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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by danaliv on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:47PM (#26449846)
> These aren't so different from our own brains, which remember what we thought we saw, rather than the light that reached our retinas.

Never mind memories; there are parts of our eyes that aren’t responsive to light at all. We’re always hallucinating.

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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by webmaven on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:23PM (#26478936)
> Never mind memories; there are parts of our eyes that aren’t responsive to light at all. We’re always hallucinating.

Are you referring to the blind spot, or something else?

Interestingly, the blind spot turns out not to be a design requirement, it is a contingent feature that cephalopods like octopuses (whose eyes evolved independently from vertebrates') don't have.

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