How does our eyes interpret so many photons of light which travels so much faster than neural signals?

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How is it that we see the world almost instantaneously? Shouldn’t it take much longer to interpret so many photons which are bombarding the eyes with speed of light? Shouldn’t our vision lag?

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Not all the photons get processed. If that’s what you’re asking. This is why if you stare at a propeller or a car wheel, it appears to rotate at a different rate than it actually rotates. The rate it appears to rotate at is the rate that your eyes create the neural signals. You can get the same effect with video cameras that also have a fixed rate that they can create each video frame

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