DBT
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The speed of light reaching the eyes in delayed time is the theory being contested. The information that the brain acquires remains the same whether we see in real time or not.This is true. The information is conveyed to the visual cortex if the light is at the eye when the light is turned on, but this does not answer the question as to whether we see in delayed or real time.You enter a dark room where you see nothing until the light is turned on, reflects from all the objects in the room, acquired by the eyes and the information conveyed to the visual context, processed and presented as sight, you see what is in the room.
The speed of light is finite, as is the processing of the information the brain acquires from its senses prior to the conscious experience of seeing, hearing pressure waves, etc, being formed.
You watch someone chopping wood in the distance, you see the axe rise and fall, but the sound comes later because light is faster than pressure waves through the air.
Depends on what is meant by 'delayed time.' Time is not delayed. The speed of light is not delayed, it arrives precisely according to its speed and distance travelled, where a supernova ten light years away may have just exploded, but we don't get to see the event for ten years.