[optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
- From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:04:23 -0500
Navy Seals are using a variant of this device, and have been for a few years
after 9/11. It was initially developed in Israel, and I have had the
fortune to know both private funders of the effort and a few researchers on
it. Unfortunately, at the time I was asked to participate as a guinea pig,
I was trying to keep the job I knew even then I would eventually lose post
merger--now I regret not having participated if only on the grounds of
unabated curiosity. (sad sheepish expression)
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lerae Olesen" <lerae@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:57 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
> I'm not saying I wouldn't try to use this device if given the opportunity,
> I'm only saying I have no idea what to expect. I, also, wonder about it's
> practicality, although I'm sure people down through the ages have wondered
> about the practicality of many new inventions--cars or telephones, just to
> name two of the things we all take for granted now.
> Thanks to Carolyn for sharing this information with all of us.
> Lerae
> (pronounced Le rae)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:38 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
>
>
>>I would do it in a heartbeat if only out of curiosity. I believe I could
>> learn to interpolate the data from that device just as I've learned to
>> interpolate visual data projected onto my finger with the Optacon. The
>> brain is flexible, we human user's of that organ have intellectual
>> capacities, with those we can learn new things, just as a sighted person
>> adventitiously blinded learns to use their tactual sensorum more
>> effectively
>> to read braille if they were an eager learner before and motivated to the
>> desire to read again, and just as we congenitally blinded braille readers
>> learned to use the unfamiliar print information encoding system, so we
>> have
>> the potential to learn to extract useful information from this Adaptive
>> Technological tool. To give up with insufficient data, or suspect that
>> one
>> can't do something with no training and experience under one's belt is to
>> accept the role of Loser at the outset!
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lerae Olesen" <lerae@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:26 AM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks, Rachel for bringing up that point. Those mentioned in the
>>> article
>>> had lost vision, even having artificial eyes, the brain still knew what
>>> seeing had been like. I think it would be scary to try it, having never
>>> had
>>> any vision,not a speck.
>>> I can't even imagine.
>>> Lerae
>>> (pronounced Le rae)
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Rachel" <rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:17 AM
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
>>>
>>>
>>>> My guess is that anyone who is congenitally blind or who was born
>>>> totally blind would not benefit at all from this device. Anyone have
>>>> any thoughts on this?
>>>> Rachel
>>>>
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