Bro myopia is the least stupid part of our eye design problems. Our retinas are built entirely backwards for no other reason besides evolution making a mistake and then duct taping over it too much to fix it later.

If your retina was the right way around (like cephalopod eyes) you would have:

  • No blind spots
  • Higher fidelity vision even with the same number of receptors since the nerves and blood vessels wouldn’t interfere like they do now
  • much lower likelihood of retinal detachment since you could attach it for real in the first place
  • possibility for better brightness/darkness resolution since blood supply could be greater without affecting light passage
  • possibility for better resolution because ganglion nerves can be packed more densely without affecting light passage
  • The ability to regenerate cones and rods because you could, again, ACTUALLY HAVE SUPPORT CELLS WITHOUT BLOCKING LIGHT TO THE RETINA

Our eyes are built in the stupidest way possible.

Another fun fact: retinol is regenerated by your liver. Not your eyes, not some part of your brain, not some organ near your head like your thalamus which could probably get the job done if it tried, your fucking liver. Your eyes taking a while to adjust to the dark has basically nothing to do with your eyes; it’s because of the delay in adjustment by your fucking liver to produce more retinal, dump it into your vascular system and wait for it to hopefully reach your eyes. Why are we built like this?!

I’m reading this with my poorly designed eyes right now!
I wish we could use genetics or some interest8ng science to fix this.
I’d be down for some cybernetic eyes with better resolution and a zoom option and shit

Not just eyes.

Also, i wouldn’t consider them “cybernetic”, i’d consider them “improved” or “upgraded”.

Maybe “augmented”?
Who needs augmentation? Let’s just get the organ printer out and update to Mk2 Eyeball.