Think for a moment, on the eye of the fly.

It does not move from side to side, or up and down.  But it’s complexity is quite considerable.  It is a compound eye, made up of thousands of individual visual receptors.  For the fly each of these receptors is essentially a lens that allows the fly to see a slightly different view in relation to the tiny receptor right next to it.  These thousands of individual perspectives are then channeled, in a manner similar to that of the human eye, by the optic nerve, which then relays the information directly into the brain.

The fly is able to see thousands of individual, but different, perspectives at once, and have these views coalesce into an expansive, comprehensive view of its world.

Why then, as humans, are we so challenged to see beyond our singular, limited scope, to view things not from thousands, but just one other perspective?

Humbly yours,

J