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From: rmachuca@wsmr06.ARPA (Raul Machuca  STEWS-ID-T 678-4686)
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Subject: 6Mil man
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 17:57:23 EDT
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	The six-million dollar man has an explanation which is
biological rather than psychological.
	The center on/off receptors of the eye are arranged
in a discrete matrix. An edge gives the greatest signal when
the edge passes thru the center of a cell. When there
is not enough of a signal the edge cannot be seen. An object
moving at a fast rate of speed will be seen by the mind as
a sequence of snapshots. These snapshots take place when the
edge is lined up with the centers of a group of receptors. I an object
is moving at a fast rate of speed the neurons will not recover
to take another snapshot until the object has moved a considerable
distance.

	The slow motion still frame technique is simulating on
film exactly this process. The brain reacts in the same way
as if wewere seeing a quickly moving object and thus the neurons
generate the same signals as caused by actually looking at something
moving at a fast rate of speed.