This is not a bad theory. However, with visual saccades an efferent copy of the motor command (the desire to move the eyes, the head or the body) is sent to vis

This is not a bad theory. However, with visual saccades an efferent copy of the motor command (the desire to move the eyes, the head or the body) is sent to visual areas. This is what allows to world to appear stable even though the eyes, head or body are moving. This is in contrast with passive observation of cuts in a movie, especially when the cuts are not expected or cannot otherwise be predicted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efference_copy#von_Helmholtz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efference_copy#von_Helmholtz