
A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 2
Peter Rollins - The Archive
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The Role of White Cornea in the Development of Desire
A child at a certain age becomes interested in where the parents eyes are looking at and they started to attend themselves to where the attention of their parent like where that alites. A remarkable fact of not just the higher primates but all the mammals were the only one with this white cornea that you might say are the sort of theater curtains of the pupil that we follow. We're enabled by this white zone all around the pupil to track what someone's looking at even at an amazing distancewe can see across a broad boulevard we can see quite precisely where someone's gaze is is is aimed, especially when it's on us.
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