Convergent vs. Parallel Perception
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Convergent vs. Parallel Perception:
"All exclusively three-dimensional matrixes, consisting only of parallel lines and perpendicular rectilinear interactions--like parallel railroad tracks--inherently fail to accommodate any terminal convergence. Such matrixes fail to accommodate the inherent strategy of range-finding: the fact that the linear-distance relationship between our two human eyes--and also those of other optically equipped creatures--was designed to provide the base line of a triangle whose opposite apex occurs at the position of a sighted object. The convergent apex angle of the object provides the human brain's computer circuitry with a limited, distance-to-object-magnitude appraising, or range-finding perceptivity, whose maximum terrestrial range is the horizon. Beyond the horizon the distances apart of remote objects are reduced to optically nontunable angle-size-or-frequency discernability. Ergo, at the maximum tunability of differential-wavelength-perceptivity our range-finding optical system produces a false image of a seemingly convergent pair of parallel railroad tracks. It is not that the tracks or the ties are coming together but that the distance between them is subtunable."
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