Symbiotic Eye-Brain Relationship.
By Tomás Núñez, ThD
The eyes are responsible for providing visual information to the brain, which interprets and processes the information. It is through the retina that information reaches the brain, so that it can attribute factors such as color, shape, etc., to be returned to the eye.
Visual perception allows us to discriminate and interpret external stimuli (what the retina transmits) to relate them to the individual’s prior knowledge as well as to their emotional state. The retina only transmits light effects, optical effects that arrive from the outside. This reception is called “vision.”
However, the eye is not only responsible for sending information to the brain for visual processing; it also allows the brain to process information quickly. Thanks to the information sent by the retina, the brain can transform these light effects and recreate external reality… giving meaning to what the eyes transmit.
Therefore, what the brain does not understand… the eye does not see.
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