Reflexes are simply a hardwired circuits because waiting for high order thought processing up to the brain in response to certain stimuli (pain) will end up you

Reflexes are simply a hardwired circuits because waiting for high order thought processing up to the brain in response to certain stimuli (pain) will end up you being rather dead or badly injured. The retina has the same layered architecture of a scaffold of neurons and support cells as your cerebral cortex.