Anyway when your have hypnopompic hallucinations I recall your right fusiform gyrus goes a bit wonky and you see faces in pretty much anything.
Reading that I flashed on Sacks book: The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales.
Not only can brain function see faces that arent't there. If certain parts of the brain are damaged it can't see faces at all even though it can still see. The brain is such an extraordinary complex process.
I could be wrong and the twentieth century was pretty horrible in many respects but with global warming and overpopulation and oil reserves approaching exhaustion I don't envy the young except that they may see some huge advances in brain science that I will miss. The work that has been done so far on nerves and the nervous system has been fascinating and there is so much more to come.
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