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Peacegirl, what do you mean when you say "focus"? It means something different from the regular way the word is used, as that is an inherently afferent process.
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Yes, light is striking the retina and that is an afferent process, but how the brain causes this focusing of the eyes is not an afferent process. As I said earlier, it doesn't matter to me whether the eyes are a sense organ. Do you want me to finish posting or have you lost interest? |
So what does you mean when you say "focusing"? What is happening when the brain focuses the eyes? |
When there is enough stimulation to the baby from the 4 senses, he begins to desire to see what it is he is experiencing which causes the brain to focus the eyes, or to work together as a unit. |
ANd what is that "focusing" you speak of? What happens to what when focusing happens? |
What happens is that the external world would come into view. Obviously, if the child had any kind of eye problem (such as myopia) things would be blurred, but that's a different issue. |
That is the end result, not what is happening.You seem to be struggling to answer my question. Is it then that "focusing" is just a different way of saying "looking at"? |
No, it's another way of saying what it says, namely, focus. If an infant cannot focus, he cannot see the world through eyesight. Part of the process has to do with being stimulated by the other senses. So it's just being able to "look at", but that is the end result. |
Focus means focus? But it cannot mean what we normally mean: to redirect light to hit a certain spot on a retina or sensor. The word refers to an inherently afferent process, and one that you and the book say is not really involved in how we see.
Which is why I keep asking you - what do you mean when you say focus? What happens when one "focuses", the way you and the book use the word? I currently do not understand what you mean when you say the word, and I would like to be able to see if I agree with you or not.