Like video cameras, are eyes and brains able to view the world in changing shutter speeds and frame rates? Why or why not?
In: Biology
No.
The retina of your eye is covered by about 7 million cone cells which each trigger a depolarization event when enough light of a wavelength they’re sensitive to strikes them, and then resets themselves.
There’s no mechanism to synchronize these depolarization events into anything resembling a framerate, and the closest thing the human eye has to a shutter, the eyelid, instead performs the function of a lens cap.
What the human brain does have is an attention system which will shift “computational resources” between different sections of your field of view and other senses, depending on which one millions of years of evolution has predicted is the most important one at any given point in time.
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