YT2095 Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 light hits the eye and it`s converted to an electrical signal that travels down the optic nerve to the brain. HOW? and in what way? is the optic nerve millions of little nerves each carrying the data from a pixel each? is it one nerve that carries the data from one pixel at a time but very fast like the scan on a TV screen? how does it work?
wolfson Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/197.html Hope thats ok, Gray was excellant at anatomy/pathology.
YT2095 Posted February 24, 2004 Author Posted February 24, 2004 interesting indeed (I won`t pretend to understand all of it, I don`t) it seems to be on about the structure more than the mechanism of how we see though (from the bits I can understand). the part about it being similar to an extension of the brain tissue is interesting though! other than that, the whole idea behind sight and we see things seems unfathomable to me. our pixel ressolution is massive! and the processing is mili seconds, all through a little "nerve"! how can that be? what`s the event sequence behind it all?
wolfson Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 Ok try http://www.schlaganfall-sehstoerung.de/mechanics-science.htm
YT2095 Posted February 24, 2004 Author Posted February 24, 2004 Excellent! ) thnx man, and it`s in a language I can understand too
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