h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Good Bod. Just got it. Rofl indeed, Mr Recumbent.
Sorry, it's a Friday and my brain's gone home early again.

Feel a bit woozy after reading this lot, and a bit cross eyed.
Think you should consider the dyslexia phenomenon.
Surely the eye is an extension of the brain and as such cannot be differentiated as part of seeing. Might be convenient for us to model the process, but I have'nt heard of a wiring loom to replace the optic nerve bundle. Yet.
Have you?

No but they are working on microchips implanted in the eye to stimulate the brain & simulate sight for those with a damaged retina.

Yeah..but that ain't the energy transfer from the retina to the cortex. Is it?

Gnomon -- ever read the Ant & Bee books for children? They are so bad they are almost cult-worthy. And and Bee go down the road and meet a Cat, a Dog, an Elf, a Fly, a G.. I can't remember what, but they come back in another book and meet an alphabetical list of four-letter things. The illustrations match the pedestrian conception.

Yes I know the kind of bag-pudding but how do you get it to stand still while you carve it?

Now Bagpuss, there was a character.

Dunno if it's been mentioned but this guy did an experiment to test how the brain inverted the perceived image - he donned a pair of specs/cameras that flipped the image so everything he saw was upside down.

After a few days he could cope with it as normal and was perceiving images as the right way up.

When he took them off the brain flipped back really quickly, suggesting that visual compensation can be learned.

Much like cross-eyed people see normally.

Whoops. It was mentioned.

sorry.

eu bloody reka!

Back to the microchips..

I think some work has been done using a camera & wiring directly into the visual cortex. I believe subjects have been able to make some visual interpretation of the stimulation.

really...where? when?

This is the sort of thing:

http://www.dobelle.com/asaio1.html