Topic: descartes

Descartes' (1596-1650) idea of vision, [1692]. The passage of nervous impulses from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de homine), 1692. (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The mysteries of the pineal gland

Matthew Rozsa
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier (Henry Holt and Co/Getty/Grandfailure)

How virtual reality proves we are real

Jaron Lanier