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why is the processing visual information located in the Occipital lobe? why the back part of the brain, why not the front?
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You mean why in a philosophic sense? The primary visual cortex just happens to be in the occipital lobe... I'm not sure there's a particular "reason" why the arrangement of processing centers in the brain isn't rotated or something...
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Ditto to gettheleadout. Who knows why.
But if I had to venture a wild guess, I would say maybe natural selection found that there was a smaller chance of trauma to the back of the head than the front of the head. If you get your face smashed in by a dinosaur or a fellow caveman with a giant club, better to damage the frontal lobes rather than lose your eyesight.
But if I had to venture a wild guess, I would say maybe natural selection found that there was a smaller chance of trauma to the back of the head than the front of the head. If you get your face smashed in by a dinosaur or a fellow caveman with a giant club, better to damage the frontal lobes rather than lose your eyesight.
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