So I was watching TV, and a commercial came on about pushing the human limits (a documentary that's going to come on Discovery soon in the next week). It interested me so I checked out the website, and then I ran into this...

"How does the brain create an uninterrupted view of the world?

If you've ever used a camcorder, you've probably noticed that the picture can be pretty shaky as you move from one image to the next. But for most of us, our eyes -- the video cameras of our brain, if you will -- suffer no unstable transition as they move quickly over a scene.
Scientists have understood this phenomenon for decades. To achieve a stable view despite quick eye movements, the eyes do an amazing thing: They take before and after shots of every focused image and compare them in order to confirm stability. In essence, before your eyes actually sense an object, your brain takes its own picture of it for comparison purposes. It knows where your eyes are going to move next, and it forms an image of the object that precedes our conscious, visual perception of it and lays the framework for a smooth visual transition.

So the process is in the books. But scientists have spent at least 50 years trying to find out how the brain manages this feat."

Source

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/human-bo...n-body-04.html

Unbelievable. I'm trying to think about how this is even possible to a place you have never gone in your life before... when you set your eyes on something for the first time in your life.