The principles which are core to our philosophy
The visual process works according to fundamental guiding principles.
The developmental visual conditions we see are the result of natural processes.
Responses to non-developmental visual conditions such as injury, deformity, or illness, follow the same natural processes as developmental visual conditions, but altered by or constrained by the injury, etc.
The organism will come to balance with stress by meeting the stress.
Stress a combination of external load and internal readiness.
The balance achieved by the organism may not, and often will not be, spatially symmetric when viewed from outside the organism.
The organism attempts to balance energy and effort with achievement.
Optimal balance is vanishingly rare.
Distress tends to limit the available responses.
Much (Most) of this process occurs outside of the awareness of the organism, but the organism may become aware of the process.
Photophobia has been described as a response to light that can be neither used nor organized.
Myopia compresses the space within which action is directed.
Hyperopia blunts the flux of data by placing focal alignment in an undefined position. Preserves flexibility at the cost of stability and energy consumption.
Astigmatism makes the optical Z axis less meaningful. Visually, resolution is somewhat blunted while the ability to see adequately over a wider extent of the Z axis is enhanced. Creates the ability to “move without moving”.
Strabismus is an adaptive choice made to improve visual reliability at the cost of stability and energy. Like astigmatism, the Z axis is rendered less meaningful. Additionally relationships within space also become ambiguous.
Centering is selection of the volume of space from which to derive meaning, and the awareness of the relationships between each of the elements within the selected volume including the self.
Antigravity is the management of position and movement through awareness of change and potential change.
Identification is the awareness of the essential character of something and the ability to sort and categorize one object vs another and to group objects by category.
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