When you rub your eyes, you can 'see' phosphenes that look like sparks. This phenomenon provides support for which of the following?

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The phenomenon of seeing phosphenes when rubbing your eyes supports the doctrine of specific nerve energies, which states that different sensory qualities are determined by the specific nerves that are stimulated, rather than the nature of the stimulus itself. In this case, the act of rubbing your eyes stimulates the nerves responsible for vision, causing phosphenes to be perceived. Weber's law and signal detection theory are both related to the ability to detect differences in stimuli, but do not relate directly to the perception of phosphenes. Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense is experienced as if by another sense, and is not applicable to the phenomenon of seeing phosphenes when rubbing one's eyes.

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