Page 69 - Miracle in the Eye

HARUN YAHYA
An Image Breaking Down
Every detail of an image falling on the retina travels around the skull as
electrical signals. Their destination, where they will be interpreted, is the vi-
sual cortex in the occipital lobe, located at the back of the brain.
Information from the retina reaches the visual center as jumbled signals,
which nerve cells decode and convert into the three-dimensional images we
see. In a sense, the brain works like a very advanced computer, solving bil-
lions of electrical signals instantly.
The brain is an organ of two hemispheres. As already mentioned, the
occipital lobe in each hemisphere takes signals only from the opposite eye. In
other words, information about the right side of the visual field is sent to the
left occipital lobe, and vice versa.
In his research papers, neuroscientist Colin Blakemore poses a question
we have yet to answer effectively. What, he asks, does the brain do after col-
lecting and dispersing visual information? He goes on to ask why the dis-
persing occurs in the first place, if the brain then reassembles everything to
form the picture. 20
The phenomenally complicated process works, thanks to the combined
effort of eye components, eye-to-brain nerve cells and electrical signals. But
despite this, the process is regulated and seemingly immune to confusion

(Figure 2.5).
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