First, one possible point of agreement, I’m not arguing about retina here 
Now, V1
Okay well, I do.
I don’t know of a detailed explanation for it. Do you know any ?
I’m not arguing that. To the contrary 
But I don’t take it as an explanation per se. I’m simply viewing this as further evidence of same kind of surprising things which we need to get clues into.
There are also experiments in which we wire retinal input to other parts of cortex and they would form the same… The “anomaly”/“surprise” is, to me, the fact that cortex does that. Consistently. Whether in V1 or anywhere else. Anywhere to which we’d submit visual input.
some of my initial questions leading to that topic:
Would you object to that ?
Or is this simply a misunderstanding, us debating this now ?
The very beginning… ain’t that V1 ?
(Note that if what you’re saying after all, is simply that I seem to spend too much time fiddling with retina concerns… then I’d agree with you. Quite entirely. But I’m cursed with that very peculiar need to spend lots of time on the details)