Paige 62 photo receptors capture photos and transform that…
Paige 62 photo receptors capture photos and transform that physical stimulus into a local code of electrical signals that the brain can understand. The problem is that if you want to send individualized information from each of those 100 million photo receptors you would need 100 million wires , the axons of the retinal ganglion cells forming the optic nerve which connects the eye to the brain . This would require an impossible amount of space and energy. An optic nerve with 100, million axons would have a diameter similar to that of the eye itself and would occupy approximately 40% of the available volume in the brain.
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