%0 Journal Article %T Vision, an Optical User Interface %A Jan Koenderink %J Perception %@ 1468-4233 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0301006619853758 %X I present a personal account of visual awareness, from a biological, that is, ethological and evolutionary perspective. The facts I select are mainly phenomenological, with a sprinkle of psychophysics, and a snuff of brain theory. This is because I consider visual awareness to be a phenomenological brute fact that has no equivalent in either physiology or cognitive science. My emphasis is on bare fundamentals and integration. I primarily aim at academic understanding %K vision %K awareness %K user interface %K Gestalt %K psychogenesis %K local sign %K scale-space %K shape from X %K Umwelt %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0301006619853758