[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] 11th and 12th fingers

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,

I am hoping you will be able to help me with some questions. They are not very academically phrased and pretty rambling
so I  hope you will excuse this. And I suppose the questions are over simplified and have great gulfs of missing logic but
I hope you will understand what I mean.

My questions are:

I was wondering if one evolutionary-wise could say that the eyes are in away our 11th and 12th fingers?
The octopus - doesn't the octopus have a very similar eye to humans? Perhaps in the octopuses' development
after 8 touch tentacles its evolutionary self thought
 'what about a variation on the theme. I want to know about that thing in the distance but I can't reach it. Let me "build" something that doesn't have to touch physically but will still give me the same information I get when I touch?'

And the eye was developed and became the octopuses ninth tentacle.

And if we assume that the first 8 tentacles send information to a part of the brain that analyzes tentacle
retrieved information, such as contrasts or lack of contrasts which make changes on a surface, wouldn't
the eye, the ninth tentacle, do the same- that is send it to the same area of the brain as the other 8 tentacles?

So then this new fangled 9th " tentacle"  even though it is modified its aim is to the same as the other 8
 tentacles - that is to send tentacle information to that part of the brain that understands it.

The common point between the original 8 tentacles and the new fangled 9th is the information they are
 searching for to send to the brain.

 Perhaps people are a type of octopi and when our 11th and 12th tentacles (eyes) don't work we use the others (fingers)?
And that works because they were all built to get the same type of information and send that information to the same place in the brain.

Fingers need to contact and move to retrieve information while eyes contact and move in a different way to
 receive similar information. The eye has to constantly move to see just as the finger does to feel - could one call
the eye haptic? The haptic eye?

So the 9th tentacle (eye) goes about its tentacle job sending tentacle type information to that part of the brain that takes
in tentacle information  and even though the eye is a bit differently formed than the other tentacles, it looks for the same type of information.

Just as humans can't see the surface of Mars but they want information so they develop tools to gather information about objects out of range . Information   of the type that they know  how to analyze and understand.


And another question- is the reason that when looking at something the urge to touch and hold the object is so strong is because of a close evolutionary connection between touch and sight? I mean if we hear something we don't have the same feeling of wanting to pick it up and touch it or..?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Lisa


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