Art and Imagination

This book contains of a description of how we see, think and make art
which depends on the fact that we do not the world directly from our eyes.
We see a picture of the physical world that your brain makes in your head
which I call the visual world. You are not aware of this fact because your
brain makes you think you see the world directly from your eyes. This illusion
is essential because you depend on your visual world to get around in the
real world that does not diminish the scale. Using light waves projected by
the lenses of your eyes onto the cells of your retinas your brain produces
your visual world in the form of a lens projected picture using lines, shapes,
surfaces, forms, space and colors. You can tell your visual world is lens
projected picture by its diminishing scale. Ironically the existence of this
illusionary visual world proves the existence of the underlying real world.
I use the term vision for the neural process that produces that produces
your visual world in contrast with the external physical process that projects
light waves onto your retinas which I call eyesight. Your brain's amazing
ability to make a visual world seems rooted in an underlying neural process
modeled after the linear geometry of eyesight. Your experience of the visual
world includes your visual self. Your presence in relation to the visual world
includes the parts of yourself you can see and feel. You can tell they are
lens projected by your hand growing smaller when you move it away. You
see your visual world and experience your other senses in relation to your
visual self. Your awareness of your visual world relative to your visual self
constitute consciousness making vision a primary function of your brain. It
stands to reason that a visual center of being came into existence through
evolution some six hundred million years ago with the development of
eyes and eyesight. Eyes would have not been of use if this were not so.