What evolved first: the eye or optic nerve?

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I’ve always wondered how eyes evolved.

You need an optic nerve to transmit the info to the brain, but why would we evolve eyes without that, or an optic nerve without eyes. What purpose would it serve?

Maybe a random mutation led to eyes that were useless till then a nerve evolved like a million years later?

Or they both happened at the same time over a million years or so?

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This should clear it up.  Also single celled organisms have eyespots that can sense light vs dark.  Not sure if you count that though 

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