Seeing the Full Picture

Part II: The flaws in our design

Human eyesight is a pretty poor servant. We don’t just “not see all that well”. We see badly in low light and bright light… and we see badly in two very different ways.

One of them messes up our vision. The other messes up our whole nervous system.

Like a camera, our eyes are designed with a lens of their own which lets in light and then refracts it onto …