Why can’t an eye transplant cure blindness?

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Why can’t an eye transplant cure blindness?

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These people are very right about the optic nerve being a big roadblock in the idea. But blindness can be caused by factors other than anatomical features of the eye. For example, the eye and nerve might be totally fine and working but there is an issue with signal transmission in the occipital lobe and the sensory information never gets processed. Even if you could attach the optic nerve perfectly

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