https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina
Wouldnt it be faster like those cephalopods mentioned in the article above. I couldnt understand half of it.
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As to the question of the brain processing the image “as is” being more “efficient”. The brain is super elastic and dynamic and can over time adjust and deal with changes to nerve signals to process them correctly.
An example of this is that a psychologist wore a pair of glasses that flipped images as they entered his eyeballs. After about a week of wearing those glasses he could perform everything normally and he no longer even consciously noticed the image was upside down.
When he took the glasses off, everything looked upside down for a bit until his brain flipped the image back to normal.
So it’s not like the brain is hardcoded to understand upside down images because of the image flip in the design of the eyeball. Rather the brain takes in the nerve signals from the eyes and processes it along with other nerve signals (such as inner ear) and creates a learned, processed “image” in the brain that’s useful for navigating the world, not a pure unprocessed photo of what the eyeball is actually sensing.
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