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Nine-Eyes t1_iwu8xlf wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in do we know how chameleons "see" Things with two independent eyes? Is it integrated? Side by side? by VivendusMoriendumEst

Yeah, that's a human brain evolved to use parallax for depth perception, but how does a chameleon's visual cortex work differently with those independently-operated eyeballs?

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Iron_Rod_Stewart t1_iwufuok wrote

We don't know what a chameleons inner life is like, but imagine you're in a dark cave and are feeling both sides of it with your hands. They move independently but you're still able to form a pretty good idea of what the space around you is shaped like.

People think of binocular vision as a series of static images we have to integrate before using them, but it's really more of a stream of information we can use on-the-fly as in the cave example.

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