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Inner Light In order to understand what light is one has to understand how vision works. The process of visual perception is incredibly complex, involving many functions of the brain. In Arthur Zajonc's book "Catching the Light," he writes, "…vision requires far more than a functioning physical organ. Without an inner light, without a formative visual imagination, we are blind." The function of registering visual information, seeing, requires learning to see, in other words, in …

…connected to vision; one remembers mostly what one perceived visually, only after that the recollection of other senses and thoughts begins. Our earliest memories come from a period when the conscious visual perception becomes possible. That is why people's earliest memories vary in age. Every individual develops at different rate. Once one knows, or understands what it is one is seeing, or that one is seeing something at all, the world begins to make sense.