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Secrets of Sight

Posted by michael on from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.

ephraim writes: "A group of scientists has discovered that the secret to sight involves just 10-12 "output channels" between the eye and the brain. One of the researchers explains that "Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints, edges in space and time." MSNBC has the story here. This appears to be the first of many steps towards creating a bionic eye."

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  1. What about the bunny? by gurgi · · Score: 2

    I am all for resurch like this, and love to eat meat, but I do not like to think how they measured the nerve impulses behind the eye in a living bunny... bunnys are just to cute to be used in this way.

  2. Would this be more like... by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 2

    This
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    That

    Dancin Santa