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> These aren't so different from our own brains, which remember what we thought we saw, rather than the light that reached our retinas. Never mind memories; th
by danaliv 6y ago
> These aren't so different from our own brains, which remember what we thought we saw, rather than the light that reached our retinas.
Never mind memories; there are parts of our eyes that aren’t responsive to light at all. We’re always hallucinating.
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- webmaven 6y ago> Never mind memories; there are parts of our eyes that aren’t responsive to light at all. We’re always hallucinating. Are you referring to the blind spot, or something else? Interestingly, the blind spot turns out not to be a design requirement, it is a contingent feature that cephalopods like octopuses (whose eyes evolved independently from vertebrates') don't have.