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The earliest theories about the visual system regarded the eye not as receiving signals but rather as an emitter of “psychic stuff;” vision was a process of feeling the scene. This led the early anatomists to regard the optic nerve as a hollow tube through which this “stuff” was transmitted.
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Sharp, P.F., Philips, R. (1993). Physiological Optics. In: Hendee, W.R., Wells, P.N.T. (eds) The Perception of Visual Information. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6769-8_1
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