It makes me so sad to think of not seeing color - to see this man surrounded by so many beautiful ad vibrant things -and know he doesn't experience the joy of it at all. I know he, having no idea what he is missing, cannot feel that bad about it - he knows the world he knows - but I feel pain thinking if it.
@magegirl8 just feel relief thinking that colors actually don't exist as they're a psycovisual phenomena;
as a major example take magenta, which only purpose is to "fill the gap" between the lower and upper bound in the visible frequency spectrum. So the fact that we call certain colors "warm" and others "cold" is just because of how they're mapped in our mind. I could, say, invent a new color to see a bit of infrared (if i was able to).
@salvosuper All of experience is like that, subjective, existing as we know it only through the filters of our own minds. Might as well turn to Buddhism. After all, there are some models in string theory that suggest that we are only holographs of another dimension, comparable to Plato's shadows. AKA we might not be "real".
But color is still something valuable, regardless of how we come to being able to sense it the way we do.
@magegirl8@magegirl8 You mean Plato's Cave?. Is it possible? I really wish there was a reality, a reality independent of human senses.
Damn body! Seriously, will there be someone really healthy? Our biological body always has a flaw. The human body limits us and it's vulnerable like porcelain.
I imagine a future where our biological bodies can be replaced by techno-bodies (cyborgs). 0% failures, 0% imperfection. There would be no handicapped. :)
@salvosuper This has got to be possible somehow. There has got to be some sort of exercise that would give a richer experience of colors like those found in the psychedelic experience. This would be an interesting area of study.
freakin awesome
MsOhayoOhio 6 days ago
I'm sure there will eventually be surgery available for the guy, until then this is a great idea.
andy7666 3 weeks ago
fucking scary
crackrockstdy89 3 months ago
i saw niel harbisson today!!! got to talk to him :D
TheViktormartin 3 months ago
he can know the color we persieve with that device but can't accually exspeience it as we do.
it's a step but not the hardest thing really
lovetownsend 10 months ago
instead of musical notes cant the guy just hear "Green", "red", "blue" every time he points to some thing?
BloodStone20 1 year ago
@BloodStone20 Uhhm, there's more colors than there's names of colors dude..
Dalroc 11 months ago
@BloodStone20
That's ridiculous!
Nilguiri 1 month ago
It makes me so sad to think of not seeing color - to see this man surrounded by so many beautiful ad vibrant things -and know he doesn't experience the joy of it at all. I know he, having no idea what he is missing, cannot feel that bad about it - he knows the world he knows - but I feel pain thinking if it.
magegirl8 1 year ago 7
@magegirl8 just feel relief thinking that colors actually don't exist as they're a psycovisual phenomena;
as a major example take magenta, which only purpose is to "fill the gap" between the lower and upper bound in the visible frequency spectrum. So the fact that we call certain colors "warm" and others "cold" is just because of how they're mapped in our mind. I could, say, invent a new color to see a bit of infrared (if i was able to).
salvosuper 11 months ago
@salvosuper All of experience is like that, subjective, existing as we know it only through the filters of our own minds. Might as well turn to Buddhism. After all, there are some models in string theory that suggest that we are only holographs of another dimension, comparable to Plato's shadows. AKA we might not be "real".
But color is still something valuable, regardless of how we come to being able to sense it the way we do.
magegirl8 11 months ago
@magegirl8 i agree with you :)
salvosuper 11 months ago
@magegirl8 @magegirl8 You mean Plato's Cave?. Is it possible? I really wish there was a reality, a reality independent of human senses.
Damn body! Seriously, will there be someone really healthy? Our biological body always has a flaw. The human body limits us and it's vulnerable like porcelain.
I imagine a future where our biological bodies can be replaced by techno-bodies (cyborgs). 0% failures, 0% imperfection. There would be no handicapped. :)
Sorry for my horrible english. LOL
Kurayasibux 7 months ago
@salvosuper This has got to be possible somehow. There has got to be some sort of exercise that would give a richer experience of colors like those found in the psychedelic experience. This would be an interesting area of study.
Savantrick 2 weeks ago