Suggested reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cortex#Function
“Conceptually, this retinotopy mapping is a transformation of the visual image from retina to V1. The correspondence between a given location in V1 and in the subjective visual field is very precise: even the blind spots are mapped into V1.”
We can easily reject the Cartesian theater notions, but there are still “paintings” of images in our brains.
Suggested reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cortex#Function “Conceptually, this retinotopy mapping is a transformation of the visual image from retina to V1. The correspondence between a given location in V1 and in the subjective visual field is very precise: even the blind spots are mapped into V1.”
We can easily reject the Cartesian theater notions, but there are still “paintings” of images in our brains.