Summary
All
of this has served to indicate some of how a set of sensing hardware which has
been the result of evolutionary development can be highly optimized, and operate
in spite of some design problems. The mechanoreceptors have adapted to achieve
excellent use of the hands, the hearing system has developed excellent
capabilities for resolving events in the frequency and time domain, and the
vision system uses some sophisticated image processing to overcome the
positioning of the connection of the optic nerve.