can any physics majors dwell on whether the eye or the brain sees?

Question

hasnt anyone seen the crazy string theory video

the one that is called "what the bleep do we know"

if you havnt seen the movie then dont bother answering cuz none of you know what im talking about.. hah

Answer 1

This is sort of like asking whether the radio set or the radio towers mak the noise. The photoreceptors in the eyes take in the information of the outside world, and send a signal through the optic nerve to the brain, where the brain turns the signals into the picture that you perceive. If either the eyes or the optic center in the brain stop working, you'll lose your sight. So technically, both of them see, because you need them both.

Answer 2

I'm not a physics major, but in high school biology class, we spent a while on this. It was a long time ago, but the teacher explained that the eye acts like a camera. The brain processes the image sent by the eye.

Answer 3

DON'T BELIEVE THAT VIDEO!
For crying out lou it deals with a psuedoscience. I don't see how some people can be so stupid to take that video seriously. Every Physicist and the scientific community ridicules that "documentary". It does not deal with science at all, it is based on the teachings of some moron who claims she can talk to a 30,000 year old Atlantean god......I mean come on, she's a freakin' nut.

To answer your question, everything goes back to your brain at the end. The answerer above me has it correct.

Answer 4

Technically, to see is an action of receiving scattered light into a camera kind organ, and transduces it into photo electrical stimuli by rhodopsin kind proteins in the retina, then these signals are transmitted via a cumulus of neurons that sends them in a upside -down -space orientated manner to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, receiving half information from one side and half from the other. So with all of this technical bla, bla, I assume that it really is the camera kind organ who really sees, and the brain only gathers and reconstructs the picture's seen.

Answer 5

Our eyes see. They gather light, focus it upon the retinas, and encode raw images into "electrical" pulses. There's also a considerable amount of processing in our eyes -- edge and movement detection networks; this data is also encoded into "electrical" pulses.

It's up to the brain to do the rest of the interpretation.

Answer 6

The eye gathers the information, the brain interprets it.
I guess seeing is a matter of definition

Answer 7

only if they have a 1026 iq but the answer is no only curtain areas in the small psychology in physics will say why and let someone only to describe the mental moral and reasonable reasons why not to dwell and why it is not ok to do it in physics. it practacally insults everyone else

Answer 8

Now why would we go and assume that the eye is seperate from the brain?