................................................................... 3 4. Opponent-process analysis and color amounts ........................................................................... 4 Speculations on Sensory-Organ Brain-Pathway Variables and Amounts .......................................... 5 1. Brain-pathway physiology .......................................................................................................... 5 2. Brain-pathway spatial and temporal characteristics ................................................................... 5 Speculations on Brain Physiology ...................................................................................................... 6 1. Signal flows ................................................................................................................................ 6 1.1. Discrete-to-continuous and local-to-global signal flow ....................................................... 6 1.2. Coarse and fine tuning ......................................................................................................... 6 2. Functions ..................................................................................................................................... 6 3. Circuits ........................................................................................................................................ 6 3.1. Circuit types ......................................................................................................................... 7 3.2. Learning ............................................................................................................................... 7 4. Neural networks .......................................................................................................................... 7 Speculations on Vision Information Processing ................................................................................. 8 1. Vision programming ................................................................................................................... 8 1.1. Evolution and development ................................................................................................. 8 1.2. High-level computation ....................................................................................................... 9 2. Spatial datatypes ......................................................................................................................... 9 2.1. Rendering ............................................................................................................................. 9 2.2. Space datatype ................................................................................................................... 10 3. Spatial-datatype properties ....................................................................................................... 10 3.1. Spatial relations and indexing ............................................................................................ 10 3.2. Language and meaning ...................................................................................................... 10 3.3. Definitions .......................................................................................................................... 10 4. Programming ............................................................................................................................ 11 4.1. MAIN program .................................................................................................................. 11 4.2. Digital to analog conversion .............................................................................................. 11 4.3. Stationary space ................................................................................................................. 11 4.4. Observer, observations, and space ..................................................................................... 11 4.5. Functions ............................................................................................................................ 11 Speculations on Perceptions ............................................................................................................. 12 1. Knowledge ................................................................................................................................ 12 2. Perceptions ................................................................................................................................ 13 2.1. Perception properties ......................................................................................................... 13 ii 2.2. Whereas brain activity is microscopic, perceptions are macroscopic ................................ 13 3. Models ...................................................................................................................................... 14 4. Perceptions and space ............................................................................................................... 14 5. Perception, action, memory, and imagination .......................................................................... 14 Speculations on Experience .............................................................................................................. 15 1. Experiences/space ..................................................................................................................... 15 1.1. Qualities ............................................................................................................................. 15 2. Self and space ........................................................................................................................... 15 3. Meaning .................................................................................................................................... 16 4. Visualization, imagination, dreams, and recall of memories .................................................... 16 5. From perceptions to experiences .............................................................................................. 16 5.1. General ............................................................................................................................... 16 5.2. Large scale ......................................................................................................................... 17 5.3. New spatial-datatype methods and variables ..................................................................... 17 5.4. Dimension change, geometric algebra, and space ............................................................. 17 5.5. Stationary space ................................................................................................................. 17 5.6. Local to global ................................................................................................................... 17 5.7. General/category/global to detail/individual/particular/local ............................................ 18 5.8. Discrete/digital to continuous/analog ................................................................................ 18 5.9. Unified reading and writing ............................................................................................... 18 5.10. Observer-observation