Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered Retinal Nanoantennae

Re:Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered... by hateful on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:40PM (#19315534)

What we filter out and don't see is just as important as what we do. If we could see all wavelengths, we'd have just noise.

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Re:Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered... by chrisweekly on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:20PM (#19315717)

I agree w/ your first sentence.

But if we could "see all wavelengths", for any reasonable definition of "see", that would imply our eyes and brains had evolved to distinguish visual signal from noise.

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Re:Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered... by dflock on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:18PM (#19315711)

Well, if you just switched that ability on, then yes. But if you grew up seeing more/all wavelengths, then presumably your brain might learn to use that information in a useful way?

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