Bionic eye restores sight to the blind

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Tacc
Isn't there some condition where a person is unable to consciously "see" things, but their brain continues to process the information being recieved from the eyes and thus they operate as if they can see?

Yep, there is.
A phenomenon called Blindsight.
The person think it is blind (and is for most means),
If you ask him/her about the object in her blind field of view (often the blindness is onnly onesided) he/she will answer that he/she doesn´t see them.
But if you for example ask him//her to grab or touch a certain object wihthin the blind field of view, he/she will correctly do so (and will be unable to explain how he/she has done it).

The problem very pßrobably stems from a severation of neural connections to the visual association cortex, thus making the person unable to, as you already said, consciously see objects. But as the connections between the visual system and other parts of the brain (for example the motor cortex) are still intact, the person is still able to perform certain task that require visual input, as if she isn´t blind.


Oh and for the Thread Tpic:
Cyber Eyes

[Provost Harrison]

If I get such an implant, I want lasers fitted in mine...

[Proteus_MST]

And show everyone that you are special?

Na, I rather want mine to look like normal eyes but fitted with certain additions not visible to the outer side, like several modes of vision (IR, low light, UV and polarization of light at least) and maybe a smartgun link, making a targeting cross appear in my field of vision as soon as I take any weapon equipped for this in my hands.

[Provost Harrison]

Powerful lasers, enough to vapourise people if they annoy me...

[Proteus_MST]

O.K., that would make sense.

Although it is a pity, that this would only work outside of the internet. Looks to me like the internet would make a more target rich environment for the laser

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, wouldn't that be great, I could fire them into the monitor and they would come back out at the correct monitor. Alas all that would really happen is I'd blow up my monitor

[RGBVideo]

pretty much everything in humans can be artificially produced except nerve cells with enough $$$. this isn't exactly breaking news.

[The Mad Monk]

Yes it is.

[BlackCat]

Wonder why they want to test it in churches.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by VJ
pretty much everything in humans can be artificially produced except nerve cells with enough $$$. this isn't exactly breaking news.

They can, too,
but not with todays technology

The problem with the retina is, that you need milions of sensors on a very small surface to replicate the human retina and have to take care that they stimulate the right parts of the optic nerve.
So even an artificial retina that allows blind people to recognize faces is a great archivement.

[Odin]

How long before certain crazies start calling curing blindness "cultural genocide of the blind culture"? I rember some identity politics nuts going batsh*t over cochlear implants for the deaf for that reason.

[RGBVideo]

is a great archivement

sure it is

my point is that it was predictable, inevitable. Just like 1GHz PC's were known to be inevitable in the early 80s for those who didn't lack vision (not talking about the literal one now, mind you).

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by VJ
pretty much everything in humans can be artificially produced except nerve cells with enough $$$. this isn't exactly breaking news.

You're very wrong.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Odin
How long before certain crazies start calling curing blindness "cultural genocide of the blind culture"? I rember some identity politics nuts going batsh*t over cochlear implants for the deaf for that reason.

Pretty fast I guess. I wouldn't mind doing some on those that tries to prevent those hearing implants .

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You're very wrong.

and you are a worthless teenager parasite who doesn't know jack **** about anything outside your very narrow living environment paid and upkept by your daddy but insists on pretending to be an expert on everything -- but we all knew that already, didn't we?

hint: "can" does not equal "has been"