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Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by erikpukinskis on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:25PM (#20835489)
The eyes don’t deliver imagery at all. They deliver a signal that’s more like a million track audio recording. It doesn’t become imagery until interpreted by the brain.

If you hooked a camera up to a newborn’s ears and microphones to their eyes, the baby would learn to see imagery though their ears and hear sounds through their optic nerve.

The data quality would be horrible, but they’d still see and hear.

It’s the structure of the world (and our relationship to it) that creates meaning in our minds, not the structure of our brain. Although our brain is structured to get clearer signals through certain parts.

Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by whatshisface on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:01PM (#20835636)
>They deliver a signal that’s more like a million track audio recording. It doesn’t become imagery until interpreted by the brain.

For many on HN, that's the way they are used to thinking of imagery, as a big array containing information about how strongly a grid of sensors was stimulated.

Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by erikpukinskis on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:31PM (#20848006)
It’s not a grid.
Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by m463 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:59PM (#20835881)
I always thought the brain's visual processing was straightforward until I saw a pinwheel illusion at a museum once.

Here are some examples to try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam3-uyj0_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyEIAfyXx8