> merriam webster: to perceive by the eye [1]
> perceived ... attained awareness
Perception is part of the definition you provided. How do you come to call it not relevant now?
Does the eye of a dead person see anything? Is it like a camera that clicks in a forrest with no-one to hear?
The notion of eye mentioned in the definitions you quoted is to distinguish "see" from other senses such as "hear" or "taste." Even at a physical level, the eye alone is little like a camera. It has an uneven distribution of light sensors with spaces without coverage (optical nerve).
"The retina is actually a piece of the brain that has grown into the eye and processes neural signals when it detects light. Ganglion cells carry information from the retina to the higher brain centers; other nerve cells within the retina perform the first stages of analysis of the visual world. The axons of the retinal ganglion cells, with the support of other types of cells, form the optic nerve and carry these signals to the brain."
"Investigators have known for decades that there are 10 to 15 ganglion cell types in the retina that are adapted for picking up different movements and then work together to send a full picture to the brain. The study estimated the amount of information that is carried to the brain by seven of these ganglion cell types."