[optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
- From: "Suzanne Erb" <suzerb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:10:40 -0400
Nick,
Alas, alack! It's sad to think of the things we forego in order to try to
keep jobs we are destined to lose, anyway. That would have been an
intriguing experience, indeed. I hope you have a chance to participate in
work of particular interest.
Suzanne
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
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
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From: "Lerae Olesen" <lerae@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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