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The cable that turns light into opinions, with a built-in blind spot you never notice.
means The bundle of nerve fibers that carries visual signals from the retina to the brain, where they're actually turned into the images you 'see.'
from From Greek 'optikos' (relating to the eye or sight), tracing back to 'ops' meaning eye — the same ancient root that gives us 'optics' and 'optical.' 'Nerve' comes from Latin 'nervus,' originally meaning sinew or tendon, since early anatomists didn't always distinguish nerves from the cord-like tissues they resembled. The phrase simply names the thing plainly: the sinew of sight.
- blind spot
- No photoreceptors where it exits the eye
- fiber count
- About 1.2 million nerve fibers per eye
- brain, really
- Technically part of the central nervous system
- no repairs
- Once damaged, it does not regenerate