How does the eye know when the image is in focus? There is distance measuring device, only light entering the eye. No outer feedback to be sure that focus is in fact focus not something the eye think is focus.

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I’ve wondered this myself and I’m gonna throw out an idea that there is a mechanism within the eye to focus.

My hypothesis is that the light reflected off the back of the retina would cast a halo of light on the inside of the eye. The retina has light cones over the surface that would seem to be outside of the FOV and our visual cortex false colors a large portion of our view.

If this is correct, then maybe as the eye focuses on the source of light, the halo would be tighter in focus. There also might be a difference in where that focus would be based on the distance to the source.

Our brain, cortex, and eyes all seem to be capable of this process.

Just a thought.