it’s been discovered that if you make one of your eyes watch a complicated sequence of rapidly changing patterns, then this will distract your visual system to such an extent that you’ll be completely unaware of a still image shown to the other eye.11 In summary, you can have a visual image in your retina without experiencing it, and you can (while dreaming) experience an image without it being on your retina. This proves that your two retinas don’t host your visual consciousness any more than a video camera does, even though they perform complicated computations involving over a hundred
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