RE: “A day in the future”: blind people, now with better vision than you
Unfortunately, this conversation is only science fiction, and will only be science fiction. Not because we can't develop the technology, but because we have no understanding of what we are seeing, or what are brains are doing with that information.
Take for example people who see ghosts or angels. Since modern science doesn't accept these as real phenomena, then the man-made eyes will not see these. And the creators of these eyes will not know how much they have failed.
For a real, and more prevalent example, people who see auras. Although it is not strictly an eye thing, affects to the eyes effect the seeing of auras.
People "see" into the past or the future, and this is also associated with the eyes.
And the worst one of all. Laughter. Our eyes see what is funny. Studying blind people, you will notice that they giggle and don't really laugh.
Of course, right now, what I say may seem WAaaaaaay out there, but it will be common knowledge soon. And thus, the above conversation will not be happening. However, we will gain the ability to regenerate limbs and body parts and the actual healing of the body.
I don't understand why you say that conversation will never happen and later say "we will gain the ability to regenerate limbs and body parts and the actual healing of the body" . So you don't think bionic eyes will be real, but you do believe in genetic engineering?
I don't understand what ghost have to do with this?
This is about seeing physical things, not energy fields (ghosts, if real, would be energy fields) that we still don't know if they actually exist or not.
Auras? I am not sure about that. And again, auras has nothing to do with these examples.
I am talking about using technology to in simply words, create a new generation of eyes, far better than our biological ones. I am not talking about spiritual or supernatural things.
About laugh, well, there are jokes you can simply hear and still laugh. Of course blind people wouldn't be able to appreciate a lot of humor, but if for example they hear a joke on a podcast, they can laugh as anyone else.
I appreciate your comment pal!
Since you are not immersed in the world of woo-woo, you do not understand the implications of losing 90% of what you see, so that you can gain... IR vision? Telescopic sight?
The world is becoming more spiritual. Materialsm is toast; animism will be shown to be much more accurate. So, by the time we get to making cyborg eyes, we will be at the level of understanding much more of what our eyes actually see (such that replacement will seem silly) and we will also have the medical science of actually healing the body.
In regenerating limbs, I am not talking about genetic engineering, I am talking about communicating with the body and restarting the process that developed the limb in the first place. In sci-fi language, all the machinery is still there, its just no one knows what it does or where they on/off switch is.
That’s would be great but I am not sure that is not as simple as it sounds. But if we ever achieve that I would be happy as well!