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Old 10-16-2011, 02:09 PM
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Default Re: A revolution in thought

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Originally Posted by Vivisectus View Post
NA, we also brought up the fact that because stars move relative to us and are many lightyears away, a camera should see a radically different picture of the night sky then our eyes, as the camera needs to wait for light to arrive while we should see the stars where they are today.

I never really got a good explanation for this either.
I need to clarify this. Assuming for a moment that the eyes are definitely efferent, then we have to look at the world from this perspective. What everyone is doing is using the afferent model to try to understand the efferent model. It won't work. It's like trying to fit a square into a circle. Think about this. If the lens has to be focused on the object, then it's no different as far as distance than an object that is right in front of us. All that matters is that the object is within the field of view of the lens, whether it's the lens of the eye or the lens of a camera or telescope.
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