At first glance, the fact that the human #eye muscles must continuously exert to remain focused on a given distance seems like a pretty serious flaw.
In your typical man-made #optical system like a camera, mechanical force is needed to *change* focal length, but if no force is applied then it stays at whatever focal length it was previously at.
But this mechanism is slower and has more moving parts than the human eye, so perhaps that's why?
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