Building a bionic eye | EJ Chichilnisky

From Our Neurons to Yours · Mar 9, 2023 · 17m

We take this for granted, but our eyes are amazing.

They're incredible. We process the visual world so automatically and so instantaneously, we forget how much work our eyes and our brains are doing behind the scenes, taking in light through the eyeball, transforming light into electrical signals in the retina, packaging up all that information, and sending it on to the brain, and then making sense of what it is we're seeing and responding to it.

In fact, new science is showing that the eye itself, meaning the retina, is actually doing quite a bit of the fancy image processing that scientists…