New experiments indicate that the retina does much more than transmit light to the optic nerve; it pre-processes a surreal movie of what we see and sends that to the brain for interpretation. Here is a one-minute simulation by Frank Werblin at UC Berkeley of how the retina would represent Werblin's face as he talks to a camera. Part of "The Movies in Our Eyes," by Frank Werblin and Botond Roska, from the April 2007 edition of Scientific American, pp. 72-79 (video copyright Frank Werblin)
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