Why The Human Eye Is A Design Disaster - Cheddar Explains

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024

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  • @dobetter5263
    @dobetter5263 Před 3 lety +3143

    So basically toddlers should be outside most of the time to avoid eye issues later in life
    Kindergartens, any comment on that?

    • @eddychen8959
      @eddychen8959 Před 3 lety +391

      As a certified kindergartener I 100 percent agree

    • @michaelsmith4904
      @michaelsmith4904 Před 3 lety +233

      Is it too late to go back to kindergarten?

    • @ShipCreek
      @ShipCreek Před 3 lety +180

      There has been a study. In japan I think. They let children outside to play for an hr each day. After a certain amount of time their eyesight improved. Those needing reading glass's no longer needed them.

    • @uzefulvideos3440
      @uzefulvideos3440 Před 3 lety +23

      We were always a few hours outside each day in kindergarten.

    • @RandomGuitarist7
      @RandomGuitarist7 Před 3 lety +18

      if you watch screens all the time later in your life, I dont think it will count tbh

  • @aureusknighstar2195
    @aureusknighstar2195 Před 3 lety +1276

    I just talked with the CEO of Evolution. He said that it will be patched in about...34,000 years

    • @genericname1523
      @genericname1523 Před 3 lety +32

      lmao

    • @tokisugar
      @tokisugar Před 3 lety +106

      Smh the update should have already come with the patch. Lazy developers making us live in an incomplete version.

    • @emilianstaniak504
      @emilianstaniak504 Před 3 lety +32

      I mean that's assuming they don't delay it, and plus that's extremely fast for them so it definitely will.

    • @yooseul__
      @yooseul__ Před 3 lety +9

      they better not delay it again i heard the patch was supposed to come out last year

    • @ZielAmerak
      @ZielAmerak Před 3 lety +25

      Only if you pay for the DLC, the public version will be in about 100,000 years.

  • @eiya3
    @eiya3 Před 3 lety +3690

    Torn between "life is miraculous, how amazing that we can see at all" and "if there is a God he needs to take a few more design classes".

    • @Barten0071
      @Barten0071 Před 3 lety +114

      "if there is a God he needs to take a few more design classes" but onece he made a good job.

    • @Barten0071
      @Barten0071 Před 3 lety +67

      @Deifan which one

    • @cinamontoast2555
      @cinamontoast2555 Před 3 lety +48

      @Deifan father

    • @rust5427
      @rust5427 Před 3 lety +66

      @Deifan there's a lot of gods over the ages most are already forgotten

    • @AM-bj7yo
      @AM-bj7yo Před 3 lety +167

      Oh there is this one thing that we don’t understand about this design, well must be a bad designer, how arrogant.
      I’m a medical student in my 6th and last year of medicine, and I’m hoping to get into ophthalmology next year, and I can tell you that the eye is one of the most complex organs in our body, and one of the hardest to understand the structure of, or the function of, let alone to speculate about the purpose of its design, and then you have someone who comes along with a simplistic mindset to call it a design disaster..
      Such arrogance comes from a horrific lack of understanding and lack of knowledge.
      The retina she talks about being backwards is 10 layers! And we barely understand the function of 3 of them, but sure let’s just jump to conclusions and say it’s just poor design, rather than poor understanding.
      You would never find an ophthalmology scholar saying such things with that confidence, because they understand how limited our knowledge and understanding is of this masterpiece that is our eye.

  • @thefloofbirb8489
    @thefloofbirb8489 Před 3 lety +1997

    “Near-sightedness is caused by too big of eyes”
    Anime girls: 👁👄👁

    • @trevordrakenor2063
      @trevordrakenor2063 Před 3 lety +211

      Its no wonder nearly everybody could sneak up on them and they dont notice lol.
      Is probably why some antagonist gave em heroes time to talk to each other in the middle of battle, cause they actually needed some time to find where the heroes are.

    • @beepbop6542
      @beepbop6542 Před 3 lety +36

      TBF she did say about 70 percent if East Asians have near sightedness...

    • @sundarbe
      @sundarbe Před 3 lety +9

      Naani??

    • @bagel9367
      @bagel9367 Před 3 lety +14

      👁 👁
      👄

    • @keyring7684
      @keyring7684 Před 3 lety +28

      No fucking wonder why Amy Rose can't make out the difference between Sonic and Shadow

  • @noveliniel52
    @noveliniel52 Před 2 lety +175

    I’m an optometrist, and we did touch on retina “design” in school. One advantage to having a backwards retina is it puts the rods and cones right next to the Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE). The RPE absorbs excess light so we get less glare and have better vision in bright light conditions. As opposed to animals like cats and deer that don’t have an RPE…they have a tapetum lucidum that reflects excess light (giving them the “glowing eyes” in headlights and better night vision). But they have to have very small pupils during the day or the glare would blind them. We didn’t discuss cephalopods much, but I think they’d have forward rods and cones because they’re typically deep water animals and light levels would be insanely low so they’d need as much help as they can get.

    • @ahmedyassir5569
      @ahmedyassir5569 Před 2 lety +23

      Exactly.
      Whether one believes in creation or evolution we should stop calling organs that we don’t know about badly designed. They most likely are better than what we think is the better alternative.

    • @VashTheDamnFiend
      @VashTheDamnFiend Před 2 lety

      @@ahmedyassir5569 dude it’s so cringey. These mfers would design humans with eyes that absorb too much light and testicles up our asses. I had to actually explain to someone why sperm can’t be created unless the testicles are on the outside of the body

    • @nedisawegoyogya
      @nedisawegoyogya Před 2 lety +3

      but why does the pigment have to be in the RPE? and about the excess light, evolution can easily bring colored cornea or lens to the table so that it excess light. smaller eyes are also a thing. reduced pigment sensitivity will handle excess light just fine, or even pigment filler. anything I said is better than the backward retina

    • @NomadAlly
      @NomadAlly Před 2 lety +3

      @@ahmedyassir5569 Yep pretty sure the “flaws” are just not understood properly

    • @WhatIsThis-zq4hk
      @WhatIsThis-zq4hk Před 2 lety +9

      @@NomadAlly OK but there are actual flaws though. Wisdom teeth are a great example. When our jaws used to be longer like the rest of our ape cousins, they were very useful. Now they just cause problems and they literally don't even grow in straight

  • @0RatedChess
    @0RatedChess Před 3 lety +5029

    Cheddar, lets just get to the point.
    The entire human is a design disaster.

    • @elikyals
      @elikyals Před 3 lety +128

      Bummer to the designer. lol

    • @holdenleeb2312
      @holdenleeb2312 Před 3 lety +194

      I need a repair manual

    • @RockiestRock
      @RockiestRock Před 3 lety +90

      @@holdenleeb2312 The Cult Mechanicus can help...

    • @gunnerguy31
      @gunnerguy31 Před 3 lety +16

      Ah yes, just thinking the same

    • @alexv3357
      @alexv3357 Před 3 lety +147

      The entirety of every living thing is just a series of jury-rigged half-solutions that keep a creature running long enough to reproduce. Hopefully.

  • @jonathanwisco1310
    @jonathanwisco1310 Před 3 lety +1231

    Cephalopods had their eyes set to "w" for Wumbo.

    • @Miranox2
      @Miranox2 Před 3 lety +40

      "I wonder if a fall from this height will be enough to kill me."

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 Před 3 lety +4

      Or Woomy.

    • @alex.jr2002
      @alex.jr2002 Před 3 lety +7

      Or for "Wow, my eyes are the coolest" xd

    • @tysondennis1016
      @tysondennis1016 Před 3 lety +5

      @@austinreed7343 “Woomy” makes more sense. And “M” is for “Mammal.” But “Wumbo” is a nice reference.

    • @notato5052
      @notato5052 Před 3 lety

      wacky

  • @evilduck992
    @evilduck992 Před 3 lety +776

    The conclusion of all of the design disaster videos; we must return to monke

    • @RichardRenes
      @RichardRenes Před 3 lety +41

      THat wouldn't help much.. our retinas would still be backwards, for instance.

    • @evilduck992
      @evilduck992 Před 3 lety +90

      @@RichardRenes yes, but Monke 😎😎😎

    • @roifilham29
      @roifilham29 Před 3 lety +60

      We must return to fish

    • @ktsp2538
      @ktsp2538 Před 3 lety +20

      @@roifilham29 so we commit execute cannabilism

    • @MsGeorge50
      @MsGeorge50 Před 3 lety +24

      God was a terrible engineer or he is just enjoying thé pain and suffering of his creation

  • @umutduran5363
    @umutduran5363 Před 3 lety +1059

    7:37 biblically accurate angels

    • @p3nguin316
      @p3nguin316 Před 3 lety +125

      "be not afraid this is completely normal"

    • @johnfitzgerald7618
      @johnfitzgerald7618 Před 3 lety +6

      @@rubenaalexander5007 I think we all could take a good guess at the type of metaphor Feud would have thought it was, too.

    • @dweagon
      @dweagon Před 3 lety +6

      evangelion

    • @mikroflax5929
      @mikroflax5929 Před 3 lety

      Haha

    • @-MVP-
      @-MVP- Před 3 lety +2

      Lol true

  • @HeroOfTheDay16
    @HeroOfTheDay16 Před 3 lety +158

    "Our eyes are getting harder and more inflexable and there's pretty much nothing we can do about it." Well thats until we get cyberpunk eyes of course

    • @davisdf3064
      @davisdf3064 Před 3 lety +13

      *Cyberpunk 2077 starts playi...
      Oh, wait, it crashed

    • @ethanrichardson2672
      @ethanrichardson2672 Před 3 lety +13

      sorry, but i'd rather my eyes not stop working in the middle of using them.

    • @archs1ay3r3
      @archs1ay3r3 Před 3 lety +2

      I would love to have cyberpunk eyes

    • @TheAkashicTraveller
      @TheAkashicTraveller Před 3 lety +13

      @@archs1ay3r3 I'd rather have bio-engineered eyes. AKA create lab grown eyes with all the issues fixed. Digital cameras are a long way from being a viable replacement except in extreme cases.

    • @archs1ay3r3
      @archs1ay3r3 Před 3 lety +2

      @@TheAkashicTraveller hm. Wow I never even knew there were bio-engineered eyes. Learn something new everyday.

  • @cakraarana6296
    @cakraarana6296 Před 3 lety +1172

    I love this series, all of our body is disaster in design, I don't know I started to think maybe I starting become a slightly masochist 😂

    • @ADMNtek
      @ADMNtek Před 3 lety +55

      at this point best option is to scrap the design and start from scratch.

    • @kirknay
      @kirknay Před 3 lety +44

      @@water3410 Have you met another human? We are all kinds of screwy.

    • @nobleactual7616
      @nobleactual7616 Před 3 lety +4

      A masochist?

    • @kirknay
      @kirknay Před 3 lety +13

      @@nobleactual7616 someone who enjoys pain, Including in the offbrand way.
      "She did it for that soldier who was into whips and chains."

    • @nobleactual7616
      @nobleactual7616 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kirknay Yeah I know what it means but reread the original post in that context lol

  • @djoxer
    @djoxer Před 3 lety +272

    since there's way less light in the bottom of the ocean, it makes sense to have more sensible eyes. But imagine having cephalopod eyes in the bright noon of a savanna?

    • @Obscurai
      @Obscurai Před 3 lety +45

      Perhaps, but all vertebrates have backwards retinas and not all vertebrates live in high light environments - some are even nocturnal.

    • @djoxer
      @djoxer Před 3 lety +13

      @@Obscurai True, but we would had to trace back the evolutionary lines to understand where this reverse retina started to appear and why non-reverse retinas weren't the norm (it may or may not be random).

    • @Obscurai
      @Obscurai Před 3 lety +25

      @@djoxer Evolution works with whatever genetics is currently available, and since reverse retinas were what was available and other factors became more dominant for survivability, reverse retinas were then less important and thus persisted. Specifically, morphology does not persist in genetic isolation from other genetic adaptations that may bestow greater advantages.
      The corollary is that poor adaptations persist into the future as in this case. The human body (and all lifeforms) is littered with genetically bad design from previous adaptations.
      Subsequent adaptations are certainly less random since they are acted upon by the environment, but the initial conditions are very random as simpler lifeforms attempt all variations.

    • @jirkaschiborr8556
      @jirkaschiborr8556 Před 3 lety

      That's what you have e pupil for

    • @tak2malay24
      @tak2malay24 Před 3 lety +6

      You got it correct. If sensors/rod/cones are not inverted in human eyes, it would have been very difficult to sleep into well lit places. If not placed backward, u will feel someone has placed two lit torch on both eyes.
      Human body is science and keeping it tuned/healthy requires above ordinary knowledge, wisdom and intuition. If u will do little bit research on Indian 100years before, it is clearly evident that there is no such thing like age related brain or eye deterioration. Gradual loss of wisdom and knowledge in modern life style is the only disaster.

  • @RahulAbhyankar19
    @RahulAbhyankar19 Před 3 lety +737

    Eye see what you did there, Cheddar.

    • @cheddar
      @cheddar  Před 3 lety +220

      Eye see what you did there, Rahul

    • @itstomatogear6806
      @itstomatogear6806 Před 3 lety +10

      Lol 😂

    • @LamZL1
      @LamZL1 Před 3 lety +58

      I see.. Cheddar's going an eye for an eye with that joke

    • @Fightre_Flighte
      @Fightre_Flighte Před 3 lety +19

      @Alex Ding
      I must cataract your opinion. Eye like what's going on here.

    • @crusty_
      @crusty_ Před 3 lety +4

      Certified dad classic

  • @jaredsies8257
    @jaredsies8257 Před 3 lety +23

    Hi! Optometry Student here! The retinal photo receptors are oriented backwards due to the photopigment disc's that allow for detection of light need to be removed after they are used up. They "bud off" and are phagocytized by the Retinal Pigment Epithelium. This cannot be accomplished if the retina photo receptors were forward facing.

    • @someguynamedelan
      @someguynamedelan Před 2 lety +3

      Yes, that explains how this whole system works. But why didn't our eyes evolve like like the octopus? I'm sure their photo pigment disks are also phagocytized, maybe placed somewhere else, but they still have their retinas facing forward.

    • @jaredsies8257
      @jaredsies8257 Před 2 lety +4

      @@someguynamedelan Because they didn't. I don't have detailed Physiology knowledge of octopus photoreceptor metabolism but they must have a different system.

  • @mandisaplaylist
    @mandisaplaylist Před 3 lety +25

    The "backwards retina" could be developed to improve night vision. In cats, dogs and other animals that tend to be nocturnal the eyes have a reflective coating below the retina to increase the amount of light absorbed by the photoreceptors by having the light go through them twice and humans probably have that too (red eyes in photos). In this case you must have the retina backwards because otherwise the image produced by one of the light passes will be blurred and thus not that useful. Maybe this gave enough advantage to the organism to prevent it from flipping the retina "the right way".
    Squids compensate by having really huge eyes. This is OK if you live in water but not that great if you live on land. Dust and debris in eyes quickly teached the evolving animals to hide the eyes in their heads, only showing the part that needs to be outside.

    • @linux_b1969
      @linux_b1969 Před 2 lety

      Wow

    • @jira6423
      @jira6423 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Octopus and cuttlefish don’t have huge eyes though.

  • @Housewarmin
    @Housewarmin Před 3 lety +672

    Not Long eyes!! 😂😂😂 OMG. Don’t let the kids at school hear this. I’m fine being called 4-eyes...but not LONG EYES. 😂

  • @heyk-lee
    @heyk-lee Před 3 lety +372

    Next, I expect to see a video titled "Why The Entire Human Body Is A Design Failure".

    • @cheddar
      @cheddar  Před 3 lety +189

      Okay coming up next

    • @LickMyRainbow77
      @LickMyRainbow77 Před 3 lety +28

      Better title “Humans are utter failures...of design!”

    • @TheGingerburger
      @TheGingerburger Před 3 lety +7

      Well our bodies are pretty shit 💩 compared to other animals

    • @luistorogarza3471
      @luistorogarza3471 Před 3 lety +12

      @@TheGingerburger that’s why we have tools to do things our body can not

    • @nathan7627
      @nathan7627 Před 3 lety +4

      @@cheddar pog

  • @bins1
    @bins1 Před 3 lety +208

    Humans: 1080p resolution
    Cephalopods: 8k resolution

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b Před 3 lety +31

      Me without glasses: 144p

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 Před 3 lety +5

      Me without glasses: HD resolution.
      Me with glasses: Full HD resolution with enhance colors.

    • @teggolT
      @teggolT Před 3 lety +2

      @diamond dogs It's one or are your eyes completely dark when you close them and turn the lights on

    • @78anurag
      @78anurag Před 3 lety +6

      My eye resolution: 4K 60 FPS
      Cephalopods: 24K with 240 FPS

  • @TheHunterGracchus
    @TheHunterGracchus Před 2 lety +7

    My cousin and her husband both have a PhD in experimental psychology, and he happens to specialize in vision. He once told me that a professor of his said that the eye is "a $5 camera" that "fixes everything up in post."

  • @user-pj1ec5om5g
    @user-pj1ec5om5g Před 3 lety +27

    “Evolution has been conspiring against you”
    At this point what hasn’t?

  • @zawwin1846
    @zawwin1846 Před 3 lety +229

    If naruto has taught me anything if you are going blind get a “fresh” pair of eyes from your siblings.

    • @WAVE0025
      @WAVE0025 Před 3 lety +14

      It also taught us that if you lose an eye, you can always take the eye of your dying friend who got half his body crushed by a boulder

    • @fapking9033
      @fapking9033 Před 3 lety

      Why are these 3 comments familiar
      I've watched naruto on tv yeah but i forgot

    • @victorelinvicto5216
      @victorelinvicto5216 Před 3 lety

      😂😂

    • @juch3
      @juch3 Před 2 lety

      You can also store some extra eyes on your arm

    • @ShwappaJ
      @ShwappaJ Před 2 lety

      That was so dark it should be an Uchiha

  • @avalonpage5985
    @avalonpage5985 Před 3 lety +384

    "close enough" is what god said

    • @timweiner7434
      @timweiner7434 Před 3 lety +7

      good enough for government work lol

    • @samuellinn
      @samuellinn Před 3 lety +15

      God too lazy to fix humen smh

    • @Sweg420
      @Sweg420 Před 3 lety +4

      "It just works."

    • @edwartoelrico333
      @edwartoelrico333 Před 3 lety +5

      He probably was like "they are smart enough to solve it themselves"

    • @rene1054
      @rene1054 Před 3 lety +5

      @@edwartoelrico333 God: "where is Part E7?......Fuck I build it backwards..... lets just make them smart enought to invent glasses just in case"

  • @rogink
    @rogink Před 3 lety +342

    The human eye is a design disaster. Now there's a challenge for a crazed genetic modification scientist...

    • @hecofemonetization6270
      @hecofemonetization6270 Před 3 lety +16

      It would be cool

    • @srpenguinbr
      @srpenguinbr Před 3 lety +20

      maybe in the far future I don't doubt it

    • @thatboii3094
      @thatboii3094 Před 3 lety +3

      what ever nature give it ask for physical sacrifice but technology ask mental sacrifice

    • @hecofemonetization6270
      @hecofemonetization6270 Před 3 lety +23

      @@thatboii3094 if we have the opportunity to "fix" those pysicals mistakes then it would be of an great help for everyone, I don't know what you mean by "mental sacrifce".

    • @thatboii3094
      @thatboii3094 Před 3 lety +2

      @@hecofemonetization6270 i mean we need to be content with what nature gives because technology is dangerous (not safe) and some knowledge are ment to be hidden. and it isnt the scientist who are going to pay for,it is the people.

  • @arielfernandezfuenzalida9202

    Well... that backwards orientation reminds me of the deep trench isolation used on Sony sensors to avoid light superposition and to get sharper images 😺 getting better color accuracy

    • @beactivebehappy9894
      @beactivebehappy9894 Před 3 lety +2

      True. We got lucky with better coloured vision/sharper too, than most of the other mammals!! No offence to colour blind folks!!

  • @rockboiler1029
    @rockboiler1029 Před 3 lety +3

    just random speculation but could the backwards retina simply be due to octopuses living in the ocean and humans living on land? In the ocean, the light wouldn't be as strong so more sensitive eyes would be useful whereas land animals are under direct sunlight. As humans we get blinded a lot anyways so if we gave light an even clearer pathway to our receptors wouldn't we just be blinded all the time? I mean I'm sure it's already been thought of but I'm just sticking it out there

  • @victorsvidss
    @victorsvidss Před 3 lety +92

    Maybe the devs will patch these graphics bugs in the next update

    • @chrisgames5201
      @chrisgames5201 Před 3 lety +3

      Nah, I think they'd rather wipe and make a clean slate

    • @ErgoAriZ
      @ErgoAriZ Před 3 lety +2

      I think it will take a while though. From what I heard, right now their priority is to fix the bug mess that is the Space Expansion. 50 years and rockets are still hitting a fucking invisible wall and exploding. Fucking lazy developers

    • @rodrigofreitas3288
      @rodrigofreitas3288 Před 3 lety +5

      These devs are lazy as fuck. The last year DLC was the worst, there's too many glitches and it's extremely pay to win. I'm considering quit this game for good.

    • @toelighters9416
      @toelighters9416 Před 3 lety +1

      @@rodrigofreitas3288 in addition to all that shit the DLC had a virus in it

  • @BobbinMcferry
    @BobbinMcferry Před 3 lety +217

    This is just the first episode in a whole series. Next: feet are kind of stupid/ spines make no sense/why are teeth?

    • @harleyrexun5310
      @harleyrexun5310 Před 3 lety +28

      They do already have a series about this, it has feet and teeth and spines and why they are badly designed

    • @BobbinMcferry
      @BobbinMcferry Před 3 lety +8

      @@harleyrexun5310 just the latest episode in a series then :) all the same.

    • @wica6145
      @wica6145 Před 3 lety +4

      Last episode will be brain kinda useless

    • @jabby6709
      @jabby6709 Před 3 lety +3

      next episode will be "man, the human body is seriously fucked up, why are we built like this?"

  • @DonBeardy
    @DonBeardy Před 3 lety +310

    I, for one, welcome our cephalopod overlords

    • @KvaGram
      @KvaGram Před 3 lety +2

      Please tell me you have read Children of Ruin. If not, please do. :D
      They don't joke about sentient cephalopods. They are truly awesome.

    • @gorilladisco9108
      @gorilladisco9108 Před 3 lety +12

      Cthulhu approved this message.

    • @KvaGram
      @KvaGram Před 3 lety

      @Shasvin Puvanesvaran
      The sequel to Children of Time.

    • @miakiikazu
      @miakiikazu Před 3 lety +1

      are squid kids welcome?

    • @Blurro
      @Blurro Před 3 lety +1

      Gravity falls

  • @justmultidimensional1759
    @justmultidimensional1759 Před 2 lety +4

    I like how every body part is a disaster yet when they come all together they function perfectly.

    • @FumanyuX
      @FumanyuX Před 11 měsíci +2

      more like "good enough... for a while"

    • @cosmodradek
      @cosmodradek Před 8 měsíci

      I don't know what do you mean by "perfect", but the body do not function perfectly at all. One needs not to think a lot to realize that.

  • @AdmiralBison
    @AdmiralBison Před 3 lety +12

    "Eh, good enough...what's for lunch?" ~ Evolution.

  • @vedangnagrawal
    @vedangnagrawal Před 3 lety +91

    So basically, "Mother Nature did us a dirty" is what we say to the Cephalopods

    • @yeshuasage3724
      @yeshuasage3724 Před 2 lety +1

      No it didn’t
      Cephalopods abide in deeper sea where light is scarce so they have more light sensitive eyes to accommodate
      If your ass had cephalopod eyes, you would be blinded by day light

  • @goodoom
    @goodoom Před 3 lety +99

    7:40, Thanks for providing my daily dose of Nightmare

  • @jennyt2253
    @jennyt2253 Před 3 lety +125

    When u told me my pupil is an empty hole I wanted to pass out

    • @ktsp2538
      @ktsp2538 Před 3 lety +10

      Learnt that thanks to a magic school bus book when I was little, they straight up went into this dudes eyes

    • @Network126
      @Network126 Před 3 lety +1

      Don't worry I'll catch you ❤

    • @ramblingbanjo2272
      @ramblingbanjo2272 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Network126 simp

    • @minzuhagenda
      @minzuhagenda Před 3 lety +1

      @@Network126 man wtf

    • @Network126
      @Network126 Před 3 lety +1

      @@minzuhagenda ?

  • @Adrn69_fr
    @Adrn69_fr Před 3 lety +5

    This is legitimately making me realise how terribly built I really am, I can happily say “ i am not a failure, I am just a design disaster!”

  • @hebudileep6177
    @hebudileep6177 Před 3 lety +4

    I think the optical receptors are very sensitive to light. Even with inverted receptors, we can still see. It might have been an evolutionary necessity since otherwise light might be blinding.
    To test, beam light on your eyes with a flashlight or try looking directly at the sun.

  • @Sciencerely
    @Sciencerely Před 3 lety +11

    As a stem cell biologist I can tell that curing eye issues through stem cell transplants is currently a very promising field of research. Eyes, especially the retina are a great target for stem cell transplants as they are very accessible and can be monitored very well. What is quite cool here is that we can simply (in theory) convert cells of the patient's blood into stem cells and then into retinal cells which then can be transplanted (I plan to make a video about that myself!). Although this technology still has to be refined first clinical trials have already be started!

    • @Jaylio
      @Jaylio Před 3 lety +1

      You sure stem cells can cure a deformed eyeball?

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Před 3 lety

      @@Jaylio It's not stated that _all_ eye issues might be curable.
      But theoretically we may be able to grow new un-deformed eyeballs in lab and then transplant those using stem cells to grow the neuronal connections. Theoretically.

  • @Dagreatdudeman
    @Dagreatdudeman Před 3 lety +38

    So when are we going to see Chedder's New and Improved Human?

  • @i_Bequeque
    @i_Bequeque Před 3 lety +41

    As an ophthalmic technician, I can honestly say I LOVED this video. This simplified a lot of questions we get in clinic and in a way that everyone can understand. Definitely recommending this video EVERY chance I get ❤️

    • @danminer5343
      @danminer5343 Před rokem +1

      This video is completely full of lies..

  • @jayjizzle2054
    @jayjizzle2054 Před 3 lety +21

    “Your eyes are all blind and shit”
    TommyInnit

  • @ponkgers1185
    @ponkgers1185 Před 3 lety +6

    7:37 THAT IS SOOO DISTURBING EUGH THAT SCARED ME OH HOLY HELP

  • @cheddar
    @cheddar  Před 3 lety +24

    Anyone have any suggestions for other human body parts that are poorly designed? We will get to them all eventually...

    • @RahulAbhyankar19
      @RahulAbhyankar19 Před 3 lety +5

      The brain, maybe?

    • @itstomatogear6806
      @itstomatogear6806 Před 3 lety +4

      Have you done ears or ✋ hands?

    • @hajivideos9104
      @hajivideos9104 Před 3 lety +1

      Dude, stop complaining about blurry eyesight, you can just have like....glasses
      and I agree with the other person in the comments, we need to stop complaining and start fixing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      *no i dont hate you, its just that i dont think bodies are design disasters, bodies arent even designed anyways*

    • @YonnyJD
      @YonnyJD Před 3 lety +2

      Have you covered the human foot, the human spine, or the human pelvis?

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Před 3 lety +2

      @@hajivideos9104 Well, that's kind of the point of these videos: _If_ bodies were designed, there's no way they could suck as hard as they do. Because no one in position of designing life forms could possibly be _that_ incompetent.

  • @thecolossal4233
    @thecolossal4233 Před 3 lety +96

    Sometimes I wonder how a “perfect human” would look

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK Před 3 lety +30

      Perfect human would need to abandon the flesh and become a machine.

    • @agreenplasticwateringcan
      @agreenplasticwateringcan Před 3 lety +63

      Reject humanity become pc

    • @shapeless_6160
      @shapeless_6160 Před 3 lety +21

      @@agreenplasticwateringcan I reject my humanity JoJo!!!

    • @lifeofi174
      @lifeofi174 Před 3 lety +4

      @NoneOfThe Above Until it becomes aware of the absurdity of living and takes it's own life

    • @requiemforpsyche
      @requiemforpsyche Před 3 lety +7

      @@lifeofi174 that would be a flaw though, making even the perfect organism flawed.

  • @flux202
    @flux202 Před 3 lety +4

    I swear I'm heart broken because of the title. Cause I was just looking at the stars and moon yesterday thinking, "wow my eye can see these perfectly but my phone cant even see a tree in the dark."

  • @jaredsies8257
    @jaredsies8257 Před 3 lety +2

    There's so many inaccuracies in this in regards to human eyes it hurts...

  • @aniano39
    @aniano39 Před 3 lety +11

    Imagine telling an alien species that your retinas are backwards and they say, “Don’t worry fam... we got you!” And proceed to flip your retinas

  • @tofuboy529
    @tofuboy529 Před 3 lety +18

    I felt like my vision started to get blurry while watching this video...

  • @admc8
    @admc8 Před 3 lety +15

    Am I the only one that has a low key crush on Ali Larkin?

    • @darshandhabale143
      @darshandhabale143 Před 3 lety +4

      You aren't alone, I was looking for this comment. I knew I wasn't alone😄😅😆😳😳😳

    • @cormano64
      @cormano64 Před 3 lety +3

      High key, actually.

    • @gutmiko
      @gutmiko Před 3 lety +3

      @@cormano64 she look good even without make up

  • @brandonkwan2842
    @brandonkwan2842 Před 3 lety +85

    next up from cheddar: "Why The Human Is A Design Disaster"
    make it hapn capn

    • @AngrySeal8232
      @AngrySeal8232 Před 3 lety +3

      Because of Tik Tok. The End! I saved u 13 minutes of your life. Thank me later.

  • @WolfWiz99
    @WolfWiz99 Před 3 lety +4

    One day, I might suffer from diabetic retinopathy. I wear glasses but my eyesight is good enough to get by on for the moment.
    Great video and I'm very glad to know the science behind how eyes are able to give animals vision 👍❤️

  • @greenknight8239
    @greenknight8239 Před 3 lety +1

    0:28 that monkey is a whole mood. 🤣

  • @lukemcleavy1902
    @lukemcleavy1902 Před 3 lety +24

    7:37 this made me uneasy lol

  • @eposplaysgames
    @eposplaysgames Před 3 lety +25

    We really need to get a better game dev.

    • @kullingen6909
      @kullingen6909 Před 3 lety +1

      Maybe we can use selective breeding on Humans

    • @gcc2313
      @gcc2313 Před 3 lety

      Halvard Bødalen
      I’m sure gene editing will be used instead.

    • @droobiedraws5532
      @droobiedraws5532 Před 3 lety +1

      let's hope this gets patched in the next update :(

  • @yourself1788
    @yourself1788 Před 3 lety +21

    very reassuring to know that i have long eyes.

  • @juicyburger2726
    @juicyburger2726 Před 3 lety +23

    I mean, the human body wasn’t designed to live past your 30s and much less your 40s, só it just kinda gives up and starts to shut down after some time

    • @tylercooper4405
      @tylercooper4405 Před 3 lety +2

      doubt it

    • @manofgreed7865
      @manofgreed7865 Před 3 lety

      @@tylercooper4405 The Human lifespan used to be 30 years to 35 until through medicine and time our life spans increased a lot.

  • @Paul-oi2wz
    @Paul-oi2wz Před 3 lety +3

    After the episode about why our feet are so bad, I am now convinced ALi Larknir wants us to become cyborg.

  • @adrees
    @adrees Před 3 lety +7

    Good video. I really like how you mentioned that kids don’t play outside as much anymore and lead to greater issues with seeing at a distance. It’s also a part of our neurology. A specific African tribe can see more detail at greater distances because of their environment. Really cool stuff.

    • @mikhan5191
      @mikhan5191 Před 3 lety +1

      Childish video spouting nonsense without any knowledge just to get more views.
      As many commentators have already pointed out, Cephalopod eyes are designed for use underwater so their sensors face directly to the light source to gather as much light as possible in the water.
      In bright Sunlight, such a design would get overloaded or burn out the sensors.
      Hence why Vertebrate eyes are designed to have extra protection from bright sunlight as the light has to bounce off the back of the eye before entering the Receptors. I theorise that there may also be some filtering of this light before it gets to the sensors.
      An analogy would be Telescope types - Reflectors V Refractors.
      As for the various eye ailments that modern humans have, recent research has shown that much of it is linked to our lifestyles & diet. Especially studying indoors!
      So this video is actually crappy disinformation!

    • @adrees
      @adrees Před 3 lety

      @@mikhan5191 Wow! Thanks for the great information. Can you expand upon lifestyle & diet? I would like to know more :)

  • @zmperry1
    @zmperry1 Před 3 lety +35

    Ive heard eyes were developed for the ocean. Once evolution went to land, eyes have been kinda devolving since.

    • @bri1085
      @bri1085 Před 3 lety +2

      I call bs, apart from devolving probably not being a scientific concept, they're thousands of land for them to all to be degenerating at the same time seems very unlikely. I mean ape eyes evolved colour colour vision themselves

    • @ZNotFound
      @ZNotFound Před 3 lety +5

      Technically, all living organisms were developed for the ocean. It doesn't mean every single one devolved because they left the ocean.

    • @bri1085
      @bri1085 Před 3 lety +1

      @@The-Army-Snake phrased it poorly if that's what they meant, pretty sure the idea is more that our eyes are maladapted to seeing through air, which led to some disadvantages when compared to aquatic vertebrates

    • @zmperry1
      @zmperry1 Před 3 lety

      @@The-Army-Snake Yeah. I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe The Cosmos. But it made sense to me. Our bodies have a ton of flaws. Feet problems cuz they were meant for grasping branches when we were primates. Our backs cuz it was made to hold our organs on all fours. Now we're upright and it's all falling down from gravity. Just a bunch of flaws for the sake of thinking good thinks and reaching the candy on the top shelf. I'll take it, though.

  • @jan_ameki
    @jan_ameki Před 3 lety +13

    7:37 That's scary.

    • @3mar00ss6
      @3mar00ss6 Před 3 lety

      no it's not you've been conditioned to be scared of it ~ヾ( ̄⌂ ̄‶)ノyawn

    • @cormano64
      @cormano64 Před 3 lety

      @@3mar00ss6 Thank you for your social diagnosis, Edgy CZcams Psychologist.

    • @3mar00ss6
      @3mar00ss6 Před 3 lety

      @@cormano64 no problem, any day, any time ( ¯◡¯)b

    • @gog_magpie
      @gog_magpie Před 3 lety +2

      Angels: Be not afraid

  • @MsItaliangirl04
    @MsItaliangirl04 Před rokem +1

    "20/20 vision isnt necessary to survive or have a happy life." Unless you live in a rural area that doesn't have adequate or accessbile care. Your sight and ability to do day to day work is crucial for your survival and the community around you. Not all cultures have this privilege.

  • @jefferno08
    @jefferno08 Před 3 lety +4

    "Lets take a look at a squid" proceeds to show a octopus, lol

  • @theawesome1883
    @theawesome1883 Před 3 lety +24

    2019: why the human foot is a design disaster
    2020: why eyes are a design disaster
    2021: why humans are a design disaster
    2022: why mammals are a design disaster
    2023: why animals are a design disaster
    2024: why planets are a design disaster
    2025: why the solar system is a design disaster
    2026: why the universe is a design disaster
    2027: why all matter is a design disaster
    2028: why we should all just give up on life and start over

    • @ZNotFound
      @ZNotFound Před 3 lety +1

      They also made videos for the back, knee, and teeth.

    • @Appletank8
      @Appletank8 Před 3 lety

      time to make our own evolution, with blackjack and hookers (Human revolution intensifies)

  • @mohamadhayajneh1735
    @mohamadhayajneh1735 Před 3 lety +17

    Maybe the retina is too sensitive to light and being backward is to filter out light.
    But with squids, the light underwater might less bright. So they need there retina to be not backward :P

    • @caldoreo
      @caldoreo Před 3 lety

      Big brain

    • @caldoreo
      @caldoreo Před 3 lety +1

      I actually think this is very logical

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 Před 3 lety

      Adding a filter would work better.
      You are simply using special pleading to keep your starting conclusion.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 Před 3 lety

      @@anomalousboreoeutherian7683
      Maybe I am the Queen of England slumming it on youtube.
      And there is no "correct way".
      Don't start with a conclusion.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 Před 3 lety

      @@anomalousboreoeutherian7683
      The original comment is an attempt to explain an aspect of the eye in terms of a designer.
      As in maybe the designer did it that way for this reason.
      That post is starting with the conclusion that we were designed.

  • @user-pz6kq2tv9m
    @user-pz6kq2tv9m Před 3 lety +46

    Good thing we live in a world where LASIK surgery is a thing now.

    • @sayonara288
      @sayonara288 Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah just a 1 in a 100 chance you’ll be blind for the rest of your life

    • @agme8045
      @agme8045 Před 3 lety +3

      @@sayonara288 if that stat was real I doubt most people would even think of having the surgery

    • @planetphatness
      @planetphatness Před 3 lety +1

      My mom sees halos around lights at night because of lasik, but it’s a trade off for being glasses free.

    • @onebennyboi5257
      @onebennyboi5257 Před 3 lety

      @@planetphatness i think she might be seeing god

    • @Eman1900O
      @Eman1900O Před 3 lety

      @@sayonara288 the chances of going blind by LASIK are estimated to be close to 1 in 5 million. 1 in 100 chance? Not even close!

  • @travisshooks7374
    @travisshooks7374 Před 3 lety +2

    What body part do we hav that doesn’t have a bunch of issues? Just because we haven’t figured out why something isn’t the way it is doesn’t mean it’s bad design. How dare our eyes not evolve for a life inside on a screen all day.

  • @samipso
    @samipso Před 3 lety +1

    My teacher always said “it’s working” is hardly a reason to say a project was complete. I guess what he said was true.
    That teaches me I’m not the only person just winging it.

  • @qureius494
    @qureius494 Před 3 lety +16

    I'm watching this with my eyes lol!

  • @photelegy
    @photelegy Před 3 lety +5

    5:28
    Why exactly does the backwards retina make the shortsightedness worse?

    • @kirknay
      @kirknay Před 3 lety +6

      It's a separate problem. The backwards retina means much lower resolution or sensitivity, with increased blood vessels blocking light.

    • @TheAkashicTraveller
      @TheAkashicTraveller Před 3 lety

      @@kirknay If they way many animals evolved a mirror to give a second light pass through the retina is any indication I'd say sensitivity is a definite issue.

    • @kirknay
      @kirknay Před 3 lety

      @@TheAkashicTraveller if I remember correctly, that mirror is specifically for night vision. It actually ends up being somewhat of a problem for animals that are not nocturnal.

  • @dhairyarathore1382
    @dhairyarathore1382 Před 3 lety +20

    I think you should make a video on " Why Mammary Gland or Brest is a design disaster"..!!!

    • @kellykbartram8569
      @kellykbartram8569 Před 3 lety +3

      Brest is a municipality in France. 🇫🇷

    • @AvrahamYairStern
      @AvrahamYairStern Před 3 lety +1

      @@kellykbartram8569 lol you're not wrong

    • @faustin289
      @faustin289 Před 3 lety

      Yeah. These things were designed to be perfect only before they are needed.

  • @axiolot5857
    @axiolot5857 Před 3 lety +1

    2:03 so fun fact, the kinda static you see when your close your eyes comes from exactly that, its connections being made

  • @holasoyd0ra136
    @holasoyd0ra136 Před 3 lety +1

    Ironically, many people prefer people with glasses over people without glasses which contributes to our eye sight not being the greatest.
    Correct me if I’m wrong tho.

  • @davidmaloney1339
    @davidmaloney1339 Před 3 lety +16

    God: only I can design something as complex as the human eye.
    Science: pretty shit design, let's see where you went wrong.

    • @Jeff015
      @Jeff015 Před 3 lety

      oh no they've gone too far again
      time to "Boom"

  • @auds9738
    @auds9738 Před 3 lety +6

    Evolution isnt about "survival of the fittest", it's about "survival of the good enough". Which is why we ended up with all these flaws. Tough luck, I guess :p

  • @shinyprisma6085
    @shinyprisma6085 Před 3 lety +8

    can yall just turn me into a robot already?

    • @DMack6464
      @DMack6464 Před 3 lety

      *insert matrix related comment here*

  • @Kj16V
    @Kj16V Před 3 lety +2

    Religious people: "The eye is proof of intelligent design. Just look how perfect it is!"
    Cheddar: "Erm, well actually..."

  • @Scream_Lord
    @Scream_Lord Před 3 lety +1

    Fun Fact: The the Halo series this issue was addressed in lore about the SPARTAN Programs. One of the augmentation procedures is to reverse the retinas and place the ocular nerve behind it.

  • @juanjalapeno3765
    @juanjalapeno3765 Před 3 lety +3

    “Honey, I can’t read that sign over there”
    “That’s alright, you got that ca- I mean big brain iq”

  • @PUSATGAMING225
    @PUSATGAMING225 Před 3 lety +3

    Alternative title "why you must be grateful having a pair of eyes..."

  • @matchalatte5415
    @matchalatte5415 Před 3 lety +4

    We all know that photoshop can fix any design problem. Now all we need is a reality warping editor

  • @verycleanhands1482
    @verycleanhands1482 Před 3 lety +1

    2:34/7:47 Scientists do have working hypotheses for why our retinas are set up backwards. Special cells in the retina act like tiny fiber optic cables that direct light to photoreceptors, and theres evidence that these cells can favor different wavelengths of light so that photoreceptors near this fiber optic cell primarily receive a specific wavelength. This probably enhances clarity and color vision, since forward-facing retinas would deal with more "noise" from daylight. Squid don't worry about this since they live in water and thus live with lower light intensity.

  • @shauryapatil8751
    @shauryapatil8751 Před 3 lety +1

    The eyes are not an engineering disaster. Taking proper care of eyes can prevent any problem one may face in the future

  • @forthdimension686
    @forthdimension686 Před 3 lety +5

    Human reproductive system is a design disaster. Eg: Erectile dysfunction, Uterus sits on on top of the bladder vs bladder on top of uterus, difficulty controlling urine and stool as we age, Very labor intensive birthing process in comparison with other animals.

  • @newbiegaming6090
    @newbiegaming6090 Před 3 lety +10

    "Why the human eye is a design disaster?"
    Pretty simple: it was not designed.
    Edit: I'll also add: nothing in nature ever was.

    • @PUSATGAMING225
      @PUSATGAMING225 Před 3 lety

      can you prove it ?

    • @kev-dm5388
      @kev-dm5388 Před 3 lety +2

      That's like saying car is not designed because it can cause car accident

    • @fca003
      @fca003 Před 3 lety +5

      When nature has a problem it doesn't fix it. It just makes it more and more complex until somehow it eventually works.
      Humans design things to be efficient. Nature doesn't care about efficiency. Things need to be good enough to live until you can reproduce.
      If God exists, he definitively doesn't think like a human being. It's more like a neural network.

    • @Nakia11798
      @Nakia11798 Před 3 lety

      Did you not watch the video?

    • @tjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtj
      @tjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtj Před 3 lety +1

      Well...
      Fibonacci says otherwise...
      (True story)

  • @sanbetski
    @sanbetski Před 3 lety +6

    7:43 creepy AF

  • @mmsnider789
    @mmsnider789 Před 3 lety

    Hey, ophthalmologist here. The video was fun. There are definitely some points that we should probably clarify. Diabetic retinopathy is pronounced retin-ah-pathy. We don’t burn the new vessels because they get in the way of seeing, we burn them because they leak, bleed, and undergo fibrosis. The leakage causes the retina to swell, which disrupts its functioning. The bleeding can actually block light, but it would likely be a problem even if the retina were facing the logical direction..it’s hard to say because I don’t think cephalopods live long enough to develop diabetes...I don’t even know if they develop diabetes? Anyway, the fibrosis of these vessels causes retinal detachments. Not all detachments are caused by diabetes, but a certain subset are. Myopia is pronounced exactly as it is spelled unlike retinopathy (curse you English language). My-o-pia. I don’t think the backwards retina is involved there either. Really, most animals that spend a lot of time in the dark develop bigger eyes. In humans, the thought is that we are somehow chronically flexing our lenses to see up close which causes a stress response on the peripheral retina. This stress response results in excessive eye growth. People have tried paralyzing the muscle that flexes the lens to prevent this, and it does prevent eye growth as long as the muscle is paralyzed. Cephalopods never left their original environment, so it’s unclear if their eyes would shrink if kept in constant sunlight...I guess that would be weird. Anyway, I agree the engineering is backwards, but I would argue that human eye disease is largely an unrelated issue.

  • @Beregorn88
    @Beregorn88 Před 3 lety +1

    Not only our retinas are backward, but also most of our CCD are built that way!

  • @temistogen
    @temistogen Před 3 lety +8

    Cheddar taking out every single organ and telling us that we are all disasters and failures

    • @huzzzer6083
      @huzzzer6083 Před 3 lety

      Pretty much

    • @LickMyRainbow77
      @LickMyRainbow77 Před 3 lety

      At least we’re not as bad as horses

    • @cheddar
      @cheddar  Před 3 lety +1

      Any suggestions?

    • @vibhamahanth2439
      @vibhamahanth2439 Před 3 lety

      @@cheddar how bout the digestive system ? i bet there's a video there

    • @temistogen
      @temistogen Před 3 lety

      @@cheddar maybe nails?Why do males have nipples?Or better yet why do we have adams apple?

  • @bhuvaneshs.k638
    @bhuvaneshs.k638 Před 3 lety +5

    Good content
    Eyes example of convergent evolution

  • @MiguelAngel-zu1ke
    @MiguelAngel-zu1ke Před 3 lety +19

    Has anyone noticed that Nathan looks like Luther from the Umbrella Academy? 👀

  • @jakesteampson7043
    @jakesteampson7043 Před 3 lety

    I'm assuming that because cephalopods live deep underwater they need to get as much light as possible to hit the retina, so they're the "right way around"
    While our retinas are backwards to limit all the light the bright ball of plasma in the sky produces

  • @robertsmart5600
    @robertsmart5600 Před 3 lety

    If you shine more light on the white page of the book you are reading your iris will make your pupil smaller so your eye will have a longer distance when things appear in focus (depth of field) even though your lens is no longer able to adjust by becoming stiffer as you age.

  • @geobla6600
    @geobla6600 Před 3 lety +4

    Well , perhaps you should review current research which shows that this supposed backwards retina or flaw which
    has been flouted as a poor design is in actuality optimal for allowing light and clarity . In fact , if the retina was mutated
    and wired in the reverse as many claim it should , then nobody would have good vision. Most if not all of the eye diseases mentioned are the results of evolutionary genetic mutations or entropy.

  • @_joshua_g59_90
    @_joshua_g59_90 Před 3 lety +3

    This video explains how glasses work without explaining how glasses work.

  • @vxzcvz
    @vxzcvz Před 3 lety +16

    next episode, "Why The Human Brain Is A Design Disaster - Cheddar Explains"

  • @llamasama4458
    @llamasama4458 Před 3 lety +1

    Love the idea of cephalopods rolling up on me. I imagined octopuses pulling up in a car and yelling at me like "Yo homie, the fucks wrong with your eyes?"

  • @externity9569
    @externity9569 Před rokem +1

    2:40 Probably cuz the sun would literally burn our eyes out if they were made the other way, to point blank absorb light.
    We probably need that travel and less direct light to protect our eyes and make them last longer.

  • @Aspano003
    @Aspano003 Před 3 lety +3

    Eyes are an engineering marvel. Actually every aspect of life’s functionality is miraculous. Any minor flaws are petty and shallow.

  • @yashgulave8366
    @yashgulave8366 Před 3 lety +3

    Anything:
    Literally Anything: *exists*
    Cheddar: "This is a design disaster"
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @tonyzed6831
    @tonyzed6831 Před 3 lety +3

    I love that creationists use the eye as an example of a perfect design that could only be achieved by God (and yep... some of them wear glasses).

  • @ragadoodle
    @ragadoodle Před 3 lety +1

    The reason may be that the saturation or the amount of photons making contact with the receptor can cause them to degrade faster over time, so it may be defensive

  • @Fionacle
    @Fionacle Před 3 lety +2

    This has been super cool! Could you possibly explain why I have to put extra effort into not going cross-eyes when I look at something up-close?