The vertebrate eye is far more than a passive receptor for visual information. The microcircuitry in the retina can, for instance, carry out the job of distinguishing object motion from background motion.
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Masland, R. The retina's fancy tricks. Nature 423, 387–388 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423387a
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