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Someone looking through a win-
dow is actually seeing images
of the landscape that form in
his brain, rather than the
outside world itself.
LIGHT
ELECTRICAL
SIGNAL
Light reaching the
eyes is transformed
AN IMAGE OF A into electrical sig-
LANDSCAPE FORMED nals by the optical
BY ELECTRICAL SIG- cells and transmit-
NALS
ted to the visual
centre at the rear of
the brain. The "con-
sciousness" in our
brains perceives these
electrical signals as the
landscape.